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True, generous feeling is made small account of by some, but here were two natures rendered, the one intolerably acrid, the other despicably savourless for the want of it.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

True, generous feeling is made small account of by some, but here were two natures rendered, the one intolerably acrid, the other despicably savourless for the want of it. 

From Jane Eyre by Townsend, F. H.

To-morrow they were filing back through that postern that had given them this, their fortnight's respite, from tasks too often ignoble, from cramped circumstances, from savourless lives.

From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver

If Uncle Blair took the Story Girl away would not life become rather savourless on the hill farm?

From The Golden Road by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

When supper-time was come and they were eating their soup, the secretary said— "Leave those savourless dishes alone, and let us taste this loveworthy whet for wine."

From The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. III. (of V.) by Saintsbury, George