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Does it not savor something of Devildom, and a too great familiarity with that lower Torrid Zone, to entertain such a proposition cool-ly? when such a word grows suddenly obsolete in such seasons? Perhaps we are tending to those final, fiery days of which Miller is a prophet.
With impatience she felt herself entangled in the endless machinery of wealth and the pleasures of wealth, so easy to set in motion, and so difficult to stop, even when all the savor has gone out of it.
As for Elmira, she did not sleep at all, and came down in the morning with young eyes like stars of love, which no dawn could dim. For six years the memory of that kiss, which had never been repeated, for Elmira had never seen Lawrence alone since, had been to her her sweetest honey savor of life.
But still, moved by an obscure, invincible need, he crept in thickets from which he might watch the life of human beings, feasting his eyes on the fire-splashed bodies of men and women, listening to the songs and the laughter, filling his nostrils with the savor of his kind, as a damned spirit might creep back to the warmth of life from a desolate hereafter. But what did he see now?
Why should I not satisfy your curiosity and your relish of a sharp jest? But rather than do the smallest thing which might savor of treachery ten times rather the axe or the gallows!" And Caracalla replied with a dark frown, loudly and briefly: "I promise."
He was an individualist of the most pronounced type. The penalty of this type of mind is narrowness; the advantage is the personal flavor imparted to the written page. Thoreau's books contain plenty of the pepper and salt of character and contrariness; even their savor of whim and prejudice adds to their literary tang.
"Cousin Evelina never sees callers," she said, with grave courtesy; "perhaps you did not know. She has not for a great many years." "Yes, I did know it," returned Thomas Merriam; "that's the reason I haven't called." "Cousin Evelina is not strong," remarked the young girl, and there was a savor of apology in her tone. "But " stammered Thomas; then he stopped again.
"He is evidently getting old," said I to my wife; "his judgment is not what it used to be." At all events, our place was bought, and we moved out, well pleased, the first morning in April, not at all remembering the ill savor of that day for matters of wisdom. Our place was a pretty cottage, about two miles from the city, with grounds that had been tastefully laid out.
It persuades, or it does not; one is attuned to it, or one is not. For those who do savor and value it, it is reasonable only to attempt some such notation of its qualities as is offered here.
Some one stepped into the hall panting, and the face of William Savor showed itself at the door of the room where they stood. "Doc Doctor Morrell, come come quick! There's been an accident at the depot. Mr.
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