The train moved on, bearing Matthew Strang from all the sweetness and savorof life.
Tis to be feared that all my labors, as to many of you, have served no other purpose but to harden you; and that the word which I have preached, instead of being a savor of life unto life, has been a savor of death unto death.
Why have ye not that savor of the things of God, by which you may see the distinguishing glory and evident divinity of me and my doctrine?
Because their community of interest in his work had lapsed, Banneker found the savor oozing out of his toil.
There was also a strong effusion of stale dinners and storm-beaten woollen garments, but there was, after all, that savor of festivity which Ellen was apt to discover in the new.
Andrew had his own cause of worry, and finally reverted to it, eating his food with no more conception of the savor than if it were in another man's mouth.
Milk-maids are more likely to make rich marriages than factory girls; there is a certain savor of romance about milk, and the dewy meadows, and the breath of kine, but a shoe factory is brutally realistic and illusionary.
Life is bad enough now," she continued without heeding the interruption, "but better a bitter savor than none at all.
You are partly right," he admitted, "but do any of us find the savor of life so sweet as to make it worth while?
However strongly the artist might savor of Bohemianism, his wife was connected with certain prominent Philistines, and he had exhibited a most remarkable readiness to have them present in force.
I can only refer to the part I took in it from memory, and if I could delineate the actual facts as they occurred they would savor so much of egotism that I should feel ashamed to make them public.
Her mind being of a strictly religious caste, the effusions from her pen all savor of a highly moral and elevating tone.
Since entering the Primer Class, breakfast had lost its savor to Emmy Lou in the terror of being late.
There must be something of the salt that will not lose its savor there to make them serve the writers in the eyes of posterity.
Hugues le Noir, Inquisitor of France, by granting him jurisdiction over divination, even when it did not savor of heresy.
All such matters are under episcopal jurisdiction, and the Inquisition cannot meddle with them unless they savor of manifest heresy.
The distaste for all food grows upon you, till it becomes a loathing not to be driven away by bitters or quinine: there is no savor in the smoke of Kinnekinnick, nor any flavor in the still waters of Monongahela.
I was right glad when all was ended, and I had escaped from the small, close room, where the air seemed heavy with the savor of blood.
But the savor of the pheasant no longer attracted him.
Presently the light of his camp-fire cut the gloom, and the air was redolent with the savor of toasting bacon.
I know not how it may be," he said to himself, smiling whimsically, "but I seem to have caught upon my lips the bitter human savor of repentance.
You came to get just what you did get--the full savor of the humiliation of my position.
But Lydia had seen it too long from the inside not to be eager to savor a view of it from without.
Consequently whatever injury is inflicted on us, in so far as it is derogatory to our excellence, seems to savor of a slight.
The priest shall offer it all and burn it all upon the altar, for a holocaust, and most sweet savor to the Lord.
But the performance of actions in representation of others, seems to savor of the theatre or of the drama: because formerly the actions performed in theatres were done to represent the actions of others.
But in those things that savor of manliness and excellence, such as matters of vengeance, man seeks to be in the open.
And in this sense is to be understood the saying that the will of the sovereign has the force of law; otherwise the sovereign's will would savor of lawlessness rather than of law.
But it seems to savor of levity for a man to eat with haste.
Now ignorance seems to savor of turning away from something.
The buildings are mostly but a single story high, and the nomenclatures over the store entrances savor of the River Po or the Etruscan Hills.
Of course the first outlay for some of these commodities maysavor of extravagance.
A tuft of green shoots seen against canyon walls of steel and stone--one must be in the city to savor the tenderness of spring.
Trivial letters, seeking benefactions of every kind, took the savor from his daily mail.
Of course the savor of danger and blood is only one of the things to which we should appeal, but I give the whole passage to make the point clearer.
The savor of his noble life still lingers in the churches which enjoyed his ministrations.
The savor and joy of life returned upon him in a flood.
He would do his best, and without the political wrestle life would be too trifling to be borne; but the relish and the savor were gone, and all was gray.
Though the certainty of this criterion is far from demonstrable, yet it has the savor of analogical probability.
His silence and return no longer seem like a romance; they savor rather of a drama, and with a Slav, as much a Slav as he is, one may expect anything.
He lacked constantly the something necessary and local which gives to certain very inferior painters the inexpressible superiority of a savor of soil.
His gestures, so conformable to the appearance of things, his mobile face and his Tuscan tongue, which softened into h all the harsh e's between two vowels, gave a savor to his stories which delighted a seeker after local truths.
Hortense was beautiful flesh, as Valerie had said to Lisbeth; but Madame Marneffe had spirit in her very shape, and the savor of vice.
Cibot, in the pride of her heart, enumerated every dish beforehand; a salt andsavor once periodically recurrent, had vanished utterly from daily life.
