| 单词 | savourless |
| 例句 | 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. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z And behind the portrait of individual desperation lurks a wider point about a society, six months after Mrs Thatcher's elevation to power, that has nothing much to offer but a savourless materialism. Ecstasy - review 2011-03-16T00:17:46Z To-morrow they were filing back through that postern that had given them this, their fortnight's respite, from tasks too often ignoble, from cramped circumstances, from savourless lives. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z Now, piquant and romantic sensations are very valuable in South Africa, and should always be followed up in case of life becoming too monotonously saltless and savourless. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z Yet her gratification in the memory of the latter event was singularly vapid, flat, and savourless. Nobody And then, by His touch, the water of our poor savourless, earthly enjoyments is transmuted and elevated into the new wine of His Kingdom. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John He marvelled to see with what activity men and women played the most savourless of games! Here are Ladies In another of his moral treatises he has formulated a long indictment against old age, that hateful state with its savourless joys and sleepless nights. Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study When supper-time was come and they were eating their soup, the secretary said— "Leave those savourless dishes alone, and let us taste this loveworthy whet for wine." The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. III. (of V.) Robert Maper merely provided that possibility of an innocent double life, without which existence would have been too savourless for Eileen. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Perhaps he did, and was over-persuaded by the cold and savourless nature of Nessy MacLeod, who is giving it out, I hear, that grief and shame for me killed him. The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill It makes conversation as savourless as porridge without salt. Penny Plain 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. English Men of Letters: Crabbe Another mistake to be guarded against, is that of reverting too suddenly to rather savourless insipid food. Reform Cookery Book (4th edition) Up-To-Date Health Cookery for the Twentieth Century. If Uncle Blair took the Story Girl away would not life become rather savourless on the hill farm? The Golden Road 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? The Doctor's Daughter And to-night, also, it mattered little, for my mind was preoccupied and a dinner with Lucullus would have been savourless. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel Already she found her vengeance a poor, savourless thing; she felt that it belittled her. Our Friend the Charlatan Amusement such as his world offered had always been savourless to him, and he had never sought familiar fellowship beyond his home. Thyrza 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. Jane Eyre |
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