Example Sentences

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They seem to have done less to destroy life’s palate with the condiments of civilization, and therefore, still find plain things savorous.

From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Collier, Price

In moral man it is the sensation which the organ impressed by any savorous centre impresses on the common centre.

From The Physiology of Taste by Robinson, Fayette

My weakness by thy savorous strength is nursed, And in thy gaping love absorbing me I taste the time when all I am shall be In Nature's vast and flowering corpse dispersed.

From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various

They were, as I expected, sitting around the fire eating their supper, and there came to my nostrils the savorous odour of roast pork.

From Palm Tree Island by Strang, Herbert

That is to say, the savorous particles must be dissolved in some fluid, so as to be subsequently absorbed by the nervous tubes, feelers, or tendrils, which cover the interior of the gastatory apparatus.

From The Physiology of Taste by Robinson, Fayette