Here we were, fifty miles from a house, away in the forest beyond the sound of anything savoring of human agency, and yet we heard distinctly what was for all the world like the blows of an axe or hammer upon a stake, driving it into the earth.

Do not suppose I am going to repeat it all; you who want these things written up from the point of view of people who do not do them every day would get no savor in their speech.

But full well he knew that the very salt of it would have lost its best savor to him when this sweet, fair girl had gone out from his house.

The parting opportunity with E.D. has left a savor on my mind which I hope will not soon be forgotten.

It is a clear, concise, and distinct series of enactments, savoring throughout of practical judgment and European good sense.

This explains why it so frequently happens that, after a long course of learning and reading, we enter upon the world in our youth, partly with an artless ignorance of things, partly with wrong notions about them; so that our demeanor savors at one moment of a nervous anxiety, at another of a mistaken confidence.

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

How pleasant it is to find that such devoted instruments have left such a good savor behind them!

" Migwan sighed quietly and gave herself over to being agreeable to her canoe mates, but the occasion had lost its savor for her.

Desert Indians all eat chuck-wallas, big black and white lizards that have delicate white flesh savored like chicken.