appetiteless

Now then, I can't tell you about the quality of the food just this second because I was feverish and appetiteless on my one trip there, but I can tell you about the menu.

Archive 2007-07-01 tannaz 2007

Now then, I can't tell you about the quality of the food just this second because I was feverish and appetiteless on my one trip there, but I can tell you about the menu.

The Scoop Effect: Pure Luck Pub tannaz 2007

He was a little man with winking blue eyes, a flushed and crumpled forehead, a little gray mustache that gave him the profile of an amiable cat, and a lively taste in spotted ties, and he lacked that appetiteless look which is affected by distinguished practitioners.

The Return of the Soldier 1918

I have seen women who made the dinner table less a place to eat than a place where a child was pilloried for his manners, -- pilloried into sullen, appetiteless state.

The Nervous Housewife Abraham Myerson 1914

I do not know what desperately in love is, my own love's course running smoothly enough; but I can testify that it was making Mr. Robert thin and appetiteless.

Man on the Box Harold MacGrath 1901

"You haven't eaten your Filboid Studge!" would be screamed at the appetiteless clerk as he hurried weariedly from the breakfast-table, and his evening meal would be prefaced by a warmed-up mess which would be explained as "your Filboid Studge that you didn't eat this morning."

The Chronicles of Clovis 1870-1916 Saki 1893

They went to their regular meals in the English ship, and pretty soon they were nibbling again -- nibbling, appetiteless, disgusted with the food, moody, miserable, half hungry, their outraged stomachs cursing and swearing and whining and supplicating all day long.

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories Mark Twain 1872

Not eat, exactly, either, but it nibbled; nibbled in an appetiteless way, but still it nibbled; and that's just a marvel.

The American Claimant Mark Twain 1872

An appetiteless dinner was succeeded by tea and music, as before.

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

That was rather a damper for Sir Harry; but upon reflection, he thought he could not be worse off with Mr. Sponge and Mr. Bugles than he was with Mr. Bugles alone; so, having finished a poor appetiteless breakfast, he repaired to what he called his 'study,' and with a feeble, shaky hand, scrawled an invitation to Mr. Sponge to come over to Nonsuch House, and take his chance of a run with his hounds.

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833