Looking in the mirror with satisfaction, she murmured: "There'll be the added zest of making Midshipman Darrin forget the distant face of that home girl.

A dull patter on the windowif one sits unbuttoned on the hearthgives a zest to a languid chapter.

This thought gives us a new zest for life.

At the sight for the first time the zest of the pursuit filled me, and I forgot my pain.

There was a madcap zest in his speech, something so merry and wild, that Grey, who had fallen back into his Tidewater manners, became once more the careless boy.

In persons so afflicted there appears a fatigability, a sensitiveness to cold, cold hands and feet, which are sometimes mottled bluish-red, a loss of appetite and zest in life, and a mental instability characterized by an indecision, and a tendency to worry, a weepishness upon the slightest provocation.

Gravy lies about it like a moat around a castle, and if there is in you the zest for encounter, you attack it above these murky waters.

He entered with zest into our historical-geographical studies.

And then he entered upon personal talk with the same zest with which he had discussed bait.

It is possible, too, that the zest with which she indulged herself may have derived additional keenness from the knowledge that her ill-wishers found in it pretext for misconstruction and calumny; and that, being conscious of entire purity in thought, word, and deed, she looked on it as due to her own character to show that she set all such detraction and detractors at defiance.

And the going of her little friend had taken a zest from the pursuit of this determinedly golfing and unresponsive male.

With the dawn of the new year, a year destined to mark an epoch in the history of civilization, his flagging spirits were revived, and he entered with zest on what proved to be his final and successful struggle.

In ten minutes, as she promised, Fanny descended with Redbud,her arm laced around the slender waist of that young lady, as is the wont with damsels,and ready to give battle to our friend Verty, upon any additional provocation, with even greater zest than before.

There is a noisy zest about the Scotch preacher: he comes in "stomping" as we say, he must clear his throat, he must strike his hands together; he even seems noisy when he unwinds the thick red tippet which he wears wound many times around his neck.

The wild waves come tumbling in, their glad shouts ringing through the midnight stillness with the same zest as of yore; and the same starry skies, which looked down on the fair maiden of a century ago, still bend over her children's children, as they tread along life's rugged way.

"I frequently have to take my passengers back to Baku," said Captain Z at the meal he was pleased to call breakfast; "

However, there was no help for it: all she could do was to spoil the enjoyment as far as possible, by looking and speaking in a cold manner, which often chilled Maggie's little heart, and took all the zest out of the pleasure now.

The old adage says that a man cannot burn the candle at both ends; like most proverbs, it is only partially true, for often the hardest worker is the man who enters with most zest into his recreations, and this was emphatically the case with Mr. Dodgson.