He saw, as clearly and critically as ever, the pleasant forms and hues and groupings of things, but it was dull and savourless, while all the attractive ideas that sprang up like flowers in his mind, the happy trains of thought, in which some single fancy ramified and extended itself into unsuspected combinations and connections, these all seemed hardly worth recognising or pursuing.
"Watersprings"
Arthur Christopher Benson
Perhaps by-and-by that will be savourless: we degenerate.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
Admitting for the moment that he is innocent of this crime, you would nevertheless condemn her to an existence flat and savourless, differing in no essential from that of the beasts of the field.
"The Gloved Hand"
Burton E. Stevenson