'Langley shook his head, tasting the acridness of defeat. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Way Home]
The smoke's usual acridness was smothered by the residue of the liquor in her throat. From Wordnik.com. [The Metrognome and other Stories]
The air no longer held that acridness which had tortured our breathing, but was fresh and cool. From Wordnik.com. [The Crystal Gryphon]
The faint odor of damp wool clung to her arms, and he wondered if the acridness of iron-gall ink clung to him. From Wordnik.com. [The White Order]
The water carried away some of the acridness and dustiness that seeped endlessly into his nostrils and dried his throat. From Wordnik.com. [Fall of Angels]
The gale that had buffeted Emal earlier in the week had died down to a light but bitter wind out of the northwest, with but a hint of the iron-acridness of the Aerlal Plateau. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness]
VII A cool mist shrouds Cyad, a mist that holds the tang of salt air, the fragrance of the late-blooming aramyds, and the faintest odor of the bitterness that reminds Lorn of chaos, an acridness far stronger within the Quarter of the Magi'i, but omnipresent throughout the great white city. From Wordnik.com. [The Magi'i Of Cyador]
She lay down again on the bed and sang a little wandering tune made up of the words I have sung all the songs all the songs I have sung all the songs there are until, touched by her own lullaby, she grew drowsy, and in the hollow of near-sleep she tasted the acridness of gold, left the chill of alabaster and smelled the dark, sweet stench of loam. From Wordnik.com. [Toni Morrison - Prose] Reference
Laura's has a rather crude strain beside it, the acridness of youth that has not yet ripened. From Wordnik.com. [Floyd Grandon's Honor] Reference
Its great acridness fills the mouth with rheum on chewing, and it is good against the toothach. From Wordnik.com. [The Family Herbal,: And of the Drugs which are Produced by Vegetables of Other Countries : with ...] Reference
He showed more surprise than pleasure at seeing Alec, smiling with his own acridness as he said. From Wordnik.com. [Alec Forbes of Howglen] Reference
While the coffee doesn't have the acridness of Butler's blend, it is too weak and ends up tasting like coffee-tainted water. From Wordnik.com. [Columbia Daily Spectator] Reference
Bitter references were made to dying and deserted husbands, and all the acridness of the chorus-girl was squeezed into allusions anent the Divorce Court. From Wordnik.com. [A Mummer's Wife] Reference
The librarian, who had a quick acridness of manner, addressed her, asking what room she had, and asked the second time in spite of the school-teacher's evident reluctance to hear her. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind in the rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural] Reference
The acridness with which he assailed the whole clerical profession had its origin, not so much in any real knowledge of its history, as in resentment at the attacks which many of that profession had made on him in retaliation for his political and legislative changes. From Wordnik.com. [History of the University of Virginia, 1819-1919] Reference
Mr. Hoar has studied the era with a devout enthusiasm for the character of the people, -- a people from whom he is proud to claim his own descent, and whose positive virtues (even with the spice of acridness which distinguished them) are faithfully reproduced in his own person. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860] Reference
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