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  • I make myself eat the stew in tiny spoonfuls — they even sent us silverware and plates — savoring each bite.†   (source)
  • Mom told us to savor it because we had no money for dinner the next night.†   (source)
  • He ate slowly, savoring each crumb.†   (source)
  • McCandless tramped around the West for the next two months, spellbound by the scale and power of the landscape, thrilled by minor brushes with the law, savoring the intermittent company of other vagabonds he met along the way.†   (source)
  • He then sat down to savor every mouthful while I watched him.†   (source)
  • I drank a mouthful of coffee and savored it hitting my tongue.†   (source)
  • The savory sweetness of the biscuit with its hint of spoiled butter ….†   (source)
  • I could not savor it.†   (source)
  • Savoring the taste, she says, "Why does chocolate taste so much better when it's fed to you?"†   (source)
  • "I'd be pleased to help you tidy up," he said later to Herr Lukemeier as they sat down to the evening meal, savoring the bread that the girl had baked.†   (source)
  • Wes loved his war stories, savoring every detail.†   (source)
  • Then I began to gloat over him, savoring my revenge.†   (source)
  • We need extra eggs, hard cheese, pippin apples, and savory.†   (source)
  • Langdon exhaled, savoring the sudden quiet.†   (source)
  • He sat there on the floor eating it, savoring the happiness that was flooding through him.†   (source)
  • His savoring, tight-lipped smile and her unsmiling, sullen face.†   (source)
  • I wanted to savor these moments, of them briefly forgetting their troubles, in shared jokes and familial fondness.†   (source)
  • He laid his hoe down gently, and savored one last moment of feeling warm soil beneath his bare feet.†   (source)
  • Just …. just savoring the moment.†   (source)
  • She cackled, savoring the idea.†   (source)
  • I savor each bright orange curl, Until it seems I just might hurl.†   (source)
  • The transfer hadn't been an occasion I savored, had it?†   (source)
  • She took steadying breaths, savoring the hope.†   (source)
  • I savored it as we drove back to the center.†   (source)
  • The diminished pain in my leg is such a relief that I try to savor it, but pieces of my nightmare still linger in my mind, too fresh to put away.†   (source)
  • I complained about the extent of my hangover; Owen must have had a worse hangover—or one at least as bad as mine—but I imagine, now, that he was savoring it; he knew it was his last hangover.†   (source)
  • She wanted to leave, she wanted to lie alone, facedown on her bed and savor the vile piquancy of the moment, and go back down the lines of branching consequences to the point before the destruction began.†   (source)
  • They are not like the ladies of Kweilin, who I always imagined savored their food with a certain detached delicacy.†   (source)
  • The room smells of old books and last night's fire and, faintly, something savory from the kitchen—it's Friday; Terry must be cooking for the weekend.†   (source)
  • A thin Japanese guy only a few inches taller than the Colonel, Takumi talked with his mouth full as I chewed slowly, savoring the bean-y crunch.†   (source)
  • Gogol savors each mouthful, aware that for the next eight months nothing will taste quite the same.†   (source)
  • Tita enjoyed this step enormously; while the filling was resting, it was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present.†   (source)
  • His mom watches nearby, and he can see that she's savoring every moment.†   (source)
  • Magister Illyrio was a dealer in spices, gemstones, dragonbone, and other, less savory things.†   (source)
  • Meals here are savored.†   (source)
  • Eyes shining, mouths open, triumphant, they savored the right of domination.†   (source)
  • I take another bite and close my eyes, savoring what is possibly the best pasta that's ever passed my lips.†   (source)
  • It felt like a lifetime had come and gone since my night with Pippa and I thought how happy I'd been, rushing to meet her in the sharp-edged winter darkness, my elation at spotting her under a streetlamp out in front of Film Forum and how I'd stood on the corner to savor it—the joy of watching her watch for me.†   (source)
  • The deepest joys of eating come when we slow down to savor our food and share it with people welove.†   (source)
