It improves their flavor, promotes certain digestive secretions, and meets the nutritive demands of the body.

As the heather blossom is thought to impart a peculiarly pleasant flavor to honey, I was told many bee-stock-raisers of Lincolnshire brought their hives to this section to pasture them for a season on this purple prairie.

Apparently this nineteenth-century writer knows Addison, Fielding, Swift, Smollett, and other great writers of the past century almost as intimately as one knows his nearest friend; and he gives us the fine flavor of their humor in a way which no other writer, save perhaps Larnb, has ever rivaled.[240]

It is in reality a mixed sensation, in which smell and taste are both concerned, as is shown by the common observation that one suffering from a cold in the head, which blunts his sense of smell, loses the proper flavor of his food.

Sometimes the roughness and untutored emotions of the Dartmoor characters repel the readers; but these characters form strong, picturesque groups of human beings, and their dialect adds a pleasant flavor to the novels.

"I wonder how you'll like the flavor.

His pulpit manner always retained a flavor of dramatic style that contributed to his popularity.

The whirr of the sage-hen's wing, as she rises from the fragrant thicket, brings a flavor with it fresher far than that of the mint-julep.

The game-laws forbade them to weed their fields lest they should disturb the young partridges or leverets; to manure the soil with any thing which might injure their flavor; or even to mow or reap till the grass or corn was no longer required as shelter for the young coveys.

The original vacuum pack keeps its fine flavor fresh for you.

The old man paused and made that queer movement with his wrinkled lips as if he tasted some salty flavor.

Fruit should be cooked by stewing, or by gentle simmering; hard boiling will destroy the fine flavor of all fruits, and especially of berries and other small fruits.

Vegetables soon absorb bad flavors if left near anything odorous or decomposing, and are thus rendered unwholesome.

Nothing in the shape of flesh comes amiss to this rapacious creature; yet, much as it enjoys the flavor of the human subject, it relishes the cheval mort.

Drink hot or cold, as preferred. ORANGEADE.Rub lightly two ounces of lump sugar on the rind of two nice, fresh oranges, to extract the flavor; put this sugar into a pitcher, to which add the juice expressed from the oranges, and that from one lemon.

To appreciate the wild and sharp flavors of these October fruits, it is necessary that you be breathing the sharp October or November air.

The strength of the drug, however, must have been far greater in this instance, for whereas I could in the former case distinguish no flavor but that of sugar and rose leaves, I now found the taste intensely bitter and repulsive to the palate.

In no case, however, should the corn be left too long in the water, as overcooking spoils the delicate flavor.

I. Forbidden fruit a flavor has That lawful orchards mocks; How luscious lies the pea within The pod that Duty locks!

Why, it hasn't got the same flavor.

" The brakie considered this bit of news and rolled it back and forth and tried its flavor against his gossiping palate.

Is there a champagne wine having the flavor of gun-flints? Answer.

About the first there clung some flavor of good birth and training, as about a fallen angel; something long, lithe, and courtly in the person; something aquiline and darkling in the face.

But, on the other hand, repeated experiments failed to detect even the most watery flavor of conviviality in the composition.

In applying these tests, it should be remembered that a song may be almost wholly ancient, that is, composed anterior to the Conquest, and yet display a few later allusions introduced by the person who preserved it in writing, so as to remove from it the flavor of heathenism.