Cornish savoured his steaming beef pie, with sage.

Her words savoured a little of obscurity, and her countenance was rather repulsive.

And the king, who loved his wife sincerely, but was, and wanted to be, of a heroic nature, and who was averse to all that savoured of self-torment and sentimentality, was attracted by Countess Irma's intellectual freedom and esprit.

It promises to bring into our grey and commonplace life that element of the dramatic which is the salt that our existence is savoured withal.

Her husband, after an exclamation which savoured of profanity, stared at her with a doubtful and malicious frown upon his forehead.

She savoured her unhappiness.

She savoured them with her loyalty, that loyalty which had survived even the frightful blow of George Cannon's casual disdain at her mother's tea-table!

A spasm of exquisite fear shot through her, and she savoured it deliciously.

She savoured the intimacy of the roomthe necessaries on the washstand, the superb tortoiseshell brushes, bought by George in Dublin, on the dressing-table, the open trunks, George's clothes on a chair, and her own flimsy trifles on the bed.

She savoured the moment as though she had been a watcher, and not an actor in the scene.

Considering which; considering Berreo's treachery to Whiddon's men; and considering also that as Berreo himself, like Raleigh, was just about to cross the gulf to Guiana in search of El Dorado, and expected supplies from Spain; 'to leave a garrison in my back, interested in the same enterprise, I should have savoured very much of the asse.'

The one savoured of perfidy to his religion, the other[a] of treachery to his sovereign.

No change of plate,that would have been extravagant, and would have savoured of aristocracy.

It is kunnyng withoute science, Wisdome withoute sapience, Bitter swetnesse and swete errour, Right eville savoured good savour; A strengthe weyked to stonde upright, And feblenesse fulle of myght.

The thing savoured of the Latin mind, she could not help thinking, rather than the Anglo-Saxon.

One would almost think that it savoured of the powers of evil.

Her person was petite and trivial; her complexion savoured of the brunette; and her face was marked with the small-pox, sufficiently to destroy its evenness and polish, though not enough to destroy its expression.

With her quick ear for rhythm she had been at once impressed by their namesimpressed to a degree that savoured of fascination.

The gloom of nightfall had come upon us, and I could no longer see his face distinctly, but his voice told me that he still savoured that triumph.

" Haynes suggested that Philip's behaviour savoured of unpatriotism, and that the one thing needful was the immediate appointment of a caterpillar controller.

He did not care very much for field-sports, and hunted and shot in a jog-trot safe kind of way, with a view to the benefit of his health, which savoured of old bachelorhood.

Even the blamelessness of the latter yielded no comfort; it savoured of a lack of spirit.

And at his Grace's first sight of Katherine he uttered an oath and some other expression that savoured of common hackney; for Cedric had been telling him of the soothsayer's words.

It savoured more of the last century than of the quiet and eminently respectable age in which we live.

If his demeanour and actions savoured at times somewhat of the dramatic, and if he had more of iron than honey in his manner, it must be remembered that his duty lay in wild places and amongst rough men, where strength of will and force of character were more needed than gentler virtues.