  • He slithered back to the pines and sat against the front wheel of the bike, savouring the warmth from the engine, the Sten across his lap.†   (source)
  • There had been rumors, Jack recalled, that some of the means employed by Derwent to keep his head above water were less than savory.†   (source)
  • Sensing our moment ending, I nuzzled her hair, savoring her scent.†   (source)
  • Dented tin spoons brimming with what should have been sweet but was sour, gone off, gone by without our savoring it: our lives.†   (source)
  • The Shade was already savoring his victory when the wind changed direction and swept toward the elves, heavy with the Urgals' stench.†   (source)
  • The rich savory flavors filled my mouth, and a tremendous sense of well-being spread through me as my stomach filled.†   (source)
  • She savored his looks and blue calm and craved the moments when, in the course of routine tasks, their bodies would touch.†   (source)
  • Denise, tall, slim, Asian-American, smiled at Mae and closed her eyes, as if savoring the moment.†   (source)
  • I said kissing him and savoring the aroma of cigars that always clung to his long beard, "a sunny day for the party!"†   (source)
  • I devoured them, savoring the adventures they brought to me.†   (source)
  • IFF's snack and savory lab is responsible for the flavor of potato chips, corn chips, breads, crackers, breakfast cereals, and pet food.†   (source)
  • I opened my eyes, savoring the warm calm that was sweeping over me.†   (source)
  • A power pulsed in those books I learned to savor, in the magical hours I spent in the library — and it called me back to them.†   (source)
  • It was the very beard I would have grown in 1969 if Janet Savory, my second wife, Heinrich's mother, hadn't argued against it.†   (source)
  • Basta savored the word.†   (source)
  • And for this very reason, they all agreed (savoring their teacherly disapproval, touching it with their tongues, sucking it like a sweet) all the more serious.†   (source)
  • Clary said, savoring the look of thinly disguised amazement on Isabelle's face.†   (source)
  • Without any ritual, without ceremony, they savored the warm bread and shared the wine and laughed about the stranger moments of the weekend.†   (source)
  • Though I don't gorge myself, I can eat some of everything—the roasted vegetables, the savory meat, the crisp greens, and creamy cheese.†   (source)
  • But I stayed too long, savoring the moment.†   (source)
  • He seems to be savoring the day, the food, the company.†   (source)
  • I savor the scowl on her face, the hate in her eyes.†   (source)
  • I mean, maybe she has had contact with less savory elements in town.†   (source)
  • This moment, long envisioned, had lost some of its savor.†   (source)
  • The Fourth of July holiday calls up memories of patriotic parades, the savory scents of smoky barbecue, sweet corn, and night skies bursting with showers of light.†   (source)
  • Sumiko read the letter from Ishmael Chambers in front of the tar-paper YMCA building; she read it again, savoring the more astonishing phrases, out by the camp hog pens.†   (source)
  • The nurse jabbed the needle in, and I winced, savoring the tiny hurt.†   (source)
  • They savored being indoors, for many had spent many months without a proper roof over their heads, but they knew deep down that a house like this, a palace like this, would not be surrendered so easily, and their relief was therefore fragile.†   (source)
  • Quinn savored the half dumpling she'd allowed herself.†   (source)
  • She savored her secret, which tasted deliciously of freedom, as she allowed his weight on her in the dark bedroom and waited for him to be done.†   (source)
  • Among the Japanese, of course, rice is never eaten with sweet foods, only with salty or savory foods.†   (source)
  • 'There is now,' he said, and he savored the last of the sweet.†   (source)
  • "Yes," Moody agreed, savoring the comfort of good food and good friends.†   (source)
  • He kissed me as if he'd savor it for the rest of his life.†   (source)
  • As the days slowly passed, the weather lost its cold edge, and the women savored moments of glee — they had survived the winter!†   (source)
  • Into the cavern rushed eight of the strongest miners carrying an immense caldron which bubbled and sizzled and sent great clouds of savory steam spiraling slowly to the ceiling.†   (source)
  • I slip a piece of apple into my mouth, savoring its juices.†   (source)
