| 单词 | pungency |
| 例句 | Incense rising with the pungency of irrational hope. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Speaking of words, the pungency of the Adams prose comes through so impressively in the correspondence in part because Adams invested himself in the exchange more than Jefferson. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “There’s a pungency left by a pig that nothing can wash out or cover up.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In that moment, as elsewhere in this set, Ms. Crowe did not dig deeply enough into the pungency of the German text, so the emotion ended up passing without impact. Music Review: The Soprano Lucy Crowe Gives Her New York Recital Debut 2014-04-10T23:14:25Z Jackson is more moving in her reunion and final moments with Morfydd Clark’s Cordelia, but the strenuous pungency of Warner’s hectic production drowns out the tenderness. A tale of two Lears: Glenda Jackson and Antony Sher scale Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z The piece ends in resignation, although the seemingly calm chords are spiked with pungency. Review: John Adams Unveils ‘Scheherazade.2,’ an Answer to Male Brutality 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z The cheeses varied in pungency but it was impossible to decipher the nuances; chilling cheese inhibits flavor. On the Normandy Cheese Trail 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z What it misses, he realizes, is the pungency of detail, the pungency of his childhood in England, when every object seemed invested with meaning: the sound of the trains at night, his mother’s shoes. In ‘Serious Noticing,’ James Wood Closely Reads Chekhov and Others — Including Himself 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z The key to making the dish is to not be afraid of its pungency and spice. Puttanesca is the spicy, from-the-pantry pasta sauce you should have in your back pocket 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Everything in them – the textures, the rhythms, the phrasing – needs sharper outlines and greater pungency than these overpolite Nashville Symphony performances ever manage. Piazzolla: Sinfonia Buenos Aires; Concerto for Bandoneon; Las Cuatro Estaciones Porte?as 2010-09-23T21:55:00Z But any lugubriousness was dispelled by unexpected rhythmic pungencies, and balanced by the wondrous serenity of William Byrd and Thomas Tomkins. CBSO/Knussen; Monteverdi Choir/Gardiner – review 2012-06-19T16:37:30Z A dish like this stew needs a wine that can cut through its creamy pungency. Traveling the World for Recipes, but Always Looking for Home 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z It is written with elegance and often pungency, the pitch-perfect dialogue ranging from the waggishly epigrammatic to the bluntly outraged. John le Carré’s Last Completed Spy Novel Crowns a Career Attuned to Moral Ambivalence 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z I ask her over and over, until I’m dizzy with its unrecognizable pungency.” Two Memoirs of Chinese American Hunger, Three Decades Apart 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z The book takes its time getting on the highway, and the slow pace is exacerbated by Katharine McEwan’s demure and deliberate narration, which drains some of the pungency from Hartman’s prose. Audiobooks for Summer Trips With the Kids 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z It's the smell of moshpit and impending riot that you get in milder form at many rock fests, but Reading's strain has a certain pungency and insidiousness. Reading festival 2012: the smell of Sunday 2012-08-27T15:03:44Z This pale golden vinegar made in partnership with Lindera Farms, which forages the ramps in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, has an aroma and flavor distinguished with mild pungency. Dress Your Spring Salads With Zeal, a Ramp Vinegar 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z It’s got a milder, herbal taste compared with the classic pungency of aioli. When Mild Hake and Bold Asparagus Meet, Opposites Attract 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z What they are is wildly trendy, an “it” vegetable to a generation of chefs who are drawn to their mix of prettiness and pungency. Know Your Onions (and Shallots and Leeks and Ramps) 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z All are soft cow’s milk cheeses that vary in shape and pungency. On the Normandy Cheese Trail 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z The pungency of garlic bread was another surprise – “It used to be just bread with a bit of flavour.” ‘I’ve been told bacon smells lovely’ – life without a sense of smell 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z The saffron is intensely red with arresting pungency. Saffron Harvested by Female Farmers 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z No matter which beets you use, the dressing — an assertive mix of lime juice, anchovies and garlic — adds just the right pungency to perk up all the honeyed flavors, especially those of the squash. A Hearty Salad for a Month of Healthy Eating 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z When alliums are lightly dressed, their flavor shines through, with just enough glorious pungency — and absolutely no tears. Know Your Onions (and Shallots and Leeks and Ramps) 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z Filipino dishes, after all, not only draw inspiration from Spanish, Chinese and Malay cuisines but also channel spice, sourness and pungency, three of the trendiest flavors in American dining. At long last, Filipino food arrives. What took it so long? 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Even sweet potatoes would be excellent, giving a honeyed contrast next to all that anchovy and garlic pungency. Got Potatoes and Tuna? You’re Most of the Way to Dinner 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Adults who aren’t easily offended can savor the pungency of every rude, raunchy, politically incorrect line as “Avenue Q” jauntily douses the “Sesame Street” glow that people 50 and younger basked in as kids. Olney Theatre Centre’s production of ‘Avenue Q’ offers politically incorrect laughs Its pungency would smother the flavors of the wine. A Crowd-Pleaser With the Right Stuff 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z In this exhibition one feels again their pungency and company, and our dependency on them. Ice age carvings: strange yet familiar 2013-02-16T08:01:02Z The brightness and pungency of the pepper-laced tomato sauce, the chew of the pasta, the verdancy of the fresh parsley — it's all as fresh as a daisy. Beyond bolognese: A primer to 6 delectable, lesser-known pasta sauces that deserve some love 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z The wine is textured and aromatic, fresh and refreshing with flavors of citrus and sauvignon blanc pungency. 20 Under $20: Beckoning Bottles in the Dead of Winter 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z If a musical language is saturated with seventh chords, then the harshness of that embedded interval becomes the norm, not the exception, which softens the dissonance without sacrificing the pungency. Musical Dissonance, From Schumann to Sondheim 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Because of its pungency and sturdiness, it's favored for stir-frying or boiling. Get to know these 9 types of mustard greens 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z On Thursday, the passage was without pungency or urgency. Music Review: Bernard Haitink Leads the New York Philharmonic 2014-05-09T21:23:31Z For more arcane references, footnotes can only add to the pungency of the humour and the social commentary. Poem of the week: Twenty-eight and Twenty-Nine by Winthrop Mackforth Praed 2011-01-04T10:56:26Z Yet the harmony lingered, and the pungency of the clashing notes was strangely beautiful, almost comforting. Anthony Tommasini’s Musical Moments 2012-11-16T16:10:59Z The result was a refreshing, invigorating wine, with a bright pungency that seems ready-made for Greek cooking in all its garlicky, herbal glory. Great Retsina, an Oxymoron No More 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Ms. Majok has engineered her plot to lead naturally to moments of intense and complicated pungency. Review: In ‘Cost of Living,’ a Familiar Alienation 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z With this dish, I like sparkling wine — Champagne, cava or dry crémants would be great with the sweet pungency of the tamarind sauce. Ottolenghi’s Formula for Easy, Delicious Dishes 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z With each alacritous tale of somebody trying to tame or take a Hammons, a kind of pungency set in. ‘The Melt Goes On Forever’ Review: David Hammons Makes, and They Take 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z The food is plenty accessible, never going over the wild edge of spices or pungency. Little Uncle: The restaurant is tiny, but the flavors are big 2012-01-24T22:49:03Z How have I come to cherish his warm but lightly offensive pungency? Who’s a good boy? The unbreakable bond between humans and dogs 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z It’s there in a menu of the plumpest langoustine, wrapped in slivers of shitake, alongside the light pungency of cauliflower. OFM awards 2014 best restaurant: the Ledbury 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z Both the bratwurst and the wiener, reminiscent of a hot dog that spent a semester abroad, have a pleasantly snappy casing and a peppery pungency. Just in time for Oktoberfest: A ‘chic’ Ballston beer hall for the masses 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Knowing all that adds pungency and even a bit of his trademark irony to songs like the title track, “You Want It Darker.” I already knew Leonard Cohen was dead on Election Day — then things got worse 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z A handful of slivered shallot or red onion adds pungency, while fresh parsley leaves brighten everything up. The Best Salad Croutons Are Actually Cheese 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z The choral writing added pungency to the score. Review: ‘Eurydice,’ a New Opera, Looks Back All Too Tamely 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z The complex flavors of this dish, combining creaminess, umami and the slightly bitter pungency of asparagus, require an incisive white wine, with little discernible oak, as the tannins will clash. Umami Is Often a Flavor Bomb. In This Creamy Pasta, It’s a Balm. 