Unfortunately, in so doing, he used phrases savouring of aristocracy which offended many of his countrymen, - as in the sentence in which he suggested that " the rich, the well-born and the able " should be set apart from other men in a senate.   anvd [noun]

The men gradually fell silent, smoking their pipes, savouring the sharp snow-tang, grateful to their toughened senses, that still lingered in the air.   anvd [Please select]

For a little space she rested in all this, savouring the sweetness of it as some odour of costly sacrifice.   anvd [Please select]

A new book, savouring of the shop and market-place, however beautiful it might be, would not do for you.   anvd [Please select]

'I never heard of that,' interrupted Monks in a tone intended to appear incredulous, but savouring more of disagreeable surprise.   anvd [Please select]

For once Tommy was without reply, for anything savouring of criticism of Miss Margaret or her opinions was impossible to him.   anvd [Please select]

VI John, wild-eyed, was still where she had left him, in the avenue, savouring and resavouring his woe.   anvd [Please select]

Mill was chilled by these pretensions; they struck him as savouring of a totally unexpected charlatanry; and the correspondence came to an end.   anvd [Please select]

"There is my sponsor," he made answer, grinning in the very best of humours, savouring to the full his enemy's rage and discomfiture, and savouring it at no cost to himself.   anvd [Please select]