You know quite well what I mean," he said at last when they were out of sight of the house and only faint pungency of burning wood reached them, with the crackle of wind in the scrub.
When the familiar pungency of her boarding-house flowed in and round Mrs. Violet Smith, she paused for a moment and could not push through the oppression.
It is full of quiet, sometimes grim, humour; of picturesque and witty touches; of pungency and irony.
The true sense of these things, the apprehension of them in the divine presence, must, of necessity, impart a holy gravity to the character, and a special pungency and power to the testimony.
See, too, what a garden pungency there is in his garlic ode (III.
Water extracts the whole of the pungency of this herb by infusion, and elevates it in distillation.
The leaves of the plant discover a viscid sweetishness, accompanied with a more durable saponaceous pungency and warmth: these seem capable of answering some useful purposes, as a stimulating, aperient, antiscorbutic medicine.
Both water and rectified spirit extract the virtues of this root by infusion, and elevate them in distillation: along with the aqueous fluid an essential oil arises, possessing the whole taste and pungency of the horse-radish.
As I achieved the desired position I became painfully aware of the pungency of the perfume with which the apartment was filled.
Especial attention given in advance to the kitchen will be more than repaid by the convenience and efficiencies secured.
The next step, and the one that bids fair to inaugurate an entirely new house-building procedure, is now in the making, although as yet it is in the experimental and testing stage.
Through the compounding of interest, the mortgage can be lifted at less expense than any other procedure.
Water pipes on the buildings furnish excellent grounding.
This, of course, may run the gamut from a small home garden to supply the vegetable needs of the household to the operation of a larger tract on a commercial basis.
A house with lines that look well in town or city may be only a blot on the landscape when set in the open country.
Again, single plants may be set by themselves and given special attention, later becoming "specimens" which are much in demand by admirers of the species.
There was pungency enough in his epigrams, in the slashing, coarse, incisive brutality of his style, to make his attack formidable.
This will give a faint suggestion of the racy pungency of the Indian turnip.
So the colours of bodies or their hardnesses occur with their figures: every smell and taste has its degree of pungency as well as its peculiar flavour: and each note in music is combined with the tone of some instrument.
He found some reward, perhaps, for the drudgery in the pungency of the dockets in which Miss Nightingale conveyed her instructions.
At just fifteen minutes before seven, to the pungencyof coffee and the harsh sing of water across the hall, Mrs. Lipkind in a fuzzy wrapper the color of her eyes and hair, kissed her son awake.
The critics and politicians, and especially the philanthropists, have chewed them, till they are mere wads of syllable-fibre, without a suggestion of their old pungency and power.
Also a sharp pyroligneous-acid pungency in the air that stings one's eyes.
It was a cacophony of smells, ranging from the heavily oppressive odour of the Dutch cheeses and the Gruyeres to the alkalinepungency of the Olivets.
All sorts of smells were wafted through the hoarding from the neighbouring cellars; the musty smell of vegetables, the pungency of fish, the overpowering stench of cheese, and the warm reek of poultry.
Should he re-state it in such terms as to make it palatable to refined readers, diluting its primary pungency without impairing its essential signification?
It held within it an unmatched faculty for pathos, a capacity for expressing a lambent and kindly humour, a power of pungency in satire and a descriptive vividness that English could not give.
They are not to be imitated, but he would be much less than he is without them, and they act by their very strength and pungency as a preservative of his work.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pungency" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
