When mutton is two years old, the meat is flabby, pale and savorless. From Wordnik.com. [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference
Men are not living in the Kingdom as they should – The savorless salt/sullen lamp. From Wordnik.com. [Parables ���classification of] Reference
It was a wonderful toy and a glorious war, and while we rejoiced in victory when it came, life seemed savorless for a long time afterward. From Wordnik.com. [WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories]
Congress-water, brought by unattractive Ganymedes and sold in the train, -- draughts flat, flabby, and utterly bubbleless, lukewarm heel-taps with a flavor of savorless salt. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference
Most telling was a third variation of the experiment, in which both the Swedes and the Thais were given food that was high in nutrients but consisted of a sticky, savorless paste. From Wordnik.com. [It's all about the eats] Reference
He talks about one study in which groups of Thai and Swedish women were given Thai food, Swedish food, and some other food "that was high in nutrients but consisted of a sticky, savorless paste.". From Wordnik.com. [The Gospel According to Barry, Part 1] Reference
Whitmark had children back East and a wife whom he had married for all the traditions of niceness and denial and abnegation which men demand of the women they expect to marry, and find savorless so often when they are married to it. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman at Eighteen-Mile] Reference
The two candidates were colorless, insipid, and savorless. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Salt which is savorless is fit neither for the land nor the dunghill. From Wordnik.com. [Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI.] Reference
Her deep-dish pies became savorless, the whipped cream smeary and sad of taste. From Wordnik.com. [Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm] Reference
A house without a man is savorless, yet a man in a house is incarnate interruption. From Wordnik.com. [The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers] Reference
For the time being life was savorless, and ambition had gone out like a snuffed candle. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of the Island] Reference
Mr. Royce knew a few of them, too, and introduced me to them, but I found their talk somehow flat and savorless. From Wordnik.com. [The Holladay Case A Tale] 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
Talent, tried and proved and acclaimed, is too strong for us; we continue its savorless round, against all our inward protest. From Wordnik.com. [The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers] Reference
I don't have much to add beyond How savorless would American life be without conspiracy theories that account for the already-explained?. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
And if you lack such a pattern, the end of the war is to you what it was to so many good people, an anticlimax in a dreary and savorless world. From Wordnik.com. [Public Opinion] Reference
She had joined that simple circle over the way; she had mingled in its plain, provincial talk; she had shared its meagre and savorless pleasures. From Wordnik.com. [The Europeans] Reference
He was not in love with her in any legitimate sense; but he knew now that, if he could see her no more, life would be a savorless thing, at least until his fancy had spent itself. From Wordnik.com. [Brand Blotters] Reference
They may look out from the windows upon a great and varied throng, as the beggar munching a crust may look in at a banqueting hall, but the people they are forced to live with are exactly like themselves; and that way lies not only monomania but an ennui that makes the blessing of life savorless. From Wordnik.com. [Hillsboro People] Reference
A savorless people, gulping tasteless food, and sitting afterward, coatless and thoughtless, in rocking-chairs prickly with inane decorations, listening to mechanical music, saying mechanical things about the excellence of Ford automobiles, and viewing themselves as the greatest race in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
A savorless people, gulping tasteless food, and sitting afterward, coatless and thoughtless, in rocking-chairs prickly with inane decorations, listening to mechanical music, saying mechanical things about the excellence of Ford automobiles, and viewing themselves as the greatest race of the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Millions] Reference
The people are savorless and proud of it. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
Though my salt is savorless, why complain?. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Passion] Reference
They may be sour, sooty, sodden, and savorless, soat, welsh, brocken, and lumpy -- and that's mair nor enough, thoo knows. ". From Wordnik.com. [A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time] Reference
It was almost as though Sabine did it on purpose, on purpose, ironically, to set at naught by her conduct the great traditions, the true principles, the savorless duty, the pleasureless labor, the restlessness, the noise, the quarrels, the mooning ways, the healthy pessimism which was the motive power of the Euler family, as it is that of all respectable persons, and made their life a foretaste of purgatory. From Wordnik.com. [Jean-Christophe, Volume I] Reference
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