Next, I said my suppers on vacation were "a sapid feast.". From Wordnik.com. [AugustaChronicle.com: Top News and Blogs] Reference
“The ailing Throne resists with all the power of senescence.” sapid. From Wordnik.com. [Continuing to Improve My Vocabulary « So Many Books] Reference
Now the sapid juices found in pericarpal fruits evidently exist also in the earth. From Wordnik.com. [On Sense and the Sensible] Reference
Braised and seasoned with local herbs, it was tender as lobster and sapid as filet mignon. From Wordnik.com. [In Other Worlds]
Further, all animals furnished with a mouth derive pleasure or pain from the touch of sapid juices. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Animals] Reference
Again, a stone is inodorous, just because it is tasteless, while, on the contrary, wood is odorous, because it is sapid. From Wordnik.com. [On Sense and the Sensible] Reference
Several species of palm, from the fact of yielding large sapid central buds which are cooked as vegetables, are known as cabbage-palms. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
A recent analysis of the waters shows that the proportion of sapid ovaloid particles and sulphuretted trinitrotoluene is larger than ever. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-07-28] Reference
(The day after reading "sapid" in Mr. Schur's book, I reached for my dictionary to find another word, and it opened to the page topped by "sapid.". From Wordnik.com. [AugustaChronicle.com: Top News and Blogs] Reference
“Their form as Shadow, accompanied by no intervening body nor by any sun, and uniquely comprehensible as a mode of dementia, cautious and sapid …” pinguitude. From Wordnik.com. [Continuing to Improve My Vocabulary « So Many Books] Reference
Chemistry can concentrate the sapid and odorous elements of the peach and the bitter almond into a transparent fluid, of which the smell shall be vertiginous and the taste death. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860] Reference
In a word, nothing is sapid but what is already or nearly dissolved. From Wordnik.com. [The Physiology of Taste] Reference
It's fat with plums as big as your thumbs, reeking with sapid juices. From Wordnik.com. [Songs and Other Verse] Reference
Pure water creates no sensation, because it contains no sapid particle. From Wordnik.com. [The Physiology of Taste] Reference
As a consequence of this, heated fluids act differently on the sapid bodies presented to them. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Household Management] Reference
I like good, thick Christmas pie, 'reeking with sapid juices,' full-ripe and zealous for good or ill. From Wordnik.com. [Songs and Other Verse] Reference
The sapid body is appreciated only on account of the juice, and not for the odorous gas which emanates from it. From Wordnik.com. [The Physiology of Taste] Reference
Organized charity is a sapid and savorless thing; its place among moral agencies is no higher than that of root beer. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909] Reference
All sapid bodies are necessarily odorous, and therefore belong as well to the empire of the one as of the other sense. From Wordnik.com. [The Physiology of Taste] Reference
The cup furnishes a thin film like swan-skin which imbibes the sapid exudations from the stem, the source of nourishment. From Wordnik.com. [Social Life in the Insect World] Reference
Fire, if they get a Substance inflamable, and that will not mingle with Water, that they presently call Sulphur; what is sapid and. From Wordnik.com. [The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject.] Reference
Direct sensation is the first perception emanating from the intermediate organs of the mouth, during the time that the sapid body rests on the tongue. From Wordnik.com. [The Physiology of Taste] Reference
If asked how a sapid body acts, we reply that it acts when it is reduced to such a state of dissolution that it enters the cavities made to receive it. From Wordnik.com. [The Physiology of Taste] Reference
If we demand what is understood by sapid bodies, we reply that it is every thing that has flavor, which is soluble, and fit to be absorbed by the organ of taste. From Wordnik.com. [The Physiology of Taste] Reference
The same circumstance obtains in the continued application of sound, or of sapid bodies, or of odorous ones, or of tangible ones, to their adapted organs of sense. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
Spices and specialty items from far-off places are finding new homes in his dishes; he's also using the myriad and sapid flavors of fresh herbs to their best advantage. From Wordnik.com. [Home/News] Reference
Also, by means of the more or less numerous pores which cover it, it becomes impregnated with the sapid and soluble portions of the bodies which it is placed in contact with. From Wordnik.com. [The Physiology of Taste] Reference
“Consequently warm fluids act differently on the sapid bodies presented to them. From Wordnik.com. [The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.] Reference
Brambly red flavors and vivacious aromas that reminded me of the usual red fruits like raspberries, with a sapid acidity. From Wordnik.com. [mondosapore] Reference
"Consequently warm fluids act differently on the sapid bodies presented to them. From Wordnik.com. [The Physiology of Taste] Reference
Not a very sapid bit of gnomic wisdom, certainly. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Rumahama: sapid skip to main. From Wordnik.com. [sapid] Reference
On palate, earthy, minerally, sapid; acidic, nicely tannic. From Wordnik.com. [CellarTracker Tasting Notes (all notes)] Reference
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