But there was a look about her mouth as though she were tasting lemons.

Their report reveals that the lagoon water, while not tasting very good, was drinkable, though " muddy and dirty ".

Being pressured by his advisers to declare coffee the " bitter invention of Satan " because of its popularity among Muslims and it being a sort of antithesis or substitute for wine ( which was used in the Eucharist ), upon tasting it he instead declared that, " This devil's drink is so delicious ... we should cheat the devil by baptizing it.

The government opened the sake-brewing research institute in 1904, and in 1907 the very first government-run sake tasting / competition was held.

Pliny also quotes Agriopas regarding a tale of a man who was turned into a wolf after tasting the entrails of a human child, but was restored to human form 10 years later.

The success of California and new world Chardonnays, partly encouraged by the Californian showing at the Judgment of Paris wine tasting, brought varietal wine labeling to more prominence and the easy to pronounce Chardonnay grape was one of the largest beneficiaries.

The water was silty and bad tasting but it could be used if no other water was available.

Great caution was required, as abraded skin could absorb a dangerous dose of the drug, and merely tasting some of the concentrated preparations available could be fatal.

The title stuck, and twelve years ago an annual Tomato Festival was re-established, replete with a tomato growing contest, tomato tasting, farmers market, vendor's booths, 5K run and, of course, the crowning of the new Tomato Queen.

Southampton was rated having the best tasting tap water in the country in 2008 by the National Rural Water Association.

Racine was awarded as having the best tasting city water in America by the U. S. Conference of Mayors on June 20, 2011.

References to his " blind tasting of wine " have led to the common misconception that Dom Pérignon was blind.

The Platte's water was silty and bad tasting, but it was usable if no other water was available.

In 1984, Highland Park was the only whisky ever to have scored a rating of 100 % by the regular tasting team of The Scotsman, a national newspaper of Scotland.

After this vision had closed, another great and glorious vision burst upon us ; for Elijah the prophet, who was taken to heaven without tasting death, stood before us, and said: Behold, the time has fully come, which was spoken of by the mouth of Malachi -- testifying that he should be sent, before the great and dreadful day of the Lord come -- To turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the children to the fathers, lest the whole earth be smitten with a curse -- Therefore, the keys of this dispensation are committed into your hands ; and by this ye may know that the great and dreadful day of the Lord is near, even at the doors.

Faygo brands received some high praise from the culinary industry when it was announced that the September 2009 issue of Bon Appétit magazine ranked Faygo Root Beer as the best tasting American root beer, describing it as " dry and crisp, with a frothy head, a good bite and a long finish.

Azra / Ezra was a scribe and judge over his people, given a collection of laws and punishments from the Archangel Uriel in 2 Esdras, also mentioning he entered heaven " without tasting Death's taint ".

At that time, however, the only recipe for bread known in Japan was for making a salty and sour tasting bread, ill-suited to Japanese tastes at the time.

As he did not have time to distill and age each one for tasting, he instead made a loaf of bread from each recipe and the one with no rye was judged the best tasting.

His mouth was open, his neck corded with the strain of his screams.

clutched her throat and sucked up the moisture in her mouth so that her tongue was dry and hard and stuck to the roof of her mouth and her teeth were clenched together in the rigid fixture of her jaws.

Her mouth, which had been so much in my thoughts, was warm and moist and tender.

His arms hung like empty shirt sleeves, and his mouth was slightly open.

The mouth was thin-lipped and wide, the long cleft in the upper lip like a slide.

She was so beautiful with her rosy mouth and haughty air that she had to be wicked.

He was seeing, somehow, the face of a young boy, the boy Simms Purdew must once have been, a boy with sorrel hair, and blue eyes dancing with gaiety, and the boy mouth grinning trustfully among the freckles.

Her voice was ripe and full and her teeth flashed again in Sicilian brilliance before the warm curved lips met and her mouth settled in repose.

Big Hans began pouring whisky in the kid's mouth but his mouth filled without any getting down his throat and in a second it was dripping from his chin.

As Letch's antisocial conduct increased, our invitations decreased and my heart was in my mouth whenever I played hostess at a fashionable `` screenland '' gathering.

She was a living doll and no mistake -- the blue-black bang, the wide cheekbones, olive-flushed, that betrayed the Cherokee strain in her Midwestern lineage, and the mouth whose only fault, in the novelist's carping phrase, was that the lower lip was a trifle too voluptuous.

There were bilateral pterygia and arcus senilis, and the mouth was edentulous.

Half a mile below at the mouth of Salyer's Canyon was an old ranch that the company had purchased from A. J. Armstrong, occupied by a Mexican, his wife, and an old trapper.

When late in the summer the full extent of the damage was assessed, all but fifty of the Scots, Swiss and metis moved up the Red to the mouth of the Pembina river.

In September 1822 two companies of infantry arrived at the mouth of the St. Peter's River, the head of navigation on the Mississippi, and began construction of Fort St. Anthony which, upon completion, was renamed in honor of its commander, Colonel Josiah Snelling.

Saliva gathered in the mouth after a night's sleep was considered poisonous ; ;

She was standing on a flat rock three feet above ground and when she saw him she rose to full height and roared, opening her mouth wide, lashing her tail, and stamping at the rock with both forefeet in irritation, as much as to say: `` How dare you disturb me in my sacred precinct ''??

On the middle Mississippi a principal post was to be located near the mouth of the Arkansas.

It was so utterly unexpected that Marty stood for several moments with his mouth hanging open foolishly after it had happened.

He was well rid of her.

He certainly didn't want a wife who was fickle as Ann.

But all of this was rationalization.

The easiest thing would be to sell out to Al Budd and leave the country, but there was a stubborn streak in him that wouldn't allow it.

The best antidote for the bitterness and disappointment that poisoned him was hard work.

He found that if he was tired enough at night, he went to sleep simply because he was too exhausted to stay awake.

each day the hurt was a little duller, a little less poignant.

Because the summer was unusually dry and hot, the spring produced a smaller stream than in ordinary years.

The grass in the meadows came fast, now that the warm weather was here.

When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.

Morgan hesitated, thinking that if this was a trick, it was a good one.

He didn't think it was possible for this couple to be pretending.

Her face was very thin, and burned by the sun until much of the skin was dead and peeling, the new skin under it red and angry.

Her blond hair was frowzy, her dress torn in several places, and her shoes were so completely worn out that they were practically no protection.

It must have hurt her even to walk, for the sole was completely off her left foot and Morgan saw that it was bruised and bleeding.

She was amazingly light, and so relaxed in his arms that he wasn't