savour

• Thou shall prove How salt the savour is of other's bread How hard the passage to descend and climb By other's stairs. —  Samuel Rutherford
• The salt lost its savour, and in due tune it was trampled under foot; and the armies of the Moslem swept out of the East a superstition which had ended by enervating instead of ennobling humanity. —  The Hermits
• In thy method there is more: Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour, and make a fat offering, as not being_. —  Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel
• There is such a thing as judicial blindness: and there is such a thing as salt that has lost its savour, and is trodden under foot of men. —  Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow
• The word tiff in connection with her tale had a peculiar savour, a paralysing effect. —  Chance A Tale in Two Parts

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