Those ribs look so savorous and rich, I think I must try that recipe. From Wordnik.com. [Just Call Me Culinary Jebus] Reference
In moral man it is the sensation which the organ impressed by any savorous centre impresses on the common centre. From Wordnik.com. [The Physiology of Taste] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [The Physiology of Taste] Reference
Baudelaire saw himself as the poet of a decadent epoch, an epoch in which art had arrived at the over-ripened maturity of an aging civilization; a glowing, savorous, fragrant over-ripeness, that is already softening into decomposition. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4] Reference
Whereto he answered, In my country are houses wide and spacious and fruits ripe and delicious and waters sweet and viands savorous and of goodly use and meats fat and full of juice and flocks innumerous and all things pleasant and all the goods of life, the like whereof are not, save in the Paradise which. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
I know well that S. Clare was in the way full of merits, and that she was ravished in the profoundness of the great clearness and light of heaven, nevertheless though she were resplendissant, well savorous, and right full of great miracles as is well declared by the cardinals of Rome, mine oath of truth that I have made and my conscience, constraineth me that. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 6] Reference
In relation to solid and savorous bodies, it is necessary in the first place for the teeth to divide them, that the saliva and other tasting fluids to imbibe them, and that the tongue press them against the palate, so as to express a juice, which, when sufficiently saturated by the degastory tendrils, deliver to the substance the passport it requires for admission into the stomach. From Wordnik.com. [The Physiology of Taste] Reference
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