To realise him more, his sufferings under his unfortunate match must have the downright pungency of lifemust (or should) make you not mirthful but uncomfortable, just as the same predicament would move you in a neighbour or old friend.

A Norwegian housewife would not consider a meal complete without five or six different kinds of cheese of all degrees of pungency in taste and odor upon the table.

He was quite protected from the wind, which gives so much pungency to bitter cold, rendering it insupportable.

They are not to be imitated, but he would be much less than he is without them, and they act by their very strength and pungency as a preservative of his work.

A practised book-maker, with entire control of her materials, would have shaped out a duodecimo volume full of eloquent and ingenious dissertation,criticisms which quite take the color and pungency out of other people's critical remarks on Shakspeare,philosophic truths which she imagined herself to have found at the roots of his conceptions, and which certainly come from no inconsiderable depth somewhere.

His wit was the wit of a virtuous, a decorous man; it had pungency without venom; humour without indelicacy; and was copious without being tiresome.