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Updated: June 1, 2025
Each foreign house employs an inspector or taster, whose business it is to examine samples of all the teas submitted to the firm for purchase.
In the City Brewery there are certain windows which overlook this garden. These are the windows of the rooms where dwells a chief officer Master Brewer, Master Taster, Master Chemist, I know not of the City Brewery, last of the many breweries which once stood along the river bank.
The delicate offices of our Tatar beauty, the taster, come in at this point to determine how much freshly drawn and cooled milk is to be added in order rightly to temper the sour taste. After standing over night it is ready for use, and is put up in seltzer or champagne bottles, and kept at a temperature of +8 degrees to +12 degrees Reaumur.
The work that was begun must be carried through now, she thought, at all hazards, to its termination; and she immediately set herself at work to devise some means of reaching her victim with poison, which would avoid the taster altogether, and thus not be liable to any interference on his part, dictated either by his fidelity to his master or his fears for himself.
These dishes were received by a gentleman in the same order they were brought, and placed upon the table, while the taster gave to each guard a mouthful to eat of the particular dish he had brought, for fear of any poison."
"Of course of course!" he explained. "I know! Glad to meet you, Mr. Copplestone you don't know me, but I know you or your work well enough. It was I who read and recommended your play to our poor dear friend. It's a little secret, you know," continued Mr. Dennie, laying his packet on the table, "but I have acted for a great many years as Bassett Oliver's literary adviser taster, you might say.
But they had guarded his memory with the vigilance which belongs only to the broken heart, and the traditions of his greatness were fresh among them still. "I likit the ither twa fine," said a shrewd sermon taster to me soon after my arrival, "but their sermons didna plough the soul like the Doctor's; we hae na had the fallow grun' turned up sin' he dee'd." And so said, or thought, they all.
You, who pretend to offer me revenge, know yourself its exquisite sweetness." "I would not presume," said Christian, half smiling, "to offer your Grace a dish without acting as your taster as well as purveyor." "That's honestly said," said the Duke. "Away then, my friend. Give Blood this ring he knows it, and knows how to obey him who bears it.
It takes so long to disentangle the bunches from the leaves and the interlacing vines and the supporting tendrils; and then I like to hold up each bunch and look at it in the sunlight, and get the fragrance and the bloom of it, and show it to Polly, who is making herself useful, as taster and companion, at the foot of the ladder, before dropping it into the basket. But we have other company.
The Sultan who is known as "The Lofty Portal, the Exalted of God, the Noble Presence" has a body of servants and retainers round him: first of all "The Learned Ones," men who advise him, but make a point of ascertaining his wishes before they give an opinion, and are of no use at all except in conducting negotiations; next the officer who carries the great pearl-and-gold-embroidered parasol over his head; next an officer who flicks away flies; then a master of ceremonies, a headsman, a flogger, a shooter, a water-bearer, a tent-layer, a tea-maker, a standard-bearer, and a "taster" to see that no poison is given.
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