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Its pungency nicely balances the sweetness of the fruit and the creaminess of the cheese. The herb you need to take a second look at 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Maybe a little mustard or sliced onion, but never any stuffing, which he said diluted the pungency of the bird that he’d slathered in garlic and rosemary before roasting. Your Thanksgiving May Be Classic, but Your Leftovers Don’t Have to Be 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z The color is as bright as ever in this new sweet red onion grown in the Netherlands, but the typical bold pungency is absent. Onions Without the Tears 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z As Richard is brought low and haggard, accumulating wisdom as he loses rank and ultimately his life, Mount’s performance cannily gains power and pungency. A solid, wrenching ‘Richard II’ at Seattle Shakespeare Co. 2014-01-16T21:34:58Z The Second, with its long lines, is more gratifying, even if the melodies retain some of that pungency. Review: Steven Osborne Is Joined by 2 Collaborators at Kaplan Penthouse 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z But if these soloists were slicker, they were duller, too, and there was less pungency in this chorus and orchestra’s securely massed sound. Music Review: Trinity Wall Street and Musica Sacra in ?Messiah? - Review 2011-12-21T22:43:12Z But the orchestra injects soft stirrings of tension and harmonic pungency into this transfixing passage. Music Review: Colin Davis Conducts the Berlioz Requiem at St. Paul’s 2012-06-27T22:51:51Z Musically, it’s almost always satisfying, and the seven-member orchestra plays Weill’s music with an appealing pungency. Theater Review: Atlantic Theater’s Decadent, Decorous ‘Threepenny Opera’ 2014-04-08T02:00:15Z But there was also pungency in Mr. Scofield’s solo, which he phrased in a spiky staccato, hanging slightly behind the beat. Review: John Scofield, Brad Mehldau and Mark Guiliana Debut as an All-Star Trio 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z The pungency of this pork dish calls for a white with richness and plenty of acidity. The Best Pork Chops Aren’t Actually Chops 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z She was dressed like an encrusted elf, and she was backed by a band that applied bar-rock pungency to her pop hits. At Jingle Ball, Finding Out Who’s Learned to Play Nice 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z Late-blooming garlic chives sported little white starbursts perched above nascent garlic bulblets, each one an explosion of pungency. Flowers that are pretty enough to eat Indians were slandered for the pungency of their spices. The Sriracha Argument for Immigration 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z The funk of the pickled fish is wonderfully shocking, its pungency combined with the chiles, lemongrass and lime leaf, making it sharp, vibrant and addictive. Tiffani Thiessen fed me fried chicken, cheesy enchiladas, beef jerky and a Michelin tasting menu. We had leftovers 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z Absorb the amount of pungency that this tiny poem promises, add plenty of spicy heat and enjoy. Behind Seattle’s best burger lies more greatness: exemplary Lao food 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z Mustard seeds comes in a variety of colors, sizes and pungencies. All about mustard: The condiment with potential to change up your cooking 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Every bit of this hearty braise is infused with allium pungency thanks to four whole bunches of scallions. Spice cabinet shortcut speeds up this Kurdish braise: Cardamom-lime chicken and white beans 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z The team’s thick, almost spreadable toum cranks up the volume on the stinking rose, allowing its pungency and pigheaded perfume to accessorize a number of dishes. Review | Yasmine is a kebab house inside Union Market, and so much more 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Spence says he is not sure about the reason, but “maybe the roughness of sandpaper matches with the pungency of ginger biscuits or the roughness in the mouth of black coffee.” Flavor-Enhancing Spoons and Chopsticks Could Make Food Taste Better 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z Wait just a day too long, though, and it starts to brown, emitting a pungency that registers more as feet than fruit. Try New Fruit. The Weirder, the Better. 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z The clean-rooms where buds are processed are heavy with resinous pungency. Israeli bigwigs eye profits from cannabis legalization 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z I liked the idea of getting all that extra nutrition — the vitamins, the fiber — without the punishing pungency. Learning to Love G.M.O.s 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z Crushed coconut, fresh cilantro and lemon juice form a base that gains heat from green chiles and additional pungency from onions and vinegar. Staff picks: 8 condiments we swear by and how to use them 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Trump’s acceptance address was notable mostly for its anger and pungency. Five takeaways from the final night of the RNC 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z The spunky dressing is made with garlic and ginger for pungency and honey for sweetness. Soba noodles, tomatoes, zucchini and bright vinegar make this pasta salad fit for summer 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Gong’s oil, he tells me, incorporates at least 50 ingredients: some to sweeten, some to perfume, some to add a contrasting strain of pungency. Review | Astoria is a craft cocktail bar with a killer Sichuan menu 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z Don’t overlook Bilavarn’s papaya salad, a crisp, fragrant muddle underscored with the pungency of shrimp paste and fish sauce. 5 restaurants driving L.A.’s food conversation: Patricia Escárcega’s list 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z The aftertaste includes a slight medicinal pungency, like a freshly scoured hospital room. The official spicy snack power rankings 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z The complexity was impressive: There was sweetness, pungency, meatiness and the clean, cooling rush of pine needles. Review | Fahrenheit Asian is a delicious mother-daughter reunion, with the best mapo tofu in the D.C. area 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Without the sweet pungency of those browned onions — and, obviously, without Burger King’s grill flavor — the Impossible patties were the main attraction, a mixed blessing. Perspective | Burger King’s Impossible Whopper tastes even better than the real thing 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z I’m particularly fond of his mushroom-and-onion combination, which is complemented with the sweet, muted pungency of roasted garlic. Review | The mouthwatering Taste of Urbanspace will help you forget Mike Isabella’s shuttered food court 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z By contrast, the shell-on shrimp are garnished with loads of coarsely chopped garlic, blurring the line between pungency and sweetness. Review | Four Seasons pampers a whole new generation at the Eden Center 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z There is a growing market for peppers that have been cultivated expressly for pungency. The Family Business That Put Nashville Hot Chicken on the Map 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Writing in the journal Trends in Plant Science, the researchers say chilli peppers are labour-intensive and difficult crops to cultivate, and it is tricky to keep the pungency of the fruits consistent. Gene editing could create 'spicy tomatoes', say researchers 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Brandli disguises her political pungency with comedy — the perfect medium to massage an important message across the footlights. 99-Seat Beat: Genderless space creatures, mythic New Jerseyites, bickering Hungarians, and more - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z The article continued at considerable length and pungency. Seven Ways The Village Voice Made New York a Better Place 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Recently the Carter Center’s office in Sarh, a provincial capital in southern Chad, filled with an aquatic pungency as Dr. Eberhard and Mr. Cleveland gutted and skinned 13 frogs. Nearly Eradicated in Humans, the Guinea Worm Finds New Victims: Dogs 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z Wind and time bestow on the meat a layer of greenish mold, and a pungency somewhere between Parmesan cheese and death. Koks, the World’s Most Remote Foodie Destination 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z The kitchen substitutes olive or vegetable oil for mustard oil, instantly dialing down the pungency of its dishes. Review | Moh Moh Licious takes an unorthodox approach to Nepali cuisine 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Perilla leaves added pungency to a lime-dressed cucumber, tomato and radish salad. Latest iteration of Ba Bar fits well in University Village 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z You will aim to get as much of the fragrant skin as possible between your teeth, and the experience is of salt, crunch and garlic, overlaid with the pungency of dried peppers. Where to have brunch on Jonathan Gold's 101 Best Restaurants list 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z The beer was sweet and nearly flat, which would have been forgivable, if not for its strange, fruity pungency. Cheers to Beers! 