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  • One June evening, when the orchards were pink blossomed again, when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head of the Lake of Shining Waters, and the air was full of the savor of clover fields and balsamic fir woods, Anne was sitting by her gable window.   (source)
    savor = pleasure
  • I make myself eat the stew in tiny spoonfuls — they even sent us silverware and plates — savoring each bite.†   (source)
  • Then I began to gloat over him, savoring my revenge.†   (source)
  • Mom told us to savor it because we had no money for dinner the next night.†   (source)
  • McCandless tramped around the West for the next two months, spellbound by the scale and power of the landscape, thrilled by minor brushes with the law, savoring the intermittent company of other vagabonds he met along the way.†   (source)
  • He ate slowly, savoring each crumb.†   (source)
  • It means the knowledge of all herbs and fruits and balms and spices, and all that is healing and sweet in the fields and groves and savory in meats It means carefulness and inventiveness and willingness and readiness of appliances.†   (source)
  • When the meal was finally ready, we all sat together and savored the sensuous experience of a delicious Persian meal.†   (source)
  • I drank a mouthful of coffee and savored it hitting my tongue.†   (source)
  • One then savors the tender flakes of haddock and the briny resilience of the mussels, which have been purchased on the docks from the fisherman.†   (source)
  • He walks back into the bedroom and dresses slowly, savoring the feel of smooth cotton, linen, and woolen socks.†   (source)
  • "I'd be pleased to help you tidy up," he said later to Herr Lukemeier as they sat down to the evening meal, savoring the bread that the girl had baked.†   (source)
  • She cackled, savoring the idea.†   (source)
  • Wes loved his war stories, savoring every detail.†   (source)
  • I wanted to savor these moments, of them briefly forgetting their troubles, in shared jokes and familial fondness.†   (source)
  • His savoring, tight-lipped smile and her unsmiling, sullen face.†   (source)
  • We need extra eggs, hard cheese, pippin apples, and savory.†   (source)
  • Langdon exhaled, savoring the sudden quiet.†   (source)
  • He sat there on the floor eating it, savoring the happiness that was flooding through him.†   (source)
  • He laid his hoe down gently, and savored one last moment of feeling warm soil beneath his bare feet.†   (source)
  • Sumiko read the letter from Ishmael Chambers in front of the tar-paper YMCA building; she read it again, savoring the more astonishing phrases, out by the camp hog pens.†   (source)
  • Denise, tall, slim, Asian-American, smiled at Mae and closed her eyes, as if savoring the moment.†   (source)
  • I savor each bright orange curl, Until it seems I just might hurl.†   (source)
  • Certainly, I thought, this is what they meant by "premeditated"— this deliberate savoring of each step, the assembly of each element, the contemplation of how death would be created, how a path of intentional circumstances paralleling and mimicking accidental circumstances would be set out upon.†   (source)
  • 'There is now,' he said, and he savored the last of the sweet.†   (source)
  • I complained about the extent of my hangover; Owen must have had a worse hangover—or one at least as bad as mine—but I imagine, now, that he was savoring it; he knew it was his last hangover.†   (source)
  • His mom watches nearby, and he can see that she's savoring every moment.†   (source)
  • She took steadying breaths, savoring the hope.†   (source)
  • I take another bite and close my eyes, savoring what is possibly the best pasta that's ever passed my lips.†   (source)
  • Magister Illyrio was a dealer in spices, gemstones, dragonbone, and other, less savory things.†   (source)
  • They are not like the ladies of Kweilin, who I always imagined savored their food with a certain detached delicacy.†   (source)
  • Just ...just savoring the moment.†   (source)
  • The rich savory flavors filled my mouth, and a tremendous sense of well-being spread through me as my stomach filled.†   (source)
  • The diminished pain in my leg is such a relief that I try to savor it, but pieces of my nightmare still linger in my mind, too fresh to put away.†   (source)
  • She wanted to leave, she wanted to lie alone, facedown on her bed and savor the vile piquancy of the moment, and go back down the lines of branching consequences to the point before the destruction began.†   (source)
  • The deepest joys of eating come when we slow down to savor our food and share it with people welove.†   (source)