  • My brand-new Victoria's Secrets shredded, and I felt the worst of Brendan pause, savoring my terror.†   (source)
  • Everytime the Big Nurse and her hustling black boys turned up something new, such as the empty bottle of cough syrup or the fleet of wheelchairs parked at the end of the hall like empty rides in an amusement park, it brought another part of the night back sudden and clear to be told to the guys who weren't in on it and to be savored by the guys who were.†   (source)
  • He had opened the blinds, giving her this moment to savor, this glimpse of her life, contained within these brick walls, framed by the buffet she had refinished, the ficus tree she had not yet managed to kill off, the layers of glass and paint she'd washed so lovingly all these years.†   (source)
  • (Drily) Well—if the salt loses its savor— MAMA: Now that will do.†   (source)
  • I'm savoring my coffee, drinking it slowly.†   (source)
  • I let her bring the wet towel up to my face again, savoring her warmth as she leaned in closer.†   (source)
  • If was his boast that God Almighty never made a day too hot for him, and to the marrow of them his rheumatic bones felt and savoured the comfort of this blistering weather.†   (source)
  • Finally they brought him half a roast chicken with rice and two halves of a tinned pear and this he ate slowly, savoring each bite and proposing and rejecting various scenarios that might have occurred in the outer world or be occurring.†   (source)
  • The handfuls of earth made the only man who deserved that show of degradation less remote and more certain, as if the ground that he walked on with his fine patent leather boots in another part of the world were transmitting to her the weight and the temperature of his blood in a mineral savor that left a harsh aftertaste in her mouth and a sediment of peace in her heart.†   (source)
  • AT MAIL call I continued to be blessed with an avalanche of letters, every one of which I savored.†   (source)
  • While I savored it, I listened to the others talking and gathered that the older Useless was named Ambiades and the younger Sophos.†   (source)
  • "A true Marxist is objective, Comrade Political Officer," Ramius chided, savoring this last argument with Putin.†   (source)
  • Though savoring this sweet moment of family life, Kelley picked at her own food.†   (source)
  • I sat back, listening, and concentrated on this moment, my last act of revenge against my sister, and savored it.†   (source)
  • I would feel the weight, cut the skin and savor the fragrance.†   (source)
  • But the foreign delicacies Changazi savored most had names like Hildegund and Isabella.†   (source)
  • She would savor it, maybe fold it too in a brass box and hang it from her other ear.†   (source)
  • The emerging warrior in him savored their cutting edge of lethal aggression.†   (source)
  • I wanted to savor the last few hours before I had to hurt her.†   (source)
  • He looked just like a boy who is savoring the last bite of cake.†   (source)
  • "You won't be alive long enough to savor your victory—not while I still command the Shadow-Born!"†   (source)
  • When every moment, every moment must be first known and then savored.†   (source)
  • Now Esteban took the time to savor her fully and made sure that she felt pleasure too.†   (source)
  • 'They probably won't let you,' Colonel Korn remarked with a condescending smile, savoring the situation.†   (source)
  • We savored every bite.†   (source)
  • He savored a thought: My real life is about to begin.†   (source)
  • For half an hour, he is steady and deliberate, like someone savoring a fine meal.†   (source)
  • Ignatius brushed his lips against her throat, ready to bite down, savoring the moment for all its worth.†   (source)
  • Suddenly here was someone talking to him again as to a doctor, and he could feel his former life bridging the divide, coming back to him with its pleasant regularity of seeing patients and feeling their trusting eyes on him, those eyes he had pretended to ignore but in fact savored and now greatly missed.†   (source)
  • His eyes closed as he savored the scent.†   (source)
  • There was a long, heavy pause in the conversation as they sipped their drinks and savored the quiet.†   (source)
  • He turned it around, savoring the taste of it.†   (source)
