Sometimes he had written from Boston and asked her the news of Riverboro, and she had sent him pages of quaint and childlike gossip, interspersed, on two occasions, with poetry, which he read and reread with infinite relish.
It is made from the purest ingredients, and if desired could be eaten by an invalid with relish and profit.
Madame had no sort of taste for a monastic life, and took care—largely, though discreetly—to season her existence with a relish of the world.
Paul detested her with intense seriousness; he honoured her with his earnest fury; he pursued her vindictively and implacably, refusing to rest peaceably in his bed, to derive due benefit from his meals, or even serenely to relish his cigar, till she was fairly rooted out of the establishment.
With vicious relish he brought up the most spicy current continental historical falsehoods—than which nothing can be conceived more offensive.
John enjoying the drive home, eating his supper with relish, and retiring to rest with Christian composure.
He had a strong relish for public representation in his own person, but an extreme abhorrence of the like display in any other.
A pâté, or a square of cake, it seemed to me would come very àpropos; and as my relish for those dainties increased, it began to appear somewhat hard that I should pass my holiday, fasting and in prison.
" "A good story is a good story—no matter who it's about," said the Story Girl with ungrammatical relish.
" "Never mind, it will be a good story to tell sometime," remarked the Story Girl with relish.
" "We've all got to die," said Sara Ray solemnly, but with a certain relish.
" "We might all have been found frozen stark and stiff this morning," remarked the Story Girl with apparent relish.
" "Such beautiful ears, doctor, dear," interjected Susan with a relish.
" "Took tantrums every few days or so and wouldn't get out of bed," said Miss Cornelia with a relish.
"I want to see those stone gods," said Davy with a relish.
I believe the master would relish Earnshaw's thrashing him to a mummy, if he were not his son; and I'm certain he would be fit to turn him out of doors, if he knew half the nursing he gives hisseln.
" Hareton, during the discussion, stood with his hands in his pockets, too awkward to speak; though he looked as if he did not relish my intrusion.
" I did not relish the notion of deliberately fastening myself in with Heathcliff.
Linton," I suggested, "that you have eaten some food with a relish this evening, and to-morrow you will perceive its good effects.
Neb made him nice little sweet dishes, which the invalid devoured with great relish, for if he had a pet failing it was that of being somewhat of a gourmand, and Neb had never done anything to cure him of this fault.
