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Example sentences for "savored"

Lexicographically close words:
savo; savoir; savoit; savon; savor; savorest; savoring; savors; savory; savour
  1. One night while sitting there with a friend, I was given a curacao flavored with turpentine, while he drew a cocktail savored with the cholo waiter's dirty thumb.

  2. Let us ask that individual," indicating a man in the distance who was scraping with a stick among the mounds and whose actions savored of those of a ghoul.

  3. Which words somewhat checked our merriment, for that they savored of rebuke to me for forward speech, and I ween awoke in Mr. Page thoughts of a graver sort.

  4. Methought it savored more of heaven than earth.

  5. The churches were still shut, and bore upon their porches such inscriptions as savored more of heathenism than of Christianity.

  6. It was undoubtedly becoming and distinguished, but savored ever so slightly of ostentation, as did her custom of always dressing little Lucy in blue.

  7. It must have savored of horror, as do all meek and downtrodden things when they gain, driven to bay, the strength to do battle.

  8. I have always hated a scene, and this performance savored too much of moving picture melodrama to suit me.

  9. But her speech to him which I had just heard savored more of the mother laying down the law to a refractory child than it did of anything approaching sentiment.

  10. To have a maid, while I did nothing to justify my existence save keep myself pretty and entertain Dicky, savored too much to me of the harem favorite.

  11. The good fathers thought this savored of downright necromancy; and it may have furnished an argument against the unfortunate engineer in the persecution which he afterwards underwent from the Inquisition.

  12. But, in point of fact, the excessive rigor of the confinement, as we shall have occasion to see, savored much more of the punishment dealt out to some high offender, than of the treatment of an unfortunate lunatic.

  13. He was a fine, dashing, good-looking fellow, with a certain air of pretension and swagger about him that savored more of the adventurer than of the character he wished to assume.

  14. Small fires were kindled by some of the men, and the unmistakable scent of glowing dung chips savored the dark clouds of smoke that drifted out across the river's surface.

  15. Vasant Rao savored a mouthful, then discarded the cup into the road.

  16. It was continued in another theological Act the next week; the students became excited and called upon Father BaƱez to repress these novelties, which he did in a lecture declaring that the views of Fray Luis savored of Pelagianism.

  17. One opined that the acts savored of the heresy of the Adamites and Alumbrados; the other attributed it merely to imprudent simplicity and ignorance.

  18. In the Concordia of 1512 it was provided that they should not have cognizance of blasphemy, unless it manifestly savored of heresy, such as denying the existence of God or his omnipotence.

  19. The girl's manner savored less of assurance than of wholesome pride which had been injured.

  20. It savored of patronage; besides, she did not like to think that Vane owed anything to the Horsfields.

  21. His company savored strongly of the Clary's Grove order, and though daring enough in the presence of danger, were difficult to bring down to the inflexibilities of military discipline.

  22. He was naturally indisposed to undertake anything that savored of exertion, but his brief public career had exposed the limited area of his literary attainments.

  23. To the Indians this evidently savored of some mysterious religious ceremony or incantation, and the boys could not help grinning as they saw the eager eyes of their Buck friends following every motion of the coil.

  24. Not that she did not echo his wish, but somehow his manner savored of an exclusive arrogation of piety and a suggestion of reproach.

  25. But to be hurled from, a crag into a cataract savored of atrocity, and they dreaded the reprisals of capture.

  26. Auguste, with a tact that savored of practice.

  27. But his vernacular savored so hopelessly of the track and stall that he had been able to acquire no mastery over the art of marine invective.

  28. Any attempt to guide and direct him was, at any time, enough to excite a wilful endeavor to oppose it, and whatever savored of opposition immediately evoked his resistance.

  29. Whatever savored of an adventure was the delight of Jack Massingbred.

  30. There was nothing visible that savored of astrology or magic, unless some tin candlesticks with battered rims could be cabalistically construed.

  31. This conspicuous article, though mysterious and unaccountable, was not cabalistic, and savored not of witchcraft.

  32. The thought of such an attempt to muzzle the liberty of the press was rather an incentive than otherwise, for it savored of real adventure and indicated that a moral issue was involved.

  33. He intended to be sincere in his offer of self-humiliation, though his speech savored of extravagance.

  34. Unhappily, his fate threw him into a period, when the precedents of many former reigns savored strongly of arbitrary power, and the genius of the people ran violently towards liberty.

  35. The Established Church was bad enough; it was a positive scandal to introduce into the service aught that savored of Rome.

  36. Such violent treatment of the squire's son savored of sacrilege.

  37. If Count Vassilan was of the bovine order, the Earl of Valletort savored of the tiger.

  38. Nevertheless, reminding himself that precious time was being wasted, he determined to seek a full explanation of circumstances which at present savored of Bedlam.

  39. It was well that the witty retort was not made a century earlier; for the speaker would have been punished by a fine, since they fined so sharply anything that savored of "speaking against the minister.

  40. Violins were widely opposed, they savored too much of low, tavern dance-music.

  41. He liked to laugh at the theatre, but mistrusted a daily point of view which savored of buffoonery.

  42. It savored to her of narrow medical tyranny, and distrust of aspiring individuality.

  43. To flirt with a married woman savored to him of things un-American and unworthy, and Littleton had much too healthy an imagination to rhapsodize from such a stand-point.


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