Next, the butter--the sham and
tasteless butter; no salt in it, and made of goodness knows what.
The food consisted of about a pound of some solid substance of the consistency of cheese and almost
tasteless, while the liquid was apparently milk from some animal.
Come thou, and if I am too
tasteless of thy valuable treasures, warm my heart with the transporting thought of conveying them to others.
The sparkle and bubble has gone out and it is a
tasteless drink."
A
tasteless and barbaric display, a vulgar generosity, an ignorant and purposeless prodigality.
From the pepper cruet you may shake a cloud of something
tasteless and melancholy, like volcanic dust.
The lakes aforesaid send him their waters, and with these, and others that come to him, he makes a grand and imposing entrance into Portugal; but for all that, go where he may, he shows his melancholy and sadness, and takes no pride in breeding dainty choice fish, only coarse and
tasteless sorts, very different from those of the golden Tagus.
Still, her education and habits triumphed, and she would not commend what she regarded as ingenuity misspent, and
tasteless, because senseless, luxury.
Ten to one, you would have thought him a
tasteless, indiscreet, methodistical man.
And she could not see him otherwise, for he was connected with what there was of the salt of passion in her
tasteless life - the passion of indignation, of courage, of pity, and even of self-sacrifice.
The idea of some active good within her reach, "haunted her like a passion," and another's need having once come to her as a distinct image, preoccupied her desire with the yearning to give relief, and made her own ease
tasteless. She was full of confident hope about this interview with Lydgate, never heeding what was said of his personal reserve; never heeding that she was a very young woman.
Never, thought Tara of Helium, had aught so delicious impinged upon her palate, and yet it was naught else than the almost
tasteless usa, which is considered to be palatable only after having been cooked and highly spiced.