  • Tita enjoyed this step enormously; while the filling was resting, it was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present.†   (source)
  • Eyes shining, mouths open, triumphant, they savored the right of domination.†   (source)
  • A thin Japanese guy only a few inches taller than the Colonel, Takumi talked with his mouth full as I chewed slowly, savoring the bean-y crunch.†   (source)
  • And for this very reason, they all agreed (savoring their teacherly disapproval, touching it with their tongues, sucking it like a sweet) all the more serious.†   (source)
  • It felt like a lifetime had come and gone since my night with Pippa and I thought how happy I'd been, rushing to meet her in the sharp-edged winter darkness, my elation at spotting her under a streetlamp out in front of Film Forum and how I'd stood on the corner to savor it—the joy of watching her watch for me.†   (source)
  • I opened my eyes, savoring the warm calm that was sweeping over me.†   (source)
  • Because as I'd stood there watching them all talking and laughing, I'd felt an unexpected little tug; because there was something about the way these donors had arranged themselves in a rough semi-circle, something about their poses, almost studiedly relaxed, whether standing or sitting, as though to announce to the world how much each one of them was savouring the company, that reminded me of the way our little gang used to sit around our pavilion together.†   (source)
  • I mean, maybe she has had contact with less savory elements in town.†   (source)
  • The Shade was already savoring his victory when the wind changed direction and swept toward the elves, heavy with the Urgals' stench.†   (source)
  • Basta savored the word.†   (source)
  • A power pulsed in those books I learned to savor, in the magical hours I spent in the library — and it called me back to them.†   (source)
  • Without any ritual, without ceremony, they savored the warm bread and shared the wine and laughed about the stranger moments of the weekend.†   (source)
  • I savored it as we drove back to the center.†   (source)
  • I savor the scowl on her face, the hate in her eyes.†   (source)
  • But I stayed too long, savoring the moment.†   (source)
  • She savored her secret, which tasted deliciously of freedom, as she allowed his weight on her in the dark bedroom and waited for him to be done.†   (source)
  • Gogol savors each mouthful, aware that for the next eight months nothing will taste quite the same.†   (source)
  • He seems to be savoring the day, the food, the company.†   (source)
  • The Fourth of July holiday calls up memories of patriotic parades, the savory scents of smoky barbecue, sweet corn, and night skies bursting with showers of light.†   (source)
  • She savored his looks and blue calm and craved the moments when, in the course of routine tasks, their bodies would touch.†   (source)
  • I said kissing him and savoring the aroma of cigars that always clung to his long beard, "a sunny day for the party!"†   (source)
  • There had been rumors, Jack recalled, that some of the means employed by Derwent to keep his head above water were less than savory.†   (source)
  • They savored being indoors, for many had spent many months without a proper roof over their heads, but they knew deep down that a house like this, a palace like this, would not be surrendered so easily, and their relief was therefore fragile.†   (source)
  • When every moment, every moment must be first known and then savored.†   (source)
  • Clary said, savoring the look of thinly disguised amazement on Isabelle's face.†   (source)
  • "A true Marxist is objective, Comrade Political Officer," Ramius chided, savoring this last argument with Putin.†   (source)
  • I would feel the weight, cut the skin and savor the fragrance.†   (source)
  • Now Esteban took the time to savor her fully and made sure that she felt pleasure too.†   (source)
  • Dented tin spoons brimming with what should have been sweet but was sour, gone off, gone by without our savoring it: our lives.†   (source)
  • The nurse jabbed the needle in, and I winced, savoring the tiny hurt.†   (source)
  • So, up 39 points, we called all our time-outs in the last minute of the game just to extend the time, allowing us all to savor the moment.†   (source)
  • Though I don't gorge myself, I can eat some of everything—the roasted vegetables, the savory meat, the crisp greens, and creamy cheese.†   (source)
  • The handfuls of earth made the only man who deserved that show of degradation less remote and more certain, as if the ground that he walked on with his fine patent leather boots in another part of the world were transmitting to her the weight and the temperature of his blood in a mineral savor that left a harsh aftertaste in her mouth and a sediment of peace in her heart.†   (source)
