unrelished

She enjoyed train journeys enormously, and, in these days, not a second of the precious discomfort should be left unrelished.

Final Curtain Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1935

On Saturday Dinkie smuggled the verminous Rowdy to the upper bathroom and gave him a thorough but quite unrelished soaping ...

The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912

When he was quite gone, and Anne had calmed down from the not altogether unrelished fear and excitement that he always caused her, she returned to her seat under the tree, and began to wonder what Festus Derriman's story meant, which, from the earnestness of his tone, did not seem like a pure invention.

The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884

He lay in bed till late, was absent from lecture, and got up to an unrelished breakfast, at which he was disturbed by the entrance of

Julian Home 1867

No wonder; with sleepless nights, and harassed days, and forgotten, or unrelished meals.

Faith Gartney's Girlhood 1865

Its unrelished food was not taken with reverent [mention] of the name of him the giver: no common prayer preceded the labours of the day, or sounded with peaceful [voice] at Eve to [unclear] its troubles & to end its strifes.

Sermons, 1861-1865, 1862

When Fanny woke me to receive my unrelished breakfast, she said:

Autobiography of a female slave, 1857

Jew's searching look, he felt that his pale face and trembling limbs were neither unnoticed nor unrelished by that wary old gentleman.

Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 1841

As he glanced timidly up, and met the Jew's searching look, he felt that his pale face and trembling limbs were neither unnoticed nor unrelished by that wary old gentleman.

Oliver Twist 1838

As he glanced timidly up, and met the Jew’s searching look, he felt that his pale face and trembling limbs were neither unnoticed nor unrelished by that wary old gentleman.

Oliver Twist 2007