  • Waiters in yellow guayabera jackets wheeled room-service tables along the path, delivering bottles and ice and canapés to Tranquility's guests, the majority of whom sat on their individual balconies savoring the end of the Caribbean day.†   (source)
  • If there was a little savor of patronage in the generous hospitality she exercised among her simple neighbors, it was never regarded as more than a natural emphasis of her undoubted claims to precedence.†   (source)
  • One day, while the two of them went to buy embroidery threads, Celia decided to cook them a savory flank-steak stew.†   (source)
  • With his sensuous mouth, as though sampling the contents of a bonbon box, he had savored the words blow your brains out.†   (source)
  • I took a long pull and savored the fact I survived, another bite out of the proverbial elephant.†   (source)
  • She took in the sweetness of his freedom and let it roll around her tongue, while she savored its fragrant juices and allowed the syrupy fluid to coat her mouth and drip slowly down her throat.†   (source)
  • Max and David savored their triumph as Nigel poked around, muttering the occasional "Would you look at that!" and "Those lucky devils!"†   (source)
  • So, up 39 points, we called all our time-outs in the last minute of the game just to extend the time, allowing us all to savor the moment.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, out in the mountains, Lonjino would go himself to a village and fetch his own calabash of beer to savor at the end of a day.†   (source)
  • I curl up on my own, trying to savor the heat left in the cushions by a body that is no longer there.†   (source)
  • ELESIN The waters of the bitter stream are honey to a man Whose tongue has savoured all.†   (source)
  • Ruby sat on the stool at the counter at Hanson's Drug Store on Fifty-first Street and Seventh Avenue in New York City, savoring a scrumptious strawberry ice cream soda topped with whipped cream, chopped nuts and a Maraschino cherry.†   (source)
  • In my loafers, Bermuda shorts, and a T-shirt, I savored my last moments out of uniform.†   (source)
  • I ask, savoring the victory along with my potatoes.†   (source)
  • He chewed it slowly, savoring the sweet juice covering the inside of his mouth.†   (source)
  • This is a precious experience, one to savor.†   (source)
  • I remember how I sat with him in those restaurants, both of us eating without savor, unjoyous, and my wanting to show him that I could be as steely as he, my chin as rigid and unquivering as any of his displays, that I would tolerate no mysteries either, no shadowy wounds or scars of the heart.†   (source)
  • It is too cool this evening for the adults, and, besides, Cal is content to sip his martini, savoring the sharp, juniper smell of it as it mixes with the heavier perfume of the surrounding air.†   (source)
  • And then by and by, Linnie had just seemed to stop savoring the sight of him.†   (source)
  • Unbeknownst to all those men who risked their lives to fight those great battles—men who deservedly savor the peace—plans are being hatched throughout the South to seek revenge for the Union victory.†   (source)
  • It couldn't slay the impertinent human, though the demon would have truly savored such an act.†   (source)
  • He savored another sip.†   (source)
  • Natalie savored her small victory.†   (source)
  • He'd been looking forward to savoring the moment of his first steps onto a space station.†   (source)
  • When he was ten feet from Albert — who was still dead to the world — George drew his hindquarters up under him and, after pausing long enough to fully savor the moment, launched himself in a tremendous leap while at the same time letting loose a terrifying roar.†   (source)
  • The first he gulped down; the second, savored.†   (source)
  • The witchery had almost ended the story according to its plan; Tayo had almost jammed the screwdriver into Emo's skull the way the witchery had wanted, savoring the yielding bone and membrane as the steel ruptured the brain.†   (source)
  • I had no choice but to share my remaining meal with my hungry partner, so we savored our last bites together.†   (source)
  • ALAN [savouring it.†   (source)
  • The race was too intent upon savouring its new-found freedom to look beyond the pleasures of the present.†   (source)
  • At which point—brought back to my senses with a punctured libido—I would find myself at the window once more, savoring with longing heart the festivities below.†   (source)