  • This moment, long envisioned, had lost some of its savor.†   (source)
  • The room smells of old books and last night's fire and, faintly, something savory from the kitchen—it's Friday; Terry must be cooking for the weekend.†   (source)
  • I devoured them, savoring the adventures they brought to me.†   (source)
  • He had opened the blinds, giving her this moment to savor, this glimpse of her life, contained within these brick walls, framed by the buffet she had refinished, the ficus tree she had not yet managed to kill off, the layers of glass and paint she'd washed so lovingly all these years.†   (source)
  • I let her bring the wet towel up to my face again, savoring her warmth as she leaned in closer.†   (source)
  • It was the very beard I would have grown in 1969 if Janet Savory, my second wife, Heinrich's mother, hadn't argued against it.†   (source)
  • I'm savoring my coffee, drinking it slowly.†   (source)
  • My brand-new Victoria's Secrets shredded, and I felt the worst of Brendan pause, savoring my terror.†   (source)
  • IFF's snack and savory lab is responsible for the flavor of potato chips, corn chips, breads, crackers, breakfast cereals, and pet food.†   (source)
  • Though savoring this sweet moment of family life, Kelley picked at her own food.†   (source)
  • He kissed me as if he'd savor it for the rest of his life.†   (source)
  • While I savored it, I listened to the others talking and gathered that the older Useless was named Ambiades and the younger Sophos.†   (source)
  • As the days slowly passed, the weather lost its cold edge, and the women savored moments of glee — they had survived the winter!†   (source)
  • She took in the sweetness of his freedom and let it roll around her tongue, while she savored its fragrant juices and allowed the syrupy fluid to coat her mouth and drip slowly down her throat.†   (source)
  • Lissa handed me my Zip Diet, and I took a big sip, savoring the taste.†   (source)
  • (Drily) Well—if the salt loses its savor— MAMA: Now that will do†   (source)
  • Into the cavern rushed eight of the strongest miners carrying an immense caldron which bubbled and sizzled and sent great clouds of savory steam spiraling slowly to the ceiling.†   (source)
  • I wanted to savor the last few hours before I had to hurt her.†   (source)
  • For half an hour, he is steady and deliberate, like someone savoring a fine meal.†   (source)
  • Finally they brought him half a roast chicken with rice and two halves of a tinned pear and this he ate slowly, savoring each bite and proposing and rejecting various scenarios that might have occurred in the outer world or be occurring.†   (source)
  • If was his boast that God Almighty never made a day too hot for him, and to the marrow of them his rheumatic bones felt and savoured the comfort of this blistering weather.†   (source)
  • Everytime the Big Nurse and her hustling black boys turned up something new, such as the empty bottle of cough syrup or the fleet of wheelchairs parked at the end of the hall like empty rides in an amusement park, it brought another part of the night back sudden and clear to be told to the guys who weren't in on it and to be savored by the guys who were.†   (source)
  • I slip a piece of apple into my mouth, savoring its juices.†   (source)
  • And his lips are soft and honey sweet, and the careful, passionate way he moves them against my own says that he savors the way I taste, too.†   (source)
  • Suddenly here was someone talking to him again as to a doctor, and he could feel his former life bridging the divide, coming back to him with its pleasant regularity of seeing patients and feeling their trusting eyes on him, those eyes he had pretended to ignore but in fact savored and now greatly missed.†   (source)
  • 'They probably won't let you,' Colonel Korn remarked with a condescending smile, savoring the situation.†   (source)
  • Quinn savored the half dumpling she'd allowed herself.†   (source)
  • Max and David savored their triumph as Nigel poked around, muttering the occasional "Would you look at that!" and "Those lucky devils!"†   (source)
  • "Yes," Moody agreed, savoring the comfort of good food and good friends.†   (source)
  • He turned it around, savoring the taste of it.†   (source)
  • AT MAIL call I continued to be blessed with an avalanche of letters, every one of which I savored.†   (source)
  • There was a long, heavy pause in the conversation as they sipped their drinks and savored the quiet.†   (source)
