The more meaty and flavorous the persimmons, the richer will be the beer. From Wordnik.com. [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference
The book is fresh and flavorous in tone, and speaks to the fancy of children. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
Weather permitting, it made -- it still makes -- the finest and most flavorous dried fruit ever eaten. From Wordnik.com. [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference
The dry stuffing takes up the juices of the fowl, and is much more flavorous, and less pasty than that which is wet before use. From Wordnik.com. [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference
It was a narrow, ill-lighted, unventilated apartment, bitter with the after-taste of taxes, prophetically flavorous of taxes yet to be. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference
The fondness for condiments, especially garlic and pepper, among the higher orders, possibly served to render the coarser nourishment of the poor more savoury and flavorous. From Wordnik.com. [Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine] Reference
Pots, big ones, set beside a log fire out of doors, with a little water in the bottom, and coals underneath and on the lids, turned out turkeys beautifully browned, tender and flavorous, to say nothing of the gravy. From Wordnik.com. [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference
They were not particularly flavorous oysters as we know oysters on this side of the ocean. From Wordnik.com. [Europe Revised] Reference
To this kind of stuff the addition of a small amount of some flavorous material is very useful. From Wordnik.com. [The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock] Reference
Puckering up her red lips with as intense an interest as if the world depended on the effort, she at length succeeded, and smacked them with a flavorous relish. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of a Southern matron,] Reference
She would have been a spoiled child, if unbounded love and indulgence could have spoiled her; but she was like those fruits and flowers which are only made more beautiful or flavorous by the fervid rays of the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Sketches] Reference
While Flame's Mother paused to consider the particularly flavorous sweetness of that entreaty, -- to picture the flashing eye, the pulsing throat, the absurdly crinkled nostril that invariably accompanied all Flame's entreaties, Flame herself was escaping!. From Wordnik.com. [Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs] Reference
In addition to the nutritive and flavorous articles employed in the manufacture of these foods, purely medicinal substances are also made use of with the idea that they would prove useful in maintaining the health and stimulating the appetite of the animals. From Wordnik.com. [The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock] Reference
A gentleman; and no English gentleman in recent times has ever thought of birds except as flying targets, or flavorous dishes. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds] Reference
Useful, flavorous adventures with a turkey!. From Wordnik.com. [Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs] Reference
That blackberries are so flavorous and juicy. From Wordnik.com. [Poems By Walt Whitman] Reference
The sumptuous viands, and the flavorous wines. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey] Reference
With piles of flavorous fruits in basket-twine. From Wordnik.com. [The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson] Reference
(Pure flavorous wine, by gods in bounty given. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey] Reference
Of flavorous tropic sweets (perchance swept home. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne,] Reference
127 flat-boat, 95 flat-car, 97 flat-footed, 32, 93, 163 flat-house, 127 flavor, 221 flavorous, 227 flavour, 221, 227 flem, 246 fletcherize, 191 flew, 273 flier, 144 fling, v. From Wordnik.com. [Mencken, H] Reference
Insistent as our transatlantic cousins are on writing arbour, armour, clamour, clangour, colour, dolour, flavour, honour, humour, labour, odour, rancour, rigour, savour, valour, vapour and vigour, and most unpleasant as they find the omission of the excrescent u in any of these words, they nevertheless make no scruple of writing the derivatives in the American wayarboreal, armory, clamorous, clangorous, colorific, dolorous, flavorous, honorary, humorous, laborious, odorous, rancorous, rigorous, savory, valorous, vaporize and vigorousnot inserting the u in the second syllable of any one of these words. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 8. American Spelling. 1. The Two Orthographies] Reference
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