Tastes

Examples

• How we shall conciliate this little creature, said Mrs. Bretton to me, I don't know: she tastes nothing, and by her looks, she has not slept. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• His understanding and tastes are so superior, it does a man good to be within their influence; and as to his temper and nature, I call them fine. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Yet I almost trembled for fear of making the answer too cordial: Graham's tastes are so fastidious. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• What are his tastes? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It is the same case with particular sounds, and tastes and smells. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Your town tastes would find them far too countrified. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I know you now, and your tastes and pursuits. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Yes; he has pretended to make my opinions and tastes his own. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I was born with the tastes of a lady, and he gratified them--in other words, he admired me, and he made me presents. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• His father, by-the-way, always encouraged these literary tastes, and paid him a small sum for each new book mastered. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The case is the same as in our judgments concerning all kinds of beauty, and tastes, and sensations. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Other people have not your puritanical tastes, was her angry reply. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• My friend rubbed his thin hands together with an appearance of avidity which was a surprise to me, who knew his frugal tastes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Those Pompeiians were very luxurious in their tastes and habits. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• You see, she has not had too much of that sort of existence as yet, and has not fallen in the way of means to educate her tastes or her intelligence. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• They are fine fellows--very fine fellows; with judgments matured by observation and reflection; and tastes refined by reading and study. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• His tastes in these matters were southern, and what we think infantine. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Miss Violet's tastes were, on the contrary, more rude and boisterous than those of her sister. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Now are we to maintain that all these and any who have similar tastes, as well as the professors of quite minor arts, are philosophers? Plato. The Republic.
• What COULD the tastes of that man be who saw friendliness and geniality in these shaggy hills? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• You have moral and literary tastes in common. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Some of the German ladies, who are very sentimental and simple in their tastes, fell in love with her and began to call her du at once. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• If you imagine a country that makes a wine because it tastes like strawberries, he said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• It is difficult to make rules, because tastes differ. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• His views are narrow, his feelings are blunt, his tastes are coarse, his manners vulgar. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Her cook does the washing and the food tastes of soap. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• What, with the largest portion of your mind--sentiments--tastes? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Why, ma'am, I am going to ask your advice, who are better acquainted with his lordship's tastes than I am. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• They have been telling me how you planned it and how you remembered all Esther's familiar tastes and ways. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Their tastes may not be the same. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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