  • I curl up on my own, trying to savor the heat left in the cushions by a body that is no longer there.†   (source)
  • She would savor it, maybe fold it too in a brass box and hang it from her other ear.†   (source)
  • Among the Japanese, of course, rice is never eaten with sweet foods, only with salty or savory foods.†   (source)
  • If there was a little savor of patronage in the generous hospitality she exercised among her simple neighbors, it was never regarded as more than a natural emphasis of her undoubted claims to precedence.†   (source)
  • Making sure Dr. Martinez wasn't looking, Fang shot me the bird and took another bite, clearly savoring the warm chewiness, the notes of vanilla, the semimelted chocolate chunks.†   (source)
  • You won't be alive long enough to savor your victory—not while I still command the Shadow-Born!†   (source)
  • It is too cool this evening for the adults, and, besides, Cal is content to sip his martini, savoring the sharp, juniper smell of it as it mixes with the heavier perfume of the surrounding air.†   (source)
  • He looked just like a boy who is savoring the last bite of cake.†   (source)
  • His eyes closed as he savored the scent.†   (source)
  • The emerging warrior in him savored their cutting edge of lethal aggression.†   (source)
  • Ignatius brushed his lips against her throat, ready to bite down, savoring the moment for all its worth.†   (source)
  • I wrapped my arms around her warmth and softness, closing my eyes to savor the peace Echo's presence brought to me.†   (source)
  • He savored another sip.†   (source)
  • But the foreign delicacies Changazi savored most had names like Hildegund and Isabella.†   (source)
  • I ask, savoring the victory along with my potatoes.†   (source)
  • He chewed it slowly, savoring the sweet juice covering the inside of his mouth.†   (source)
  • Waiters in yellow guayabera jackets wheeled room-service tables along the path, delivering bottles and ice and canapés to Tranquility's guests, the majority of whom sat on their individual balconies savoring the end of the Caribbean day.†   (source)
  • One day, while the two of them went to buy embroidery threads, Celia decided to cook them a savory flank-steak stew.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, out in the mountains, Lonjino would go himself to a village and fetch his own calabash of beer to savor at the end of a day.†   (source)
  • I took a long pull and savored the fact I survived, another bite out of the proverbial elephant.†   (source)
  • This is a precious experience, one to savor.†   (source)
  • We savored every bite.†   (source)
  • He slithered back to the pines and sat against the front wheel of the bike, savouring the warmth from the engine, the Sten across his lap.†   (source)
  • Ruby sat on the stool at the counter at Hanson's Drug Store on Fifty-first Street and Seventh Avenue in New York City, savoring a scrumptious strawberry ice cream soda topped with whipped cream, chopped nuts and a Maraschino cherry.†   (source)
  • ELESIN The waters of the bitter stream are honey to a man Whose tongue has savoured all.†   (source)
  • It couldn't slay the impertinent human, though the demon would have truly savored such an act.†   (source)
  • With his sensuous mouth, as though sampling the contents of a bonbon box, he had savored the words blow your brains out.†   (source)
  • I remember how I sat with him in those restaurants, both of us eating without savor, unjoyous, and my wanting to show him that I could be as steely as he, my chin as rigid and unquivering as any of his displays, that I would tolerate no mysteries either, no shadowy wounds or scars of the heart.†   (source)
  • The witchery had almost ended the story according to its plan; Tayo had almost jammed the screwdriver into Emo's skull the way the witchery had wanted, savoring the yielding bone and membrane as the steel ruptured the brain.†   (source)
  • Unbeknownst to all those men who risked their lives to fight those great battles—men who deservedly savor the peace—plans are being hatched throughout the South to seek revenge for the Union victory.†   (source)
  • The first he gulped down; the second, savored.†   (source)
  • He'd been looking forward to savoring the moment of his first steps onto a space station.†   (source)
  • And then by and by, Linnie had just seemed to stop savoring the sight of him.†   (source)
  • Natalie savored her small victory.†   (source)
  • I had no choice but to share my remaining meal with my hungry partner, so we savored our last bites together.†   (source)
  • In my loafers, Bermuda shorts, and a T-shirt, I savored my last moments out of uniform.†   (source)
