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savor
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
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- Mr Dark's lips licked and savoured.†
Part 1
- Each soul, a vast warm fingerprint, felt different, she could roll it in her hand like clay; smelled different, Will could hear her snuffing his life away; tasted different, she savoured them with her raw-gummed mouth, her puff-adder tongue; sounded different, she stuffed their souls in one ear, tissued them out the other!†
Part 2
- She gaped her mouth to savour air.†
Part 2savour = take great pleasure fromunconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it savor.
- Maybe a man walked around in a monkey skin a million years ago, stuffing himself with other people's unhappiness, chewed their pain all day like spearmint gum, for the sweet savour.†
Part 2
- Starting all over again, everything fine and new and glorious, all the things to be done and thought and savored again.†
Part 2savored = took great pleasure from
- The Witch, mouth wide, savoring doom,
Part 2 *savoring = taking great pleasure from
Definitions:
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(1)
(savor) to take great pleasure from; or the quality enjoyed
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, savory can refer to an aroma or flavor that is not sweet, or to a specific spice of the mint family or related plants.
Even more rarely, savor can mean to have traces of -- as when Alexander Hamilton wrote "Its situation must always savor of weakness."