233 examples of savor in sentences

He will make due use of spontaneous impulse; but that this may be wise and disciplined, he will form the habit of curiosity about words, their stations, their savor, their aptitudes, their limitations, their outspokenness, their reticences, their affinities and antipathies.

Heathen (heath-dweller), pagan (peasant), and demon (a divinity) had in themselves no iniquitous savor until early Christians formed their opinion of the people inaccessible to them and the spirits incompatible with the unity of the Godhead.

their perfume, and the LETTERS OF CHARLES LAMB to retain their old sweet savor, when "Sartor Resartus" has about as many readers as Bulwer's "Artificial Changeling," and nine tenths even of "Don Juan" lie darkening under the same deep dust that covers the rarely troubled pages of the "Secchia Rapita.

Charles Lamb was blessed with an intellectual palate as fine as Keats's, and could enjoy the savor of a book (or of that dainty, "in the whole mundus edibilis the most delicate," Roast Pig, for that matter) without pragmatically asking, as the king did of the apple in the dumpling, "how the devil it got there."

"Young hopes, and love's delightful dreams," savor neither of Burns nor Quarles; they seem more like shreds of many a modern sentimental sonnet.

"Does it not savor of thoughtlessness to bestow so much where he can know so little?"

Taste N. taste, flavor, gust, gusto, savor; gout, relish; sapor^, sapidity^; twang, smack, smatch^; aftertaste, tang.

V. taste, savor, smatch^, smack, flavor, twang; tickle the palate &c (savory) 394; smack the lips.

" It came into his mind that Mrs. Hamilton was abundantly able to help them, but she did not know his mother, and it would savor of presumption for him to ask so great a favor.

His manner had a distinct savor of patronage.

Though he had agreed, 'Frisco Kid did not quite like it, for it still seemed to savor of desertion.

Its style is not old enough to have become antiquated, while yet it possesses much of the savor and raciness of age.

The savor was gone out of everything.

He would not willingly utter a word which would savor of unkindness towards him.

I find, despite my years in the wilderness, that I enjoy a well spread board, and that bits of decoration appeal to me; in truth, give an added savor to the viands.

And I have heard there is a spirit in you, Mr. Lennox, which is almost French, a kindred touch, a Gallic salt and savor, so to speak.

Indeed, unless the atmosphere I breathe is rendered slightly narcotic by the smoke of Cabañas and slightly stimulating by the savor of heeltaps,excuse the technical term,I find myself debilitated to a degree.

" "Ay, sir," spake my lady, "it hath a piquant savor I have not met before.

But they easily found ways to evade the rule and enjoy the savor of forbidden fruit.

I'm offmethinks I smell the long-lost savor; Hail, platter sound!

Neither he nor his wife died at the home they had made so happy with the beauty and savor of their virtues.

Moses, Job, David, and Isaiah give us utterances that savor of this belief; but they leave us in the dark in reference to its influence upon their lives.

It is a snug and cozy little Saratoga among the hills of Yorkshire, away from the smoke, soot and savor of the great manufacturing centres.

And wait you not for death, according to the counsel of Solon, to be named happy, if you are permitted fellowship with a man of rich mind, whose individual savor you always finely perceive, and never more than finely,who yields you the perpetual sense of community, and never of confusion, with your own spirit.

We have been accustomed to consider him the salt of things so long that they must lose their savor without his to season them.

233 examples of  savor  in sentences