Flavour

Examples

• Why, I have noticed myself that there is a queer kind of flavour in the place to-night, Mr. Weevle rejoins. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Devoured in haste, I do not know its flavour. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I had eaten with relish: the food was good--void of the feverish flavour which had hitherto poisoned what I had swallowed. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• From some it derives a flavour which no culture or management can equal, it is supposed, upon any other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• And half a grain of reality, like the smallest portion of some other scarce natural productions, will flavour an enormous quantity of diluent. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• At length down he came, with an unstable step and a strong flavour of wine and spices about his person. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The only time I saw Miss Hale, she treated me with a haughty civility which had a strong flavour of contempt in it. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The same sort of difficulty is presented if we enquire how it is that certain flavours and odours give pleasure, and others displeasure. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• And they armed each other with knowledge, they extracted the subtlest flavours from the apple of knowledge. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And they ate the fox, a rather high-flavoured meat, and not what any one would eat in a world of plenty. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The room is strongly flavoured with it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• There was so much Powder in waiting, that it flavoured the dinner. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• He presented, altogether, rather a mildewy appearance, and emitted a fragrant odour of full-flavoured Cubas. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

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