Perfumes, benign devotions, savors of offerings burn'd, And holy rites, the engines are with which their hearts are turn'd, By men that pray to them.
"The Approach to Philosophy"
Ralph Barton Perry
To do so is both inelegant and unfashionable, and savors of the school-room.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
This may be a very prudent mode of managing matters, for aught I know, but to me it savors rather of cold-blooded calculation, than ardent or even passably warm affection.
"An Old Sailor's Yarns"
Nathaniel Ames