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Worse, the cumin seeds were applied as if they were as precious as saffron threads: The seeds were so few, the dish was deprived of its musky pungency. Review | At these two long-recommended D.C. eateries, be careful about what you order 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z The meen kuzhambu, or Chettinad-style fish curry, buzzes with two kinds of pungency: the chile powder incorporated into the thin sauce and the black mustard seeds that bob on its surface. Review | A delicious taste of South India — with meat included 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z “Animal feces are also part of the diet of some slug species,” he says, which probably adds a certain pungency to a slug’s bouquet. Inside the Strange World of Slug Sex and Slime 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z They’re closer to ground beef patties, crisped up and concealing small bursts of controlled pungency. Dera Restaurant: A trailblazing and terrific Pakistani eatery 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z The beer’s fruity pungency earns it the street tag “banana beer.” Cheers to Beers! 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z The Vietnamese food found here makes for an expeditious trip to that country’s tastes and textures, the cuisine’s pungencies and subtleties, the glorious heaps of fresh herbs. 3 Seattle restaurants that make you feel like you’re far, far away 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z One journalist wrote at the time the factory produced "a very distinctive pungency to the surrounding atmosphere". Crossrail dig unearths 13,000 Victorian jam jars - BBC News 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z What Kander captures is the pungency of the new president’s character, the open way he displays wealth and power. Time magazine didn't give Trump devil horns. God did | Jonathan Jones 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z My dad’s Cubano sandwich, a ciabatta roll stuffed with layers of pulled pork, ham, Swiss cheese, red onion, and dill pickle slices, hit all the right notes of salt, smoke, and pungency. Review: Marley’s Cafe Is a Sweet Spot With a Reggae Soundtrack 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z The spinach gorgonzola is a modest metal bowl of the fresh greens, thin slivers of red onion and pancetta, all tossed in a blue-cheese dressing on the mild side of the pungency spectrum. Pizza CS review: A salute to Naples off Rockville Pike 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Most commercial extracts don’t come in degrees of dankness or pungency. Craft Brewers Go High-Tech 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z This is an IPA that’s all about the aroma, with citrus and tropical fruit scents layered with delicate floral notes and a deeper pungency. Three new IPAs in a can to drink now 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Garlic’s pungency seemed un-American and uncivilized, and the strong smell was seen as evidence of Italians’ inferiority. How America became Italian 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z The fillings balance their kimchi pungency with funk suppressants such as crumbled pork, bean curd and bean sprouts. Lotte Plaza: Where the food finds you 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z He then measured effects on flavor pungency and overall crop yield. UCVoice: The Hunt For A Hotter Jalapeño 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z Findlay tasted some 400 to 500 bulbs every season in order to select those with lower pungency. There's Now an Onion That Doesn't Make You Cry 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z It’s not exactly hot, but more like a warm pungency. How We Sense the Heat of Chili Peppers and the Cool of Menthol [Excerpt] 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Green peppercorns tend to lend a fresh, green flavor as well as some pungency. Test Kitchen tip: Peppercorns 101 (and a recipe) 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Okay perhaps not so much rotten, but there are a number of issues certainly fermenting with some pungency. Are Millennial Programmers Afraid Of Green Screens And Mainframes? 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z While the data is encouraging, Baameur is concerned too much extra nitrogen is needed to bring such small pungency gains. UCVoice: The Hunt For A Hotter Jalapeño 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z But as I devour one charred morsel after another, I’m struck by the meat’s complex mustard-oil pungency and its pronounced sourness, which rattles the edges of my tongue with a watery, metallic tang. Namaste scales the highest peaks in search of authentic Nepali cooking 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z For Floridians, it may be the sweetness of mangoes in Miami, the salt-sprinkled air of the Keys, the pungency of the Everglades. After 150 Years of Rolling Them, Tampa Is Close to No Cigars 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Yogurt and Bean Dressing With Thai Flavors: Sriracha sauce, lately popular with chefs, adds spice and pungency to this dressing. A Better Ranch Dressing 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Having illuminated pungency genetics, they no longer had to wait for plants to grow up and work their taste buds overtime simply to find out if the peppers were spicy or not. Creating Tastier and Healthier Fruits and Veggies With a Modern Alternative to GMOs 2014-01-23T05:00:00Z Other reports tied higher potassium levels to pungency. UCVoice: The Hunt For A Hotter Jalapeño 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z But the kitchen accentuates the oil’s inherent pungency with complementary bursts of piquancy: spring onions, red onions, garlic, an allium block party threatening to go rouge. Namaste scales the highest peaks in search of authentic Nepali cooking 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Pickled Baby Turnips or Radishes: The natural pungency of turnips contrasts beautifully with the vinegary brine. Well: Pickle Recipes for Health 2013-05-10T16:12:42Z They need more pungency, more guts, more lacerating properties, if you will. Soccer Outsider: United-Impact match diary 2012-04-20T20:11:47Z Knowing that Mazourek was a plant breeder interested in pepper pungency, the New Mexico scientists thought he might like to study the tame habaneros himself. Creating Tastier and Healthier Fruits and Veggies With a Modern Alternative to GMOs 2014-01-23T05:00:00Z Baameur saw the greatest success with a 50 percent nitrogen boost, which caused a 20 percent increase in pungency and a 10 percent increase in overall crop production. UCVoice: The Hunt For A Hotter Jalapeño 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z Modern history furnishes only too many illustrations of the same truth.89.“That quick sensibility which is the groundwork of all advances towards perfection increases the pungency of pains and vexations.” History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z You need only recall the pungency of his reading of Beethoven's Scherzo in the Sonata Opus 31, No. 3. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z All his wit and warmth, his pungency and directness, his knowledge and his solid sense come into play. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Or the crispy tilapia, a generous portion of two seasoned filets, battered and fried and slathered in a similar brown sauce, without the basil but with caramelized ginger adding another dimension of sweetness and pungency. | Belleville: A Review of Topaz Thai Restaurant, in Belleville 2012-03-10T01:27:57Z The work abounds in salutary counsels, expressed with pungency and force. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z If deficient, it is in directness and pungency of appeal, in holy pathos, in solemn and subduing unction. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z His humor dwelt, nevertheless, in the borderlands of irony, and it was conceivable that the rubs of later life might enrich its pungency at the cost of its kindliness. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z Thacher.—The roots and seeds, when fresh, impart to the mouth a sensation of pungency and acrimony similar to Arum. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z Twenty-five, with an excellent record, nice-mannered and good-looking, but the unfortunate possessor of a cockney accent of remarkably pungency. The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z He replenished it with stately argument and thrilling verse, and sprinkled it over with sententious wisdom and proverbial pungency. Recitations for the Social Circle 2012-01-17T03:00:22.643Z A woman is the better for a spice of the devil!'—an aphorism, which we have owed at first to some gentleman who, like my father, had slender experience in the pungencies of female character. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z But, for plain pungency of humor, it would have been difficult to surpass his speech. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:35.370Z The pungency of the plant was probably concentrated by the closeness of the room, in which many specimens were at the time shut up.