Love stories she had read, love affairs she had watched, all seemed savourless compared with her own. From Wordnik.com. [Flowering Wilderness] Reference
Who would write vapid, savourless pages, if it were in his power to set them aglow with rare erudition, and dazzling conceptions of ethical and other abstract subjects?. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
Perhaps by-and-by that will be savourless: we degenerate. From Wordnik.com. [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference
Already she found her vengeance a poor, savourless thing; she felt that it belittled her. From Wordnik.com. [Our Friend the Charlatan] Reference
He marvelled to see with what activity men and women played the most savourless of games!. From Wordnik.com. [Here are Ladies] Reference
And to-night, also, it mattered little, for my mind was preoccupied and a dinner with Lucullus would have been savourless. From Wordnik.com. [The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel] Reference
And then, by His touch, the water of our poor savourless, earthly enjoyments is transmuted and elevated into the new wine of His. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John] Reference
Amusement such as his world offered had always been savourless to him, and he had never sought familiar fellowship beyond his home. From Wordnik.com. [Thyrza] Reference
Robert Maper merely provided that possibility of an innocent double life, without which existence would have been too savourless for. From Wordnik.com. [The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes] Reference
'Scope' was one of Janet's new words, wherewith she would now and then fall to seasoning a serviceable but savourless outworn vocabulary of the common table. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference
Moreover, his style (always under caution given) seems to me flat, savourless, and commonplace; his thought childish, his etceteras (if I may so say) absurd. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century] Reference
Resting his eyes full on Harriet a minute, Andrew dropped them on the savourless white-rimmed chop, which looked as lonely in his plate as its parent dish on the table. From Wordnik.com. [Evan Harrington — Complete] Reference
True, generous feeling is made small account of by some, but here were two natures rendered, the one intolerably acrid, the other despicably savourless for the want of it. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. II.] Reference
What Crabbe and the bulk of the parochial clergy called "a sober and rational conversion" seemed to those who had fallen under the fervid influence of the great Methodist a savourless and ineffectual formality. From Wordnik.com. [English Men of Letters: Crabbe] Reference
What Crabbe and the bulk of the parochial clergy called “a sober and rational conversion” seemed to those who had fallen under the fervid influence of the great Methodist a savourless and ineffectual formality. From Wordnik.com. [Crabbe]
We have all known joys so perturbed, fragmentary and fleeting, that it is hard to distinguish them from sorrows, but there is no need that joys should be like green fruits hard and savourless and ready to drop from the tree. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.] Reference
I had seemed from far back to hear them mostly cry: "We can't have too much of it, we can't have enough of it, and no excess of it, in the form of no matter what savourless dilution, or what boneless dispersion, ever began to injure a book so much as even the very scantest claim put in for form and substance.". From Wordnik.com. [The Awkward Age] Reference
The English young man may revel in his coroneted beauties in photograph shops, the young American dwells fondly on flattering, or very unflattering, reproductions of his multi-millionaires 'wives and daughters in the voluminous illustrated sheets of his Sunday paper, without which life would be a wretched and savourless thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Shuttle] Reference
He saw, as clearly and critically as ever, the pleasant forms and hues and groupings of things, but it was dull and savourless, while all the attractive ideas that sprang up like flowers in his mind, the happy trains of thought, in which some single fancy ramified and extended itself into unsuspected combinations and connections, these all seemed hardly worth recognising or pursuing. From Wordnik.com. [Watersprings] Reference
Mentone was of recent growth -- the old settlement, Mentone of Symonds, proclaims its existence only by a ceaseless and infernal clanging of bells, rivalling Malta -- no history, no character, no tradition -- a mushroom town inhabited by shopkeepers and hôteliers who are there for the sole purpose of plucking foreigners: how should a youngster's imagination be nurtured in this atmosphere of savourless modernism?. From Wordnik.com. [Alone] Reference
"salt that has lost its savour," a poor, savourless presence, and the world will pay no heed, or treat it as something to be despised and. From Wordnik.com. [Things That Matter Most: Devotional Papers] Reference
O ashen savourless alternative. From Wordnik.com. [The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence] Reference
(first, but putrefaction, and, not so much as putrefaction; I shall not be able to send forth so much as ill air, not any air at all, but shall be all insipid, tasteless, savourless, dust; for a while, all worms, and after a while, not so much as worms, sordid, senseless, nameless dust), when I consider the past, and present, and future state of this body, in this world, I am able to conceive, able to express the worst that can befall it in nature, and the worst that can be inflicted on it by man, or fortune. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Letters] Reference
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