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My fortune having inured and allured me, even from my infancy, to one sole, singular, and perfect amity, hath verily in some sort distasted me from others....

From Montaigne and Shakspere by Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)

Nor did he become an archer of the Queen’s Body Guard, which is the Chiltern Hundreds of the distasted golfer.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Stevenson, Robert Louis

That this fruit however proved to be of the flavor so much distasted by her majesty, there is good evidence.

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Aikin, Lucy

There was a man waiting us in Prestongrange’s study, whom I distasted at the first look, as we distaste a ferret or an earwig.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

There was a man waiting us in Prestongrange's study, whom I distasted at the first look, as we distaste a ferret or an earwig.

From David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Stevenson, Robert Louis