  • Sitting with him perched upon a rail, watching the rosy lights reflected in the calm sea, savouring the benison of the warmevening and the comfort of her drink, she asked him, "Dwight, tell me about the cruise that Swordfish made.†   (source)
  • He sat, savoring the pine-scented air, resting his eyes on the nearby green, the distant blue.†   (source)
  • When he was ten feet from Albert — who was still dead to the world — George drew his hindquarters up under him and, after pausing long enough to fully savor the moment, launched himself in a tremendous leap while at the same time letting loose a terrifying roar.†   (source)
  • And it is true that there were some people who, when their sorrow was beginning to lose its savor, gently edged it toward pride and felt increasingly important because of their loss.†   (source)
  • I would wear it a few hours more, however, to savor your passions in this fighting.†   (source)
  • At which point—brought back to my senses with a punctured libido—I would find myself at the window once more, savoring with longing heart the festivities below.†   (source)
  • (Applause ) BRADY (Savoring it) "Colonel Brady.†   (source)
  • The race was too intent upon savouring its new-found freedom to look beyond the pleasures of the present.†   (source)
  • ALAN [savouring it.†   (source)
  • Star said reprovingly, "Rufo, life is to be savored, not hurried."†   (source)
  • Mal'akh savored the scene for several long seconds.†   (source)
  • Eragon threw back his head, savoring the air on his face.†   (source)
  • I wanted to savor the gingerbread bite by bite and sip the milk slowly, but I couldn't help myself.†   (source)
  • I kissed her neck and ear, savoring her velvety skin.†   (source)
  • He closed his eyes and seemed to be savoring a silent moment for himself.†   (source)
  • His strong fingers encircled her throat, savoring her delicate pulse.†   (source)
  • Huge platters of fowl stuffed with savory fruits and nuts.†   (source)
  • "Vaporzzzz," she echoed, savoring the buzz on her tongue.†   (source)
  • She is rich in pauses, which she savors in her mouth.†   (source)
  • Eragon ran his fingers over the cover and savored its cool smoothness.†   (source)
  • And as we savored our treats, we listened to a song by Rachmaninoff called "Oriental Dance."†   (source)
  • The transfer hadn't been an occasion I savored, had it?†   (source)
  • I've never been savored like this before, and it's absolutely beautiful.†   (source)
  • Instead, she savored the way Tariq had said us.†   (source)
  • Jaime did not smoke, but he savored that cigarette, inhaling as slowly as he could.†   (source)
  • But it is not allowed, to swallow, to savor.†   (source)
  • It can't hurt to savor the occasion, at any rate.†   (source)
  • He leaned on his sword, drew a deep breath, and allowed himself a moment to savor the victory.†   (source)
  • You also didn't want the guy who savored Pee-wee Herman marathons.†   (source)
  • Taste every word, Meggie, whispered Mo's voice inside her, savor it on your tongue.†   (source)
  • I take another deep breath and close my eyes, savoring the moment like I did years ago.†   (source)
  • He took another and sat back to savor it.†   (source)
  • Stripping, he donned one of the luxurious tunics, savoring its downy texture.†   (source)
  • But for the moment, I feel something close to elation and I let myself savor it.†   (source)
  • He then sat down to savor every mouthful while I watched him.†   (source)
  • Here, she could savor the quiet and the calm.†   (source)
  • Help yourself to a drink and savory snacks.†   (source)
  • They would be savoring food and the comfort of safety.†   (source)
  • The lamb, which had been encrusted with rosemary and breadcrumbs, was savory and tender.†   (source)
  • We will savor this trip for the rest of our lives.†   (source)
  • He smiled, savoring the coolness of the evening.†   (source)
  • Eggs, pippins, savory, what else did she want?†   (source)
  • As the Hassasin stood there savoring his prize, he ignored the throb in his arm.†   (source)
  • "Of course," he said, seeming to savor Bast's reaction.†   (source)
  • I savor nothing about that journey, not the freshness of the air, the coolness of the nights.†   (source)
  • Savoring the taste, she says, "Why does chocolate taste so much better when it's fed to you?"†   (source)
  • I savored her touch and leaned in to kiss her.†   (source)
  • Meggie savored the name like an exotic fruit.†   (source)
  • I could see him savoring the wet lips, the mobile flesh of the throat as the wine went down.†   (source)
  • The dangers of the melee were only a savor to Robert, but this touched on his pride.†   (source)
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