All 6 Uses of
zest
in
The House of Mirth
- There was a moment's pause, during which Selden meditated one or two replies calculated to add a momentary zest to the situation; but he rejected them in favour of the simple question: "Well, why don't you?"†
Chpt 1.1
- They would have over-emphasized the novelty of the adventure, trying to make him feel in it the zest of an escapade.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- But the reward itself seemed unpalatable just then: she could get no zest from the thought of victory.†
Chpt 1.3
- It certainly appeared, as he said, that Mrs. Dorset was the more active participant in the scene: her neighbour seemed to receive her advances with a temperate zest which did not distract him from his dinner.†
Chpt 1.5
- The crude forms in which her friends took their pleasure included a loud enjoyment of such complications: the zest of surprising destiny in the act of playing a practical joke.†
Chpt 1.9
- When an urgent case summoned him abroad to confer with a client in Paris, he broke reluctantly with the routine of the office; and it was only now that, having despatched his business, and slipped away for a week in the south, he began to feel the renewed zest of spectatorship that is the solace of those who take an objective interest in life.†
Chpt 2.1
Definition:
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(zest) enthusiastic enjoyment; or the outermost skin of an orange or lemon (for flavor)