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  • It was mutton for breakfast and the same for dinner, and during the month of July and August the unrelishable mutton soup, with its nauseous smell, was sure to be found on the dinner table.

    Buried Alive (Behind Prison Walls) For a Quarter of a Century. Life of William Walker Thomas S. Gaines 1889

  • Paymaster Scott was up and about, and, in his independent way, had been saying unrelishable things to Button, who was in most peppery frame of mind.

    Lanier of the Cavalry or, A Week's Arrest Charles King 1888

  • Sometimes he made light of the subject, and jested with his wife about her "ten daughters;" but it was rather an unrelishable jest, and never was given with a heartiness that made it awaken more than a smile upon the gentle face of his excellent partner.

    Lizzy Glenn 1847

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