And then he goes on to moralize in a half-believing, half-doubting kind of way, on the probability of a life to come, and ends by speaking of or rather apostrophizing Jesus Christ in a strain which would seem to savour of Socinianism.
So Hermotinus (Plato will say) after his exclusive association with Stoics, cannot be expected to know the savour of other people's mouths.
It was pleasant enough and easy enough, though it was searching; it had too much savour of old times about it to be anything but easy and pleasant.
Gladly would she have sent it all down again; but she was hungry, and the tray steamed a pleasant savour towards her.
I was much later on to renew acquaintance with that great lady, but I think I scarce exceed in saying that with my so interested cousin's death half the savourof my appreciation had lost itself.
They leave no sweet savour on the hand that bestows, and bring none to that which receives.
But if the churches be sties of unclean beasts; if they are made up of ignorant and ungodly persons, that savour nothing but the things of the flesh, and use to worship they know not what, we may thank ill-governed families for all this.
The Spirit and the word do always agree: if therefore I can prove that the Spirit of God doth commonly work men's hearts to a love and savour of these duties, doubtless they are of God.
Of course you cannot," replied Arthur: and he felt vexed with himself that his tone should savour of peevishness.
The humours of Jack Cade in 'The Contention' can owe their savour to him alone.
You have the leper's blessing, but you think Maybe the bread will something lack in savour Unless you mix my curse into the dough.
We shall see presently what a stupendous terror Henson had over the younger man, and in what way all the sweetness and savour of life was being crushed out of him.
There was a savour of nightmare about the whole thing that appealed distinctly to his imagination.
He lived and breathed amid the fragrance of sweet-savour offerings, permitted for more than threescore years to participate in the joy of the Lord Himself over the cheerful though often costly gifts of His people.
Our Lord bade His disciples tarry until endued with power from on high, because it is such enduement that gives to all witness and work the celestial savour and flavour of the Spirit.
There was thesavour of it on his lips, piercing and delicate, and in his nostrils.
There is no savour in anything to me until I go," he answered.
The scientific importance of good roasting and grilling is that a savour is thereby produced which sets the whole gastric and digestive economy of the man who sniffs it and tastes it, at work.
Mutton and beef owe their savour in some degree to the scents of the grasses on which sheep and oxen feed.
Von Wissman was staying at the German Embassy, but was drawn all the way to South Kensington by the sweet savour of the grill-room--an instance of what the physiologists call "positive chemotaxis.
They savour of the Courtier, it must be allowed, and not of the Commonwealthsman.
It will take the savour from his palate, and the rest from his pillow, for days and nights.
Like the gospel itself, diamonds are a savour of life unto life, or a savour of death unto death, according to the character of them that look on them.
Their testimony was then, as such testimony will ever be, the savour of life or the savour of death.
There are wheels within wheels; sections playing on each other tricks which savour of treachery on the one side, while on the other side there may be sulks which are constructive mutiny.
So get you hence in peace; and tell the Dauphin His jest will savour but of shallow wit, 295 When thousands weep more than did laugh at it.
She was a long way from death in spite of the cackle of idiot chirurgeons, and there was much savourstill in the world.
She remembered afterwards that from the Maid's rough clothes had come a faint savour of wood-smoke, as from one who has been tending a bonfire in the autumn stubble.
To be carried away by it you must savour it, slowly suck the juice from each line, drink it in.
You ought not to vegetate, my dear; you ought not to live like every one else, but to get the full savour of life, and a slight flavour of depravity is the sauce of life.
As to the son the mother seems superb, So she appeared to me; for somewhat bitter Tasteth the savour of severe compassion.
Many a flower lover since Chaucer has felt as did the poet:-- "The savour of the Roses swote Me smote right to the herte rote.
If man then, is a kind of mean between corruptible and incorruptible things, since every mean savours of the nature of the extremes, it is necessary that man should savour of either nature.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "savour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
