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    savoury


    1. ’ Kara mused, spearing a particularly large chip on the end of her fork dipping it in the savoury sauce on her plate before carrying it to her mouth


    2. Yet again, Kara felt the impact of the massive divide between her culture and that of Earth – something the exploration of the seaside resort had highlighted; the sheer volume of … words failed her … stuff that was on sale in the shops … most of it completely superfluous … badly made, cheap (in every meaning of the word) ornaments of no practical use whatsoever and precious little artistic merit, deliberately manufactured to clutter up somebody’s home … and then there was the food and drink on offer! Everywhere she’d looked there had been foodstuffs on sale and people eating … battered fish, hot savoury smelling sausages, the tart scent of vinegar on chips fresh from the fryers … and ices of every conceivable flavour … and those unbelievable sweets in all shapes and sizes … and, according to Iain, this particular seaside resort was a relatively small one … by the time Iain turned off the motorway at the Taunton interchange, she had concluded that although it had been fun visiting, really, when it came down to it, she preferred her own world


    3. Oh it was good to be out of all those fumes! The odour of cooked food quickly filled the room as Friede, the cook and general factotum of The Centre, brought in plates piled high with savoury pastries


    4. The dinner is a savoury triumph for Peggy and her mother


    5. Thai cooking regularly combines the sweet, sour and savoury


    6. There was a gradual shift from savoury to sweet throughout, with this dish the pinnacle of such


    7. Ingredients of course usually more appreciated for what they bring to savoury courses, yet treated in such a way as to bring out their natural sweetness in this gorgeously light and fresh dessert


    8. But God had put into them a mixture as of savoury bread and blood


    9. 14 And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved


    10. 17 And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob

    11. 31 And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it to his father, and said to his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that your soul may bless me


    12. made savoury meat, such as his father loved


    13. 17 And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared,


    14. 31 And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and


    15. and presented the savoury meat


    16. They walked through street that led out of the docks, past the run-down warehouses, past the chandlers and sail-makers and various traders who gathered round the newly docked boats and tried to sell fresh fruit and savoury snacks to fill the long-deprived bellies of the sailors


    17. He found the least savoury bar that he could, plonked himself in a dark


    18. outskirts of the city, it shared a boarder with one of Edinburgh’s less savoury


    19. Was it a dessert or a savoury dish? They debated, but one thing for sure it was a taste sensation


    20. Kahn, a clever enough attorney who has a large theatrical clientele and none too savoury a reputation as a local politician

    21. They had a liking for less savoury cuts of meat too, I once called round at tea time and was horrified to find them tucking in to lamb’s brains on toast! There was often an ox tail or a pig’s foot simmering on the stove top


    22. savoury stew, the boy checking the Stone before tucking it away in a pocket


    23. Cruncher's apartments were not in a savoury neighbourhood, and were but two in number, even if a closet with a single pane of glass in it might be counted as one


    24. Don Quixote did not care to break his fast, for, as has been already said, he confined himself to savoury recollections for nourishment


    25. For his nutriment he shewed how he would feed himself exclusively upon a diet of savoury tubercles and fish and coneys there, the flesh of these latter prolific rodents being highly recommended for his purpose, both broiled and stewed with a blade of mace and a pod or two of capsicum chillies


    26. He could smell a savoury soup


    27. The fellow is a genius in his way, and would have made his mark in some more savoury trade


    28. In a very few minutes supper was ready, and Mole, as he took the head of the table in a sort of a dream, saw a lately barren board set thick with savoury comforts; saw his little friends' faces brighten and beam as they fell to without delay; and then let himself loose—for he was famished indeed—on the provender so magically provided, thinking what a happy home-coming this had turned out, after all


    29. This compliment was the more pleasant, as Lady Auchans was well known for her skill in savoury contrivances, and to have anything new to her of the sort was a triumph beyond our most sanguine expectations


    30. sooner or later? There's the feather‐bed element here, brother—ach! and not only that! There's an attraction here—here you have the end of the world, an anchorage, a quiet haven, the navel of the earth, the three fishes that are the foundation of the world, the essence of pancakes, of savoury fish‐pies, of the evening samovar, of soft sighs and warm shawls, and hot stoves to sleep on—as snug as though you were dead, and yet you're alive—the advantages of both at once! Well, hang it, brother, what

    31. In a few moments the savoury steam came forth again, but with a different flavor, and in good time a fine cod-chowder was placed before us


    32. By degrees the whole crocodile disappeared into the vast recesses of his stomach, so that he was even on the point of attacking an ichneumon, a constant companion of the crocodile, probably imagining that the latter would be as savoury


    33. To cut the matter short—for we can't go on talking for another thirty years as people have done for the last thirty—I ask you which you prefer: the slow way, which consists in the composition of socialistic romances and the academic ordering of the destinies of humanity a thousand years hence, while despotism will swallow the savoury morsels which would almost fly into your mouths of themselves if you'd take a little trouble; or do you, whatever it may imply, prefer a quicker way which will at last untie your hands, and will let humanity make its own social organisation in freedom and in action, not on paper? They shout 'a hundred million heads'; that may be only a metaphor; but why be afraid of it if, with the slow day-dream on paper, despotism in the course of some hundred years will devour not a hundred but five hundred million heads? Take note too that an incurable invalid will not be cured whatever prescriptions are written for him on paper


    34. We cannot pretend that we do not see the policeman who walks in front of the windows with a loaded revolver, defending us, while we eat our savoury dinner or view a new performance, or those soldiers who will immediately go with their guns and loaded cartridges to where our property will be violated


    35. Sikórski, the investigator of it, says, consisted in this, that certain persons of these villages, under the influence of their leader, by the name of Malévanny, came to imagine that the end of the world was at hand, and so, changing their whole mode of life, began to distribute their property, to dress up, and to eat savoury food, and stopped working


    36. They say it is savoury!


    37. Golyadkin waited for his turn and modestly stretched out his had for a savoury patty


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    Synonyms for "savoury"

    savory savoury mouth-watering piquant zesty

    "savoury" definitions

    either of two aromatic herbs of the mint family


    an aromatic or spicy dish served at the end of dinner or as an hors d'oeuvre


    morally wholesome or acceptable


    having an agreeably pungent taste


    pleasing to the sense of taste