  • He sat, savoring the pine-scented air, resting his eyes on the nearby green, the distant blue.†   (source)
  • (Applause ) BRADY (Savoring it) "Colonel Brady."†   (source)
  • After gazing upon it as long as I dared without risking interruption by a search party, I pushed the lever and savored the supreme moment when thundering waters emptied into the bowl and vanished with a mighty gurgle.†   (source)
  • And it is true that there were some people who, when their sorrow was beginning to lose its savor, gently edged it toward pride and felt increasingly important because of their loss.†   (source)
  • Star said reprovingly, "Rufo, life is to be savored, not hurried."†   (source)
  • I would wear it a few hours more, however, to savor your passions in this fighting.†   (source)
  • Sitting with him perched upon a rail, watching the rosy lights reflected in the calm sea, savouring the benison of the warmevening and the comfort of her drink, she asked him, "Dwight, tell me about the cruise that Swordfish made.†   (source)
  • She is rich in pauses, which she savors in her mouth.†   (source)
  • Huge platters of fowl stuffed with savory fruits and nuts.†   (source)
  • "Vaporzzzz," she echoed, savoring the buzz on her tongue.†   (source)
  • Mal'akh savored the scene for several long seconds.†   (source)
  • I kissed her neck and ear, savoring her velvety skin.†   (source)
  • His strong fingers encircled her throat, savoring her delicate pulse.†   (source)
  • I wanted to savor the gingerbread bite by bite and sip the milk slowly, but I couldn't help myself.†   (source)
  • It can't hurt to savor the occasion, at any rate.†   (source)
  • All that smoke and savor rising so delicately from our altars.†   (source)
  • Eggs, pippins, savory, what else did she want?†   (source)
  • He leaned on his sword, drew a deep breath, and allowed himself a moment to savor the victory.†   (source)
  • It's something she can savor and control, this feeling of having been wronged by the world.†   (source)
  • He took another and sat back to savor it.†   (source)
  • I've never been savored like this before, and it's absolutely beautiful.†   (source)
  • As the Hassasin stood there savoring his prize, he ignored the throb in his arm.†   (source)
  • I take another deep breath and close my eyes, savoring the moment like I did years ago.†   (source)
  • But for the moment, I feel something close to elation and I let myself savor it.†   (source)
  • He smiled, savoring the coolness of the evening.†   (source)
  • So many places to touch, so much to taste. and all the endless night to savor.†   (source)
  • I savored her touch and leaned in to kiss her.†   (source)
  • Here, she could savor the quiet and the calm.†   (source)
  • Instead, she savored the way Tariq had said us.†   (source)
  • The lamb, which had been encrusted with rosemary and breadcrumbs, was savory and tender.†   (source)
  • They would be savoring food and the comfort of safety.†   (source)
  • "Of course," he said, seeming to savor Bast's reaction.†   (source)
  • And as we savored our treats, we listened to a song by Rachmaninoff called "Oriental Dance."†   (source)
  • Help yourself to a drink and savory snacks.†   (source)
  • In the dark, I could savor the words without embarrassment.†   (source)
  • But it is not allowed, to swallow, to savor.†   (source)
  • "Consumers savor the flavor while operators embrace [the] profit margin," Advertising Age noted.†   (source)
  • Taste every word, Meggie, whispered Mo's voice inside her, savor it on your tongue.†   (source)
  • Eragon ran his fingers over the cover and savored its cool smoothness.†   (source)
  • 'That doesn't sound like the Janet Savory I spent a delightful half hour with.†   (source)
  • Meggie savored the name like an exotic fruit.†   (source)
  • She lit a cigarette and took a long drag, savoring the warmth as it permeated her lungs.†   (source)
  • I put them on, moving slowly to savor all the exciting messages my body was sending me.†   (source)
  • She spoke slowly now, as though savoring the immensity of her news.†   (source)
  • Kaltain pulled her red cape around her, savoring its warmth.†   (source)
  • There was no savory to be found, and the apples were small and knobbly.†   (source)
  • I savored the thunk it made when it hit the slack.†   (source)
  • The dangers of the melee were only a savor to Robert, but this touched on his pride.†   (source)
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