They did admit, however, when back on board the schooner, that the smell of the furs within which the maidens had spent the past winter was less agreeable than the savor of fish.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
"Why, yes, clever in a way," admitted the doctor, glaring at the captain through his big black-rimmed glasses, "but does it not savor somewhat of-h'm-of deception?
"The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island"
Cyril Burleigh
It had, in the words of a thirteenth-century translator of Bishop Grosseteste's Castle of Love, "no savor before a clerk."
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos