It was just as well she did, for I was about to say that only idealists would add sauerkraut to a delicately flavoured game bird.
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford
They have been an hour on deck, and like the movement, and the breakfast; and possibly their irrepressible joyous sense of superiority is flavoured with pity for their sisters lying low and pale.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
But now, sitting beside this beautiful woman who had been so much to him, the desire to bridge over the years, to be once more in relations with her outside the conventionalities of a ball-room, to take part with her in some scene, discreet, yet flavoured by the past with a delicate poignancy, came upon him like a strong man armed.
"The Literary Sense"
E. Nesbit