Being perfect, they can never droop under that satiety which arises from the perception of fault; their virtue can never be so entirely savouredas to leave no pungency of gusto for the next approach.
But, withal, I enjoyed those Sydney years; yes, I savoured the life of that period with unfailing zest.
My reward began then, and most voluptuously I savoured it.
When at last their case was heard, their pleas savoured more of necessity than honour.
But the first day's work savoured more of impatience than of a 21 veteran army's methods.
She would never write a great one; and these panting aspirations which begot such mediocre results savoured to him of a storm in a teacup--of a furnace lit to boil the kettle.
That the step would result in an engagement might be predicted with a tolerable degree of certainty, and he would have preferred to arrive at an understanding with himself under conditions which savoured less of coercion.
Heriot noted with some surprise that the other's appearance savoured little of the American man of business, or of the man of business outside America.
While worrying over the settlement of the Powell estates and brother Christopher's as well, Milton continued his teaching; his pupil writes: "His manner of teaching never savoured in the least anything of pedantry.
The ceremonies which he used on this occasion savoured so much of Popery, however, that they were later brought against him, and helped to accomplish his downfall.
These "strains" all savoured of the jovial propensities of their author; it being very rarely that tenderness of sentiment, whether connected with friendship or love, is admitted into his compositions.
It savoured of coming autumn, and Ann watched the quiet sea bunch itself up into small, angry tufts of foam as the breeze which seemed to have sprung up from nowhere fled across it.
It savoured of India and other sun-steeped lands where water is too precious to throw upon the roads.
Its tone was neither political nor urban, but savoured rather of the cosmopolitan.
One night I stepped into a cesspool and had to sit on a chair while my batman pumped water over me almost as ill-savoured as the pool itself.
A chaplain had at all times to be very careful to avoid anything that savoured of favouritism.
Then Jean Gordon, the hermit of the Garpel glen, bade me an adieu, giving me an old-fashioned salutation as well, which savoured little of having forgotten all that she had lightlied to me.
But we had to pay for the distinction, for from that moment he favoured us with a prodigious deal of his conversation, which, to tell the truth, savoured but seldom of wit and often of rank sculduddery.
The moment she saw what he meant, she turned away, listened in silence, and spoke with a decision that savoured of anger.
Arthur was confident that he loved Barbara as never man had loved, as never woman had desired to be loved, and counted it not merely unjust but cruel of her to show him no kindness that savoured of like attraction.
I had another occupation, which savoured more of home, and served to keep my faculties from rusting; and that was the sale of our carriage.
Some one thought certain parts of his Education savoured of Rousseau, but he had not heard of Emile when he wrote.
This was in part an expression of his own strength and independence, but it also savoured of arrogance.
There was something about her that was not exactly of the governess out of place nor completely of the actress seeking an engagement, but that savoured of an interrupted profession or even of a blighted career.
Yet, as his latter reason savoured of sentimentalism, he would not admit of its existence even to himself--it clashed with his convictions that life was not worth living.
Now he was starving, yet forsooth had he savoured the flavour of pleasure in his dream.
And when he had ended his recital, his verses pleased the Overseer and he wondered at his words and savoured their grace and fecundity and said to them, "By Allah, ye possess both beauty and eloquence.
Suddenly he looked up, and drew the miniature out of his breast, gazing on it steadfastly and long, with a love and tenderness that no words can express, and a happiness so intense that it savoured of triumph.
Secrecy savoured of intrigue, and all things underhand were abominable to her.
She thought of the unsympathetic husband whose Christianity savoured of narrow prejudices and exacting codes, and she pitied the bereaved mother from the bottom of her heart.
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