—Veg. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z The air was instinct with seduction, faintly touched by the pungency of Ron Bacardi and limes, and bland with the vapors of delightful cigars. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z This produces a leaf of great pungency and strength. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z The gestures of submission, respect, and supplication with which I accompanied this speech had no power to mollify the pungency of its significance. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z There is a simplicity, an animation, and a pungency in them, which, if seconded by a suitable elocution, must have made a powerful impression on the hearts of his hearers. Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. 2011-10-13T02:00:37.230Z It has an agreeable pungency of taste, with a slight bitterness, and is much used in sauces, along with boiled mutton, &c.—n. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z Sensible vividness or pungency is then the vital factor in reality when once the conflict between objects, and the connecting of them together in the mind, has begun.” The pragmatic theory of truth as developed by Peirce, James, and Dewey 2011-09-29T02:00:12.190Z He was tired, and he felt thoroughly uncomfortable, as noisy horse-play and badinage began, and waxed in volume and pungency. Cupid in Africa 2011-09-28T02:00:21.467Z She taught this man how to imitate Gratarol's dress and gestures, and turned what may in fact have been an innocent production of Gozzi's pen into a satire of the most insulting pungency. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z "Do you mean that for an evasion?" asked Pauline with a tart pungency that she at once regretted as almost discourteous. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z Every one knows that if the smoke of a pipe be passed through water in a peculiar way, it loses its pungency, and you can inhale it with more comfort: this is the hookah. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z The following instant his head was surrounded by a halo of fine particles, the pungency of which was apparent to the surprised spectators almost at once. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z You are also made aware that the skunk has been abroad, that reynard is somewhere to windward, and by an undescribed, generally unrecognized, pungency in the air that a gray squirrel lives in your neighborhood. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z Donna Redel, who became the first woman to head the exchange in the early 1990s, said the trading floor smelled like sweat and had “the pungency of fear.” Succeeding Blankfein at Goldman May Be Hurdle Too High for Cohn 2011-07-24T23:22:06Z When will the fallacy be destroyed which gauges the strength of a disinfectant by the pungency of its odour? Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women 2011-07-20T02:00:13.547Z The salutary instructions of the immortal Mr Barlow, of ‘Sandford and Merton’ fame, shine forth as very masterpieces of sparkling pungency when contrasted with your latter-day harangues. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z Coming at length to a narrow flight of steps leading downwards, the fact that he was nearing the object of his quest was borne in upon his sense with ever-increasing pungency. King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane 2011-06-17T02:00:22.043Z There was no mist, but a night-wind blew mournfully through palm and cypress, carrying with it the strange, disturbing pungency of the jungle—wild, unfamiliar perfumes,—the acrid aroma of swamp and rotting mould. The Slayer Of souls 2011-06-01T02:00:26.487Z Its introduction as "Emperor Violin" had a force and pungency which tickled the professionals, and what surpasses all belief is, that they themselves crowned the work. George Gem?nder's Progress in Violin Making With Interesting Facts Concerning the Art and Its Critics in General 2011-05-20T02:00:32.993Z In order to add to the pungency of the tobacco which they are in the habit of chewing, the Laplanders mix with it the root of Angelica. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland 2011-05-10T02:01:00.460Z It waved the red flag of digestive anarchy from the end of every bone and fin, and fortunately for me the very pungency of its aroma took care of my hunger for the moment. From Pillar to Post Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book 2011-05-05T02:00:21.620Z I fancy he ended by failing to find a thing sufficiently regrettable to express the pungency of the moment. The Sea Lady 2011-04-22T02:00:07.843Z Florentine wit and humor lend a certain pungency to all the products of the golden age. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Naturalism is a philosophy of observation, and of an imagination that extends the observable; all the sights and sounds of nature enter into it, and lend it their directness, pungency, and coercive stress. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z His erudition was large but ill-digested; his knowledge of the ancient authors, if extensive, was superficial; his style was vulgar; he had no brilliancy of imagination, no pungency of epigram, no grandeur of rhetoric. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z In fact, it is hilarious with fun, while its pungency in satire is remarkable for keenness, and for the incisive way in which every point is driven home.” The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel 2011-03-01T03:00:46.487Z Ho! ho!' he sniggered, with purely intellectual appreciation of the pungency. The Grandchildren of the Ghetto 2011-02-12T03:00:35.663Z I confess to even a man's hungry partiality for them,—these roses of humanity, their genus and species emphasized by but the faintest differing pungency of temper and common sense,—mere crumpling of the rose-leaves. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z “Now you can drink,” said the Author, and set himself to mix a drink of a pungency that he would have considered murderous ten minutes before. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z The Pumpkonion promises well and seems likely to combine the amplitude of the pumpkin with the pungency of the onion. Mr. Punch's Country Life 2010-12-20T17:12:17.723Z Drank until my teeth and my whole mouth had turned a dark ruby red and the pungency of my breath and perspiration betrayed my passing years. Gary Shteyngart: “Kokiri.” 2010-06-07T04:00:00Z But not everyone is convinced about its pungency. India harnesses numerous uses of chilli power 2010-03-24T12:47:00Z Many species produce gums and resins, their stems being encrusted with the exudations, and pungency and aromatic odour is an almost universal quality of the plants of desert regions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" The biographer gives that literary Samson full applause for the strength of his understanding, the boldness of his morality, and the pungency of his wit. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 He was a man of genius, of quick intelligence and vivacity, with a great deal of wit and pungency in his writings, and at the same time great candour.—Pliny, Readings from Latin Verse With Notes From somewhere at his back, in the vaultlike recesses of the building, drifted the heavy pungency of incense burning at a shrine. The Key to Yesterday After that he fills the lamp, lights that and a cigar of fearful pungency, and settles his great limbs in the chair of state. A Man in the Open Some of his sayings remind us not a little of Schopenhauer in their pungency and sharpness. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy A choking, composite odor—I detected the sick pungency of chloroform—emerged from it. The Book of Susan A Novel One brother arose to testify, in a series of whoops, to the pungency of “de brudder’s doctorin’,” and immediately went to bed to a mass of excruciating hurts on the outskirts of the assembly. K. K. K. Sketches, Humorous and Didactic Treating the More Important Events of the Ku-Klux-Klan Movement in the South. With a Discussion of the Causes which gave Rise to it, and the Social and Political Issues Emanating from it. My writings were always marked by freedom, boldness, pungency, and satire upon public manners; at the same time, moral and playful in expression. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second There is no dispute as to its curious literary flavour, its mixed qualities of pungency, bitterness, pity and, in places, unflinching shamelessness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" While the grandees of Portugal were blind to the ruin which impended over them, Camo�ns beheld it with a pungency of grief which hastened his end. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem Shakespeare speaks only of its thickness, but others have celebrated its pungency. Folk-lore of Shakespeare He tested the snuff for himself, and discovered that the fire had largely improved its pungency and aroma. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 The nauseous brew combined the maximum elements of wetness, coldness, stickiness and pungency. The Ego Machine If a story demands space, space it must have, but the essence of literary power and artistry is to write with the utmost brevity and pungency compatible with adequate expression. The Technique of Fiction Writing In some cases cardamom and pepper seeds are added to the quid to give it pungency. The Pearl of India Land everywhere was being cleared, the felled trees lying about, the whirl of a portable sawmill telling their destiny, while burning stumps filled the air with creosote pungency. The House of Fulfilment The night wore on—the Eastern night of cloudless moonlight with the scents of the earth rising from harvested fields to mingle with the pungency of smouldering fires. Banked Fires Major Frampton might or might not have been born in the Old Dominion—that was a matter for consideration and inquiry—but there could be no question as to the mellow pungency of the peach-brandy. Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches He would understand, by analogy, the pungency of other things, besides Irish blackguard or Scotch rappee. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature By trimming the smaller branches the productiveness of the main portion is improved, and the pungency of the bark is increased. The Pearl of India This often produces wit, and that quick pungency which excites surprise, but strikes with conviction; this gives it an epigrammatic turn. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 What language have I heard to-day, what illiberality of sentiment, what pungency of expression! The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) The air was full of bush scents, and somewhere, not far from where I stood, dead brushwood was burning and diffusing abroad the aromatic pungency that fire draws from eucalyptus leaves. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography But after a moment he found that the oranges possessed a pungency and zestful flavor that he had tasted in no others. Wild Oranges He ate his supper, choking down the food, for her dear sake, missing strangely Cousin Jane's pungency and seasoning. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart He pursues the same method in poetry,—that is, strives for strong light or shade, for high color, perfume, pungency, in all ways for the greatest immediate effect. Whitman A Study He told his story with a spirit and military conciseness that riveted my attention as much as the real pungency of the incidents. Tales from Blackwood, Volume 7 Polyporus Berkeleii, Fr., is intensely pungent when raw, but when young, and before the pores are visible, it may be eaten with impunity, all its pungency being dissipated by cooking. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses At the same instant came an elusive whiff of pungency on the chill. The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories The odour of resinous wood, so strong as to be sickly, came to her, and its pungency was not the ordinary scent of the forest about her. The Hound From The North An illustration, like a funny story, loses its pungency if it requires a scholium. College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College Flood, in the bitterest pungency of political epigram, charged Grattan with having sold himself to the people, and then sold the people to the minister for prompt payment. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 But observe to proportion the quantities to the pungency of the several sorts. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families Aimed at the old eternal vices and frailties of humanity, they assail them with a pungency, a force, a wit, and a directness which, in English verse, have no parallel. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History They give no idea of the vigour and pungency and freedom with which he could speak or let himself loose or think aloud as he did to me. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice No homely pungency of wood-smoke breathed welcome on the bitter air. The Backwoodsmen His sermons were written out with great accuracy, but were perhaps deficient in pungency of application. The History of Dartmouth College It may be used with most telling effect in sermons to give point and pungency to the thought of the preacher. Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul With the strange, savage smell of the cages in his nostrils, that bitter, acrid pungency to which his senses never grew blunted, a new spirit of understanding was wont to enter Tomaso’s brain. Kings in Exile He first perceived that it contained within its fibres the pungency of the nutmeg. The Busted Ex-Texan and Other Stories The only one extant was written by Garrick, and has been preserved, very probably, by its pungency: Here lies poet Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll; He wrote like an angel, but talked like poor Poll. All About Coffee To Ransome's senses it was as if the faint, the delicate colors of the place gave a more frightful grossness and pungency to its smell. The Combined Maze It was flopping its lance-leaves against the panes; puffs of the breeze brought in a suggestion of its pungency. The Readjustment The plant requires heat and a damp atmosphere, but exposure to the sun or dry winds would wither it, and destroy the flavour and pungency of the leaf. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains These debasing and corrupting appendages of civilization spent not all their influence upon the white man; and this is what gave pungency to the withering satire of the chief. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes The smoke darkened and rose in a thick column; there was a curious pungency in the air. Uncanny Tales It was a blowy, showery March day, its lips puckered for weeping or laughter at any moment, the air full of the dainty pungencies of new life. Judith of the Cumberlands The natives chew it, and throw it into a wooden mortar, where it is left to ferment, some leaves of tobacco being added to give it pungency. Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History His strange, wild, grand performances, "The Bottle" and "The Drunkard's Children,"—the first quite Hogarthian in its force and pungency,—fell like thunderbolts among the gin-shops. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 There were, occasionally, flashes of his former customary, sarcastic pungency; now and again he would rouse himself to be ill-natured, antagonistic, and self-willed. The Bertrams He often brushes the eyes of his pursuers with it when sprinkled with water anything but sweet, and which, by its pungency, for a time blinds them. Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. "The stories will be welcomed with a sense of refreshing pungency by readers who have been cloyed by a too long succession of insipid sweetness and familiar incident." Duffels Who concentrates more pungency, or collects more sweets than the busy bee? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 He can say daring things in a daring manner, and give the pungency of epigram to his political paradoxes. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 There is the same pungency of diction, the same picturesque power. The Uncalled A Novel But while all this tended to make them more instructive, and in so far more useful companions, it also took from the salt of individuality somewhat of its pungency. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life Some of his religious tracts are written with great eloquence and pungency. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 Her companions, successful by their very neglect to toil for success, will doubtless apply to her, and with some pungency, the epithet of “old maid.” The Young Maiden Of course the strength and pungency of the snuff will depend a good deal upon the richness of the tobacco originally put aside for it. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce There was soon an animated discussion, and it became highly amusing from the Frenchman’s astonishment at Picro’s odd pungency of statement, which Tito translated literally. Romola The adulterations most commonly used to give bitterness are gentian, wormwood, and quassia; to impart pungency, ginger, orange-peel, and caraway. Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life She listened now—and nodded at Mrs. Leverett's reasoning, adding the pungency of her sniff. A Little Girl in Old Boston Toward morning there came a quiet life-giving rain that freshened the parched earth and brought out the pungency of the pine trees. The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp The monks of the convents are famous for the production of a snuff, which for pungency, at least, is far superior to the snuffs of Europe. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce Their pleasant pungency is like a bugle note. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy His speeches were remarkable for their pungency and wit, and when the question of slavery was under discussion his soul took fire. Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 The owner was grateful at hearing such good things said about himself, though the eulogy was flavoured with a pungency of language that was not intended for delicate ears. The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century The smell of cooking food was in the air, mingled with the aromatic pungency of many fires of wood. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain In truth sorrow is not desirable, but taken apart its pungency may appear savoury. My Reminiscences This part of the process resulted in the production of a most appalling smell, which was not lessened in pungency when the odour of singed brown paper was added to that of melting sulphur. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile A few notes scribbled on a pad were sufficient for him to render the sense of a speech with keen accuracy and frequently with a fire and a pungency that surpassed the original. Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times. The air had a perceptible pungency upon inspiration, but I could not perceive the painful sensation which has been spoken of by some Siberian travellers. The Ocean and its Wonders But the storm passed away and the effervescence returned—though not, it is pleasing to add, with so much pungency as before. Post Haste The larger and milder kinds, powdered in the same manner, make a wholesome and pleasant grade of pepper of sufficient pungency for a majority of palates. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. Applied to the ladies, this would give it pungency. