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I will not say that the Hanson family was Poor White, because the name savours of offence; but I may go as far as this - they were, in many points, not unsimilar to the people usually so-cared.

The Silverado Squatters 1884

I will not say that the Hanson family was Poor White, because the name savours of offence; but I may go as far as this -- they were, in many points, not unsimilar to the people usually so-cared.

The Silverado Squatters Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

"Right; you're right, or nearly so," replied Harold; "but don't you think the word savours too much of perfection, seeing that breakfast would add to the pleasure of the present delightful state of things, and make them even more sailumterracious than they are?"

Black Ivory Francis B. Pearson 1859

I hope, -- though just now the idea savours of the ludicrous, -- that the day may some time arrive when our Congressmen and Secretaries of the Treasury will spend their vacations in writing books about Greek antiquities, or in illustrating the meaning of Homeric phrases.

Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology 1872

These Booth performers -- which designation savours suggestively of Mountebanks -- would do well to play their peculiar music and sing their peculiar hymns within the four walls of their own places of worship, employing the intervals essential for gaining of wind and for rest of muscle in meditating, perhaps breathlessly, on the inspired Pauline teaching which will inform them that even the works of an Apostle, if he have not charity, will be as

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 27, 1892 Various

As he quotes Paradise Lost, his voice savours every syllable of Milton's words and when, in outrage at his rejection by the exile's family, he burns their cottage, he utters a Hamletesque cry of "I sweep to my revenge."

Frankenstein - review 2011

But if anything spoils this book it is a continual reference to the present which diminishes its historical objectivity and savours too insistently of a commercial promotion.

Anthony Symondson on "Hardman of Birmingham" 2009

In these films one savours every step on their paths to righting the wrongs: Judd is a hunted fugitive and Lopez is a mother thrown back on her own very finite resources – but neither frets about how big and hard their Magnum .45s feel.

Colmbiana proves that Luc Besson has a type … women with big guns 2011

Inevitably, there will be pieces to pick up, and Payne savours every calamity and all the clean-up that must follow.

Alexander Payne's The Descendants – not just for the kids, thankfully 2012

Nicholas Woodeson savours every line of the rantipole, self-regarding Mr Prince who proudly announces "I am the American King Lear" and Keeley Hawes elegantly makes a case for Ben's reproving but desolate wife.

Review | Theatre | Rocket to the Moon | Venue | Michael Billington 2011