Tasted

Examples

• Mr. Bumble tasted the medicine with a doubtful look; smacked his lips; took another taste; and put the cup down empty. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• You don't remember me I see, but my name is Bell, and once or twice when the parsonage has been full, I've slept here, and tasted your good ale. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I never tasted it in my life. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He smelt it--tasted it--smiled benignantly--then said: It is inferior--for coffee--but it is pretty fair tea. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Miss Crocker tasted first, made a wry face, and drank some water hastily. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• And he stirred it and he tasted it; not with a spoon that was brought to him, but with a file. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The humbled mutineer smelt it, tasted it, and returned to his seat. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• You have already told me, he said, that you have never--to your knowledge--tasted opium in your life. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The tale is that he who has tasted the entrails of a single human victim minced up with the entrails of other victims is destined to become a wolf. Plato. The Republic.
• I think they must have been taken out at random, for I am sure I tasted aniseed water, anchovy sauce, and salad dressing. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• But you eat nothing: you have scarcely tasted since you began tea. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• In short, the company agreed unanimously that it was the best porter they had ever tasted. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• He felt as if he had been transported to Fairy-land, and enjoyed a happiness seldom tasted by man. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I had never tasted anything so cool and clean. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• This liquor tasted like a small cider, and was not unpleasant. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• I tasted what they offered me: feebly at first, eagerly soon. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I tasted her cup. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He put wine to my lips; I tasted it and revived; then I ate something he offered me, and was soon myself. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He stirred his rum and water pointedly at me, and he tasted his rum and water pointedly at me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• In general, he was particular and dainty enough, and knew well each shade of flavour in his food, but now the devilled chicken tasted like sawdust. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• How perfect everything tasted and smelled and sounded, here in this utter stillness of snow and falling twilight. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• At my own house I had turtle cutlets fried; they were perfectly good, and tasted like turtle. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• I was consumed with thirst--I drank eagerly; the beverage was sweet, but I tasted a drug. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• To have my bit of comfort preternaturally snatched from me, ere I had well tasted its virtue! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It tasted of rusty metal. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• And yet not a good entertainment--but that was my own fault, for I tasted of too many things. Plato. The Republic.
• She had just tasted her first cup, when she was disturbed by a soft tap at the room-door. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• On this trip I tasted the first meat I had eaten since leaving Earth--large, juicy steaks and chops from the well-fed domestic animals of the farms. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• I'll have a grand feast, for I haven't tasted a lime this week. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• It has a charm which, once tasted, a man will yearn to taste again. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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