1 At length down he came, with an unstable step and a strong flavour of wine and spices about his person.
2 You were imposed on, ma'am," replied Dr. Grant: "these potatoes have as much the flavour of a Moor Park apricot as the fruit from that tree.
3 Your words have no longer their old flavour.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song 4 The flavour is not disagreeable, but it is perceptible.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze 5 These Pearl gathered, and was pleased with their wild flavour.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE 6 I thought he would have missed its usual flavour, if it had been put there for him by any other hands.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 15. I MAKE ANOTHER BEGINNING 7 He chronicled with patience what he saw, detaching himself from it and tasting its mortifying flavour in secret.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 8 For injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that, being tasted less, they offend less; benefits ought to be given little by little, so that the flavour of them may last longer.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In CHAPTER VIII — CONCERNING THOSE WHO HAVE OBTAINED A PRINC... 9 She possessed affections, too, though hitherto acrid and disagreeable, as are the richest flavours of unripe fruit.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XV. HESTER AND PEARL 10 Might there not be an irresistible desire to quaff a last, long, breathless draught of the cup of wormwood and aloes, with which nearly all her years of womanhood had been perpetually flavoured.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY 11 It was a little inn where Mr. Micawber put up, and he occupied a little room in it, partitioned off from the commercial room, and strongly flavoured with tobacco-smoke.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 17. SOMEBODY TURNS UP