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 Spearmint adds to lemonade the pleasing pungency it as readily imparts to a less harmful but more notorious beverage. Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses Familiar examples are given in the celery, of which the acrid qualities are removed by keeping off the light; while the pungency of cress, parsley, &c., is increased by exposure to the sun. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 448 Volume 18, New Series, July 31, 1852 From his mousing among the Elisabethan dramatists and such old humorists as Burton and Fuller, his own style imbibed a peculiar quaintness and pungency. Brief History of English and American Literature This and the Blood-red are much esteemed by some for their extreme pungency and for their diuretic properties. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. And the Founder must endure the pungency of the smoke, if He would speak the Word of Fire. London Lectures of 1907 Transparency, pungency, and flavour, are qualities that highly recommend this liquor, and should be particularly aimed at by the brewer. The American Practical Brewer and Tanner The comments of the ring increased in point and pungency. Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm There was warmth, and light, and music, and the odor of rum-punch and lemon, and the pungency of cigars, and the pleasant stimulus of agreeable conversation. My New Curate The seeds are similar to the roots in taste and odor, but have greater pungency. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. I rubbed some of the powder on my body, put a pinch in the pocket of my shirtcloak, and chewed a few of the buds, wrinkling my nose at the long-unfamiliar pungency. The Door Through Space Still I could smell it; the aroma of the tobacco did not lessen its beastly pungency in the smallest degree. Brood of the Witch-Queen But the pungency of this antithesis comes from an imperfect realization of its meaning. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 The newspaper press he had assailed with a pungency and vigor which it in vain sought to rival. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters It possesses a nutty flavor; but is inferior to the true Rampion, having a slight pungency. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. Two of these pamphlets, written in "broad Scotch," were remarkable for their pungency and effective banter. Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities The Cress of the herbalist is a noun of multitude: it comprises several sorts, differing in kind but possessing the common properties of wholesomeness and pungency. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure Accuracy of thought has seldom been more recklessly offered up to pungency of expression than in the above-cited aphorism of Pope. The Friendships of Women Spirit of hartshorn is counterfeited by mixing liquid caustic ammonia with the distilled spirit of hartshorn, to increase the pungency of its odour, and to enable it to bear an addition of water. A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy She puts the nectar through a process of her own, adds a drop of her own secretion to it, namely, formic acid, the water evaporates, and lo! the tang and pungency of honey! The Last Harvest Rousseau and his friend Moultou have preserved it for us, and it is probable that it has lost none of its pungency in passing through the hands of the latter. Gibbon And therefore the leaves of wild Cresses were eaten as a substitute for giving pungency to the food. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure The pungency of her temper was but as the salt and vinegar which brought out the true flavour of the other numberless pleasures around her. Alec Forbes of Howglen The principle on which its pungency depends, is soluble in water and in alcohol. A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy Their jests are necessarily of the coarsest; nevertheless excellent local hits are made and satiric personalities of considerable pungency are not infrequently indulged in. The Delight Makers We must suppose that he produced something better than this, but look in vain into his lines for any instances of real pungency. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Incense streamers slid and coiled along the soil-fused floor, their dissipating pungency unable to disguise the acrid stench of sweaty bodies and unwashed garments. The Universe — or Nothing Hilda picked it up and drew in the crude, warm pungency of its smell. Hilda A Story of Calcutta The Masco apartment was all brand-new—so new that there was still about it an odor of fresh paint and plaster, and the pungency of raw textiles. The Title Market There is a liveliness and pungency to this water which makes it a pleasant beverage. Saratoga and How to See It It is full of quiet, sometimes grim, humour; of picturesque and witty touches; of pungency and irony. An Introduction to the Study of Browning There was a new pungency in the autumn air, an unaccustomed scantiness in the herbiage of the moor and the low hedges growing from the top of the stone walls. Nobody's Man So far as the drama itself goes, they are of no great importance except to give pungency and interest to the action. The Man in Court Dane, his sense of smell largely deadened by the pungency with which he had been surrounded by most of that day, could distinguish no new odor. Plague Ship It seems to possess a greater pungency than the Sumatran plant, which the people cultivate for their own use in the interior parts of the island. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants Browning has rarely excelled it in certain qualities, hardly found in any other poet, of pungency, novelty, and penetrating bitter-sweetness. An Introduction to the Study of Browning Scott's style lacked the adroitness and pungency which helped Jeffrey successfully to take the attitude of the censor, and which made his satire triumphant among his contemporaries. Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature Hence the virtue and pungency of the influence on the mind, of natural objects, whether inorganic or organized. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Guests watch the steaming bowls And sniff the pungency of peppered herbs. More Translations from the Chinese Acetic Acid and its Use in Perfumery.—The pungency of the odor of vinegar naturally brought it into the earliest use in the art of perfumery. The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants The white brandy of Pierre-Aim� Lair, introduced after dinner, is hardly to be described for its strength and pungency. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One Only their pungency and wit render them readable. English Satires At night steeped tea extended by some other herbs probably and its pungency and acridity assuaged by the saccharine principle aforementioned. The Record of a Quaker Conscience, Cyrus Pringle's Diary With an Introduction by Rufus M. Jones She was a good conversationalist, and especially attractive to men of individuality who admired her sagacious, picturesque pungency of expression. Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment The father's heart was stung by the diabolical pungency of this question. Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One It proved to be a kind of essence of horehound, of notable tartness and pungency, very like a powerful cough syrup. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned As regards Passion, it dwells in such properties of theirs as pungency, sourness, sweetness, etc, which change with time or in consequence of cooking or through admixture. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 They are the cause of the pungency and aroma of mustard, horse-radish, cloves, nutmegs, cinnamon, caraway seeds, mint, sage and other spices. The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition Culture appears to increase the size, but to diminish the pungency of the fruit. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. Harwood took early opportunity to subdue somewhat the pungency of the essences with which she perfumed herself, and she gave up gum-chewing meekly at his behest. A Hoosier Chronicle Inferior to her husband in humourous description, as in depth of thought, she surpassed him in liveliness of wit, in pungency of satire, and in terseness of expression. The Life of Froude The strongest would not make him sneeze, or wring from the sensibility of his eyes the smallest tribute to its pungency. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841 To-day, moreover, crowning the composition, there was the delicate pungency of the holly that topped the Queen Anne mirror and the Mantegna prints. A Christmas Garland They are used chiefly in confectionery, and have the flavor and pungency of cassia. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. The obvious contrast is too much for their pride; mercifulness of disposition does not mitigate its pungency. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 Roquefort France King of cheeses, with its "tingling Rabelaisian pungency." The Complete Book of Cheese All very good Shakspearian actors with a taste of a brogue to give their remarks pungency. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 24, 1891 Half blindly she reached out her hand toward a glass of wine which stood near by, foaming and sparkling, its gem-like drops of keen pungency swimming continuously up to the surface. The Mississippi Bubble An oil, called clove oil, is also distilled from the leaf, which is said to be equal in aromatic pungency to that made from the clove at the Moluccas. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. It choked and almost poisoned him by its vaporous pungency. The Sign of the Red Cross Clearly, some pungency is necessary, and confidence suggests rather Cacio which would survive anything, the monster said. The Complete Book of Cheese That he depicted this as the real life of a primitive epoch only gave greater pungency to the contrast. