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Worst of all, the meals were sparse and unappetizing, consisting largely of stale bread and ill-flavored cheese served with cheap, warm beer.

With a Single Spell Watt-Evans, Lawrence, 1954- 1987

The plants should be cut for use while in the seed-leaf; as, when much developed, they become strong, rank, and ill-flavored.

The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. Fearing Burr

To this generation at large, he is only an indistinct shadow, -- a faint reminiscence of a red nose, -- an ill-flavored name, redolent of brandy and of brimstone, his beverage in life and his well-earned punishment in eternity, which suggests to the serious mind dirt, drunkenness, and hopeless damnation.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various

Think of it, and then revel, you women, in the thought that we are only bored occasionally -- once a week, say, or once a day, or once every two hours, taking our bores as we do ill-flavored medicine.

From a Girl's Point of View Lilian Bell

Dreams ill-flavored as Orestes 'filled her nights, and how tired she was must have sopped into her pillow, but her capacity for the present lessened her dread and made more bearable the fluent and fateful passing of the time.

Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928

It is not sweet to the taste of the flesh; for the inferior part finds it bitter and ill-flavored; but it is sweet to the mouth of the heart, after it is once swallowed, and by me, whose taste is that of my Well-beloved, it is more to be desired than all other delights.

Song of Songs of Solomon / Explanations and Reflections having Reference to the Interior Life 1879

I could look at him and thank him, and feel amused at his sympathy with the grimace I had made, after swallowing the ill-flavored waters.

Little Novels Wilkie Collins 1856

It must be perfectly obvious that to sell a cheap and ill-flavored article at a high price, under the pretence that it is a superior article, is nothing less than downright cheating.

Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852

No doubt the individual sons of Abraham whom we found in our ill-favored and ill-flavored streets were apt to be unpleasing specimens of the race.

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

Where flowers ill-flavored shed their sweets around,

The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 02: Additional Poems (1837-1848) Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851