Word: savour
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...Nothing that could be said in praise of the book would savour of exaggeration." --William J. Lawrence. Illustrated...
...SAVOUR OF LIFE-Arnold Bennett-Doubleday Doran ($2.50). Mr. Bennett has a grievance. People tell him he is a greater novelist than journalist, and he doesn't like it, because he has more fun being a journalist. So he writes a great many essays on a great many subjects to prove that a good modern novelist is essentially a journalist. But the fact remains that none of his journalism is as good as Clayhanger or The Old Wives' Tale...
...periodic rediscovery of the Treasure Room at Widener reveals penmanship so regular as to be almost inhuman, on yellowing vellum brightened by red, blue, and gold Gothic capitals. The musty savour of the rush-strewn cubicles still adheres to a leaf from the manuscript of St. Jerome, so old that it is little more than an ash held together by the heavy letters. A textbook by Peter Lombard, the almost illegible sermons of Duns Scotus, and Luther's German Catechism are all there as a symbol of the care with which the learning of ancients was kept alive during...
Salt that has lost its savour...
Never read anything so desolate, and yet so decently resigned. Receipt:- first find a good double rhyme, - like "savour," "flavour," or "candle," "handle." The first line does not rhyme, and the second can easily be worked in afterwards. Then take a comparison to one of the months, as he has to June, such as "March without mud" or "February without Semis," - or anything that is strange and unnatural...