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Was it this mere foreignness, this likeness in difference, that made it strike so sharply, with such a pleasant pungency on Elizabeth's senses? Lady Merton, Colonist Cassia bark is of a less fibrous texture, and more brittle, and it is also distinguished from cinnamon by a want of pungency, and by being of a mucilaginous or gelatinous quality. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. To Colonel Delaney he was an "agitator," if not a rebel; and the careless pungency of his talk soon classed him as an atheist besides. Lady Rose's Daughter Who wrote the epigram on Thorwaldsen—was it not our friend now present, Mr Banks? a gentleman, I must say, perfectly unequaled in the radiance of his wit and the delicious pungency of his satire. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 The wood-cress, or as it is called by some, ginger-cress, is a pretty white cruciform flower; it is highly aromatic in flavour; the root is white and fleshy, having the pungency of horseradish. The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America That terrible reek of fish had disappeared and the air was laden with the delightful pungency of clean seaweed and the pure saltiness of the great waters. Sweetapple Cove With all the pungency, and nearly all the pleasantry of hers, it has less of spontaneous volubility. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England And farther, every abstract or general notion,—colours in the abstract, sweetness, pungency, &c.—supposes these, powers of the understanding in addition to the recipiency of the senses. Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics In him the comic is a vehicle for satire; and the satire gives pungency and body to the comic. Essays Æsthetical When the familiar pungency of her boarding-house flowed in and round Mrs. Violet Smith, she paused for a moment and could not push through the oppression. Every Soul Hath Its Song "Well, well!" he said, exhaling heartily, the scent of violet denying the pungency of fish and the pungency of fish denying the scent of violet. The Vertical City We are so well accustomed to do this that we lose the point and pungency of much of our Lord's teaching. Our Lady Saint Mary It had not the wit, pungency, and facility of its rival, and failed of securing so general a popularity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 With the plainness and pungency of the old-fashioned Scottish language there was sometimes a coarseness of expression, which, although commonly repeated in the Scottish drawing-room of last century, could not now be tolerated. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Water extracts the whole of the pungency of this herb by infusion, and elevates it in distillation. The Botanist's Companion, Volume II One night there was a furious pink tint on the distant horizon, and borne on miles of the stiffly thin air came the pungency of burning wood and flesh across the snowlight. The Vertical City Amomum, a genus of plants, such as the cardamom and grains of paradise, remarkable for their pungency and aromatic properties. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge On such occasions the air of the lane was apt to take on a special pungency, and as he sniffed it, he would have a sensation of mixed pleasure and revulsion. The Soul of a Child Nothing is so good to teach the use of materials, and to compel to pungency of style. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 The Root.—The root consists of a number of tubercles, fastened together by slender strings; its taste is rough and bitterish, with a slight degree of pungency. The Botanist's Companion, Volume II Its satire of philological pedantry has not yet lost pertinence or pungency. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes I came to see that, trained as I had been in certain habits of life and work, habituated to certain experiences, the savour of the interludes had owed their pungency to their economy and rarity. The Silent Isle "If they are really delirious they do not remember, but you were only slightly delirious ... you were maddened by the pain occasioned by the pungency of the plaster." A Mere Accident If the fruit have a special flavor of such ambitious pungency that the sweets and acids cannot appear through it, be sure that to come at this fruit no young Wilhelm Meister will purloin keys. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 The leaves of the plant discover a viscid sweetishness, accompanied with a more durable saponaceous pungency and warmth: these seem capable of answering some useful purposes, as a stimulating, aperient, antiscorbutic medicine. The Botanist's Companion, Volume II From his mousing among the Elizabethan dramatists and such old humorists as Burton and Fuller, his own style imbibed a peculiar quaintness and pungency. From Chaucer to Tennyson No man commits any act of negligence or obstinacy, by which his safety or happiness in this world is endangered, without feeling the pungency of remorse. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II It held within it an unmatched faculty for pathos, a capacity for expressing a lambent and kindly humour, a power of pungency in satire and a descriptive vividness that English could not give. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge That there was danger in the employment, served to give an alluring pungency to the choice. Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are The extreme acridity or intense pungency of the bulbs, stems, leaves and fruit of various species of the Araceae or Arum family, was recognized centuries ago. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Oh! my dear friend, though you have a profound knowledge of all, a pungency of tribulation, you don't know everything. The Contrast Never by any chance in it is there any of that real plebeian pungency which can be heard from the ordinary cabman in the ordinary street. Heretics They are not to be imitated, but he would be much less than he is without them, and they act by their very strength and pungency as a preservative of his work. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge And today, as he made his fire between two stones—a smoldering, evil-smelling fire of sagebrush—the smoke kept running up his clothes and choking his lungs with its pungency. Way of the Lawless Old odors laden with memory rushed to meet her; that pungency which, unaccountably enough, reeks of the cold boiled potato, and which old upholsteries, windowless hallways, and frequent meat stews can generate. Star-Dust There he fell sound asleep on the sofa, and so Gloria found him, his breath filling the air with an unpleasant pungency, his hand still clutching his open brief case. The Beautiful and Damned Between the pungency communicated to the taste by the horse-radish and the fumes of the spirit invading the nasal avenues, the illusion of a good "square drink" will be complete. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 10, June 4, 1870 In the non-lyrical epigrams of Catullus, in the shorter poems of the Appendix Vergiliana, there is the same vigour, the same coarse humour, the same pungency that find their best expression in Martial. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal I was delighted with the delicate pungency of her satire, which, however, was totally removed from vulgar scandal. Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale Her child lay sleeping on a pillow hedged in with a chair, and, bending over, the aroma struck her squarely and with a close pungency. Star-Dust There was a rare pungency in it certainly, a quality almost Southern. The Beautiful and Damned Mr. Coleridge used occasionally to regret, with even pungency of feeling, that he had no relation in the world, to whom, in a time of extremity, he could apply "for a little assistance." Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey He possessed, so Pliny writes, 'vigour, pungency, and wit. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal The eighteenth-century smooth force and pungency of the main part of it ends in an anticipation of the burlesque energy of some of Mr. George Meredith's most characteristic verse. Poems of Coleridge Crocuses, whose cold, moist smell, with all the pungency of associations an odor can arouse, somehow suggested, to Lilly, Taylor Avenue and little Harry Calvert. Star-Dust Nothing save his accent itself,—a trick of the tongue, an intonation ever so slightly alien that addressed her ear just as some perfume's rich but smothered pungency might address the nose. Under the Skylights Gafsa is losing its flavour; the novelty and pungency are gone. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Among Ibsen's writings Terje Vigen is unique as a piece of pure sentimentality carried right rough without one divagation into irony or pungency. Henrik Ibsen The ease and fun of these bright prolusions, without impudence or coarseness, the poetic touch and refinement, were as unmistakable as the brisk pungency of the gibe. Literary and Social Essays The only one extant was written by Garrick, and has been preserved, very probably, by its pungency: "Here lies poet Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, but talked like poor poll." Oliver Goldsmith A Biography His pungency is sometimes wonderful; the whole flavour of many a sparkling little poem is pressed into one envenomed word, like the scorpion's tail whose last joint is a sting. