Word: pungents
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...said: The figure of speech is plain and pungent. Salt is savary, purifying, preservative. Christ was not paying compliments to his disciples. He was giving a clear and powerful call to duty. Were they to make their influence felt on earth for good? Men of privilege without power are waste material. Men of enlightenment without influence are the poorest kind of rubbish. Men of intellectual and moral and religious culture who are not active for good in society are not worth what it costs to produce and keep them. They were meant to be the salt of the earth...
...forces of the brother Scots who have followed him in writing; and directly the inspiration of the longer romances of Mr. Barrie and Mr. Crockett. In spite of the many brilliant merits of "The Little Minister," it is seriously faulty as a work of art, because the sweet and pungent realism of the Little Minister part of the book is mingled but not blended with the psendo-romance of Babby the Egyptian and her wonderful pranks. As "The Little Minister" is sadly inferior to the homogeneous perfection of "The Adventures of David Balfour" ("Kidnapped" included), so "The Raiders...
...audience which completely filled Appleton Chapel greeted Mr. Moody last evening on the occasion of his address to the students. Mr. Moody spoke earnestly and with rare power illustrating his idea by pungent and interesting anecdotes which captivated his hearers. One very striking illustration will long be remembered by all who heard it. A farmer on one of the northern railroad lines witnessed a land-slide across the railroad track shortly before the time of an express train. It was in the evening. The man could not reach a telegraph station, and lighting a lantern, he started up the track...
...present today another article from the flowing pen of Mr. Pratt, who seems imbued with the laudable desire to "wake the faculty up," to use his own pungent words...
...avenging Nemesis would so soon come upon us. Ever since that fatal day, communications have flowed into our office until we had literally to wade through them to get to our editorial desk. And what a variety; enough to put the rats of Hamlin to shame; some, aggressive and pungent, others caustic and malicious, others again, whining and plaintive; one calls for the auditor's report, another for the bursar's; one asks for an expert, and another wants new directors. One writer tells us that, as we had had so much about Memorial, we need not insert his communication...