sour

• A jar was placed beneath his emblem to catch the wine with which it was generally anointed; the wine was left to sour, and then it was known as the 'Holy Vinegar.' —  The Necessity of Atheism
• Would'nt you like a sup of sour--I mean, of our strong beer Pereg. —  John Bull The Englishman's Fireside: A Comedy, in Five Acts
• To Kakunai's report the answer was prompt and sour--"Kakunai is a liar or a fool; or if he would play a jest on Isuké, his own head shall ache as badly." —  Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2
• He swore it It is true he was not entirely free from that sickening, sour, accursed smell with which she had associated him all her life. —  The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills
• But our host, when I awoke in splendid sunlight, had breakfast ready--sour milk and Arab bread and fragrant coffee--and when I went out to my horse he followed me, and thrust two roasted fowls into my saddle-bags, exclaiming 'Zâd!' —  Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6

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