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius It is a salad in which the pungency of the vinegar has been wholly subdued by the oil, and the fatness of the oil destroyed by the tartness of the vinegar.' The Three Clerks The pungency of all these elements in her writings is felt by the most casual reader. Letters of Catherine Benincasa Experimentally I have placed these molluscs in fresh water, to find it quickly dyed to a rich amber colour while acquiring quite remarkable pungency. My Tropic Isle Now a certain deference and a certain pungency of satire ran together in his tone, the mixture being nicely and pleasurably controlled. Over the Pass The éclat of their style, and the pungency of their epigrams is startling. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius His wit was the wit of a virtuous, a decorous man; it had pungency without venom; humour without indelicacy; and was copious without being tiresome. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 2 His speeches on the war are more marked for pungency of satire and bitterness of invective against England than for moral wisdom. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 12 American Leaders He was quite protected from the wind, which gives so much pungency to bitter cold, rendering it insupportable. The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers A Norwegian housewife would not consider a meal complete without five or six different kinds of cheese of all degrees of pungency in taste and odor upon the table. Norwegian Life His dialogues have been imitated by Fontanelle and Lord Lyttleton, but these authors do not possess his humor or pungency. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations Again, the burning, almost caustic effect of the stronger alcoholic drinks, and the acrid pungency of tobacco smoke, are disastrous to the finer perceptions of both taste and odors. A Practical Physiology The monotonous wail of the instruments, the pungency of the incense, the subdued light, the humid breath of the roses carried the thoughts of Mr. Tutt far away. Tutt and Mr. Tutt The pine logs crackled, lighting one end of the room and filling the air with aromatic pungency. Man Size It is not by his liveliness of imagery, his pungency of periods, or his fertility of allusion, that he detains the cits of London, and the boors of Middlesex. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons One or two of the outsides played in caps, and the team to a man criticized the referee's decisions with point and pungency. Tales of St. Austin's His dialogues have been imitated by Fontanelle and Lord Lyttleton, but they do not possess his humor or pungency. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. Tragedy, full of salt and pungency epigrammatic,— And thou, minuet-step of our old buskin preserved! The Poems of Schiller — Third period We felt the pungency of sulphurous fumes in the still night air. The Hawaiian Archipelago From a number of beautifully printed placards at the street corners, adorned with caricatures of considerable pungency, we discover an odd little election is in progress. A Modern Utopia Hence the English strawberries of to-day surpass ours in these respects, but are wanting in that aromatic pungency that characterizes most of our berries. Locusts and Wild Honey Perhaps his ideas are altogether so marked and individual, as to require their point and pungency to be neutralized by the affectation of a singular but traditional form of conveyance. Charles Lamb It was a cacophony of smells, ranging from the heavily oppressive odour of the Dutch cheeses and the Gruyeres to the alkaline pungency of the Olivets. The Fat and the Thin There was a faint smell of perfume in the room, a heavy voluptuous smell in which the odour of sandal-wood mingled with the pungency of myrrh. Tales of Chinatown At the same moment down came three or four bottles from the chiffonnier and shot a web of pungency into the air of the room. The Invisible Man And this nectar, clear as dew-drops, sweet with an aftertaste of some scented spice—a fragile pungency—was ever liqueur so purely compounded? Confessions of a Beachcomber Hilda picked it up, and drew in the crude, warm pungency of its smell. The Path of a Star All sorts of smells were wafted through the hoarding from the neighbouring cellars; the musty smell of vegetables, the pungency of fish, the overpowering stench of cheese, and the warm reek of poultry. The Fat and the Thin Its fruit was two inches in diameter, with longitudinal ribs, scarlet red, and very eatable when dropt from the tree, but when gathered on the tree, it had an aromatic pungency. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 He puckered up his little brown nose and sniffed the air, and the pungency of everything that was sweet and to be yearned for came to him. Nomads of the North A Story of Romance and Adventure under the Open Stars "Even so," returned Mary, who really was delighted with the pungency of her own composition. Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland He looked at me with such exceeding wistfulness that I was forced to cudgel my brains for something which, having a slight savour of truth, might be seasoned to pungency at fancy. The Heart's Highway Well, this example, so far as we spectators are concerned, would lose its point and pungency if she died as you propose—a half-reclaimed inebriate in some home. South Wind There is nothing like a slight infusion of self-interest to give point and pungency to party feeling. Roughing It in the Bush The comments of the Ring increased in point and pungency. Love Among the Chickens By day it had a more subtle aroma, a closeness, a peculiar sort of faint pungency that I associate—I know not why—with dust. In the Days of the Comet Deeper and denser grew the black mist and its pungency began to assail my nostrils as well as my eyes. The Jewel of Seven Stars Should he re-state it in such terms as to make it palatable to refined readers, diluting its primary pungency without impairing its essential signification? South Wind Indeed, though I have experienced most of the smells that come to one in the practice of our profession, this odour had a pungency and a nauseating character all its own. The Prospector And it stank most vilely of rancid oil and burnt meats and other things indefinable in all but their acrid, nauseating, unclean pungency. The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza Well, that stomach the vermin possess: they revel in the pungency of the woolly milk mushroom even as the spurge caterpillar browses with delight on the loathsome leaves of the euphorbiae. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography When the berries on a spike begin to turn red they are gathered, as they lose pungency if they are allowed to ripen. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Like so many solitaries, he experienced the joy of intense, long-continued effort in composition, and he was artist enough to know that his pages, carefully assembled from his note books, had pungency, form, atmosphere. The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters Hence, there are occasions where his pungency is embittered into acrimony, strength degenerates into vulgarism, and the vehemence of satire is infuriated with the fierceness of invective. Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke Perhaps his ideas are altogether so marked and individual as to require their point and pungency to be neutralised by the affectation of a singular but traditional form of conveyance. Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners Coming and going upon the dense staleness of the room and pervading the immediate premises was a strange savoury pungency. Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1 Hence the virtue and pungency of the influence on the mind of natural objects, whether inorganic or organized. Essays — Second Series But that which they best appreciate in the new materialism is the pungency of paradox and the freedom given to pleasure. The Ancient Regime Maria, after adding her pungency to the general conversation, had darted on ahead. Drift from Two Shores I had told you that this was in reference to Orion, formerly written Urion; and, from certain pungencies connected with this explanation, I was aware that you could not have forgotten it. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 July 2d, the news came: King withdrew into privacy; to weep and bewail under this new pungency of grief, superadded to so many others. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 Some are so clever as even to overreach themselves, like the horse-radish, which gets pulled up and eaten for the sake of that pungency with which it protects itself against underground enemies. Erewhon This probably has been much owing to the acerbity and pungency of Sydney Smith's witty denunciations against the drab-colored State. North America — Volume 2 Being perfect, they can never droop under that satiety which arises from the perception of fault; their virtue can never be so entirely savoured as to leave no pungency of gusto for the next approach. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft Then let your eyes and your imagination have their turn before the pungency of rank tobacco adds to the difficulty of seeing and breathing. London's Underworld Probably no one of them remembers a word of my discourse; but doubtless every survivor will agree that no speaker, before or since, ever made to him an appeal of such pungency. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1 But there was a dense cloud of cigar smoke in the room, and mingled with its pungency were sweeter scents. Dope Miss Guiney has a crisp economy of phrase, a pungency and tang, that invest her style with an unusual degree of personality. The Little Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets His style is not merely remarkable considering its author's difficulties; it is capable at need of pungency and of high expressiveness. The Danish History, Books I-IX |
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