Both Uses of
savor
in
Arrowsmith
- If he was bored by the United Brethren minister's discourse on doctrine, on the wickedness of movies, and the scandalous pay of pastors, it was not at all because he was a distant and supersensitive young man but because he found more savor in the garageman's salty remarks on the art of remembering to ante in poker.†
Chpt 16 *
- "Well, anyway— She who might have picked any number of well-bred, agreeable, intelligent chaps—and I MEAN intelligent, because this Arrowsmith person may know all about germs, but he doesn't know a symphony from a savory…… I don't think I'm too fussy, but I don't quite see why we should go to a house where the host apparently enjoys flatly contradicting you…… Poor devil, I'm really sorry for him; probably he doesn't even know when he's being rude."†
Chpt 39
Definition:
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(savor) to take great pleasure from; or the pleasure or flavor enjoyed