In the hot stress of it I felt but the ardour that's in all who wear tartan--less a hatred of the men I thrust and slashed at with Sir Claymore than a zest in the busy traffic, and something of a pride (God help me!
They were young folks all, at the age when toil and plain living but give a zest to the errant pleasures of life, so they filled their hour of leisure with gallivanting among the mown and gathered grass.
Though fond of boating, he lost the zest for wild-fowl shooting, and left it for others to pursue who had not purchased experience at so dear a price.
They were a well-conducted, orderly family, and were united in love as dearly as those who had the greater zest of education and cultivation to heighten their domestic affections.
He never grew corpulent, never inactive; but retained hiszest for his gun, with a steady hand, to a good old age.
How full of zest life becomes in the country," cried Amy, "if one only goes to work in the right way!
The next morning he went into the haying with as much apparent zest as Leonard.
His zest in living and working was enhanced a thousand-fold, because life and work were illumined by happiness, as the scene was brightened by sunshine.
It is their raciness of the soil that gives such zest to, and has procured such immense popularity for the German classics.
He did not fight with any animosity: he jostled and was jostled with a fierce zest as though he was in the throng at a village fair.
I enjoyed my late excursion with Ellen with the greater zest because such pleasures have not often chanced to fall in my way.
MY DEAR SIR,--I have read Lord John Russell's letter with very great zest and relish, and think him a spirited sensible little man for writing it.
He soon departed and the Redmayne inquiry, begun with much zest and determination, gradually faded away and perished of inanition.
Since his death, in 1902, we have had other orang-utans that were successfully taught to dine, but none of them entered into the business with the same hearty zest which characterized Rajah, and made his performances so interesting.
In fact, it enters into its performance with a keen vigor and zest that is pleasing to behold.
The otters indulge in this very genuine sport with just as much interest and zest as boys develop in coasting over ice and snow with their sleds.
The winter gayeties of Montreal this year did not close without an additional zest being imparted by the visit of a contingent of ladies from Quebec.
In her society a fresh zest was added to "the lobster salad, and champagne, and chat" which the poet loved so well.
After a while, the young couple, though loving each other none the less, began to respond to the many calls which invited them again into society, and the pride they felt in each other added zest to the pleasures of their return.
She saw not the temptations that surrounded her husband in the circles where to all the stimulus of wit and intellect was often added the zest of wine, used far too freely for safety.
He never shirked a responsibility--in fact, would rather act without authority than not, as giving zest to the undertaking.
That he should be giving pain to Ellis added a certain zest to his own enjoyment.
Can it be unwisely, when it is so pure and bright as hers, and gives such a zest to common things?
To him all zest and pleasure in life seemed extinguished, and he would have preferred leaving Eton, where he must change his habits and amaze his associates.
Whoever comes, therefore, bringing with him salt and seasoning, and whatever else gives a keener zest to life, never comes amiss.
But he saw the humorous side of the assault, and enjoyed it with a keener zest than any of his assailants.
In these and other ways a certain zest is lent to the excursions or rather the incursions, of the trespasser, which lifts them above the level of ordinary walking exercise.
So great was his zest in cultivating this floral acquaintance that, as he tells us, he often visited a plant four or five miles from Concord half a dozen times within a fortnight, in order to note its time of flowering.
The partial pedantry of this speech was more than compensated for by the racy enjoyment of the speaker, and Magennis was really gratified at the zest with which his young friend relished his meal.
Means never failed her, no matter how costly the experiment, to carry out her plans, and difficulty gave only zest to every undertaking.
As for Repton, he relished the other's powers with the true zest of a pleasant talker; they were of different styles, and no disagreeable rivalry marred the appreciation.
Mrs. Sheldon entered into the shopping expedition with a zest which reminded Jack of the Scriptural battle-steed which sayeth "Ha-ha" to the trumpets.
Play is not play when zest is not given to it by work and duties.
Perfectly oblivious of all these compliments, the Challoners enjoyed themselves with the zest of healthy, happy English girls.
Dick had been the moving spirit of all the fun; the tennis-parties, the pleasant dawdling afternoons, would lose their zest when he was away.
A delicate meal on white china and silver gave zest to the appetite of our heroine, while her mind reverted to the dry bread and raw bacon she had so recently eaten in the saddle, not without a relish.
But this work was of such a different character from that which occupied her in the daytime that so far from fatiguing her it gave an added zest to her days.
If one had only to run after the balls of the players, there was not zest enough to carry one along.
He had little zest for continuing the subject and sullenly disposed of it in a word or two.
She had raised a mysterious barrier; all the more zest to the inevitable victory that would be his.
She often had driven it a hundred miles and more without resting, or without losing zest in the enterprise: then why should she fear the small matter of thirty miles, even under the most trying of conditions?
To do so would simply spoil for him all the pleasure of the trial, and there is probably no one in court who follows the evidence and pleadings more carefully or with greater zest than the prisoner himself.
The blacker the time the deeper bites the zest Of sudden sunshine on the open spaces.
These virtues are their commercial enterprise, their zest for town-planning and housing, and the comparatively small amount of money they waste in paying lawyers.
We see in much of the work of the younger men a vigour, a passion, a catholicity of interest, a zest for all life, that nothing but the most ambitious tasks could satisfy.
Here the zest for life, in a man who could no longer indulge it save in memory, is sublimated to a piercing but sweet lyrical cry, which is one of the most moving utterances in literature.
As you say [he writes in a letter, referring to a review of the Journal] the rest of the notice distinguishing Marie Bashkirtseff from me by her zest for life is an astonishing and ludicrous misreading.
And that the junior members of the Universities, since the war, have been taking with a new zest to dramatic production is a matter of common observation.
Why, even since I became bedridden, as you will see one day, my zest for life took a devil of a lot of killing--like a sectioned worm with all the parts still wriggling.
