1 This certainty of the morrow gave zest and enthusiasm to life, and the County people enjoyed life with a heartiness that Ellen could never understand.
2 So much of the keen zest had gone out of life recently.
3 They would have over-emphasized the novelty of the adventure, trying to make him feel in it the zest of an escapade.
4 But the reward itself seemed unpalatable just then: she could get no zest from the thought of victory.
5 The crude forms in which her friends took their pleasure included a loud enjoyment of such complications: the zest of surprising destiny in the act of playing a practical joke.
6 I admired the cheerful zest with which grandmother went about keeping us warm and comfortable and well-fed.
7 Such disappointments only gave greater zest to the nights when we acted charades, or had a costume ball in the back parlour, with Sally always dressed like a boy.
8 His zest in debauchery might wane, but never Mrs. Cutter's belief in it.
9 Novelty in society and adventure were the zest of life to Richard Coeur-de-Lion, and it had its highest relish when enhanced by dangers encountered and surmounted.
10 She knew them all so intimately, and had such a peculiar, flamey zest in all their affairs, it was wonderful, if just a trifle humiliating to listen to her.
11 My first feeling of fear had passed away, and I thrilled now with a keener zest than I had ever enjoyed when we were the defenders of the law instead of its defiers.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON 12 On the contrary, they seemed to add a zest to it by contrast, and were only sufficiently present to serve as an appetising sauce.
13 His approaching departure did not prevent his amusing himself, but rather gave zest to his pleasures.
14 He actually seemed to serve as a zest to Mr. Jaggers's wine.