The first one went very well, but when the dishes were passed again, each taster looked at it anxiously; for none were very good, there was nothing to fall back upon, and variety is the spice of life, as every one knows.
"Spinning-Wheel Stories"
Louisa May Alcott
They say he was a bold man who first ate an oyster; a much more undaunted experimentalist was the first taster of the terrapin.
"Border and Bastille"
George A. Lawrence
She constituted herself cup-bearer, wine-taster and handmaiden for their daughter.
"The Everlasting Whisper"
Jackson Gregory