This great philosopher freely acknowledged his own mistakes in natural philosophy, because he proceeded in many things upon conjecture, as all men must do; and he found that Gassendi, who had made the doctrine of Epicurus as
palatable as he could, and the vortices of Descartes, were equally to be exploded.
Fogg accordingly tasted the dish, but, despite its spiced sauce, found it far from
palatable. He rang for the landlord, and, on his appearance, said, fixing his clear eyes upon him, "Is this rabbit, sir?"
Here was the appearance and the scent of a man-thing and Numa had tasted of human flesh and learned that though not the most
palatable it was certainly by far the easiest to secure, yet there was that in the bestial growls of the strange creature which reminded him of formidable antagonists and gave him pause, while his hunger and the odor of the hot flesh of Bara goaded him almost to madness.
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.
Game was scanty, and they had to eke out their scanty fare with wild roots and vegetables, such as the Indian potato, the wild onion, and the prairie tomato, and they met with quantities of "red root," from which the hunters make a very
palatable beverage.
Her unsophisticated open-air existence required no varnish of conventionality to make it
palatable to him.
"Belonged to the faction which affected to believe that there was no popular love for Shakespeare, to render whom
palatable he arranged Romeo and Juliet for the stage, with a double denouement--one serious, the other hilarious.
So ravenous was she that she did not even wait for her companion to reach the table, and as she ate she could have sworn that never before had she tasted more
palatable food.
We slept till far into the afternoon, and then got up hungry enough to make cotter fare quite
palatable to the king, the more particularly as it was scant in quan- tity.
A disagreeable truth would be
palatable through her lips, but I am the wretchedest being in the world at a civil falsehood."
"I did hear, too, that there was a time, when sermon-making was not so
palatable to you as it seems to be at present; that you actually declared your resolution of never taking orders, and that the business had been compromised accordingly."
With his crude stone knife he cut a juicy steak from the hindquarters, and while the great lion paced, growling, back and forth below him, Lord Greystoke filled his savage belly, nor ever in the choicest of his exclusive London clubs had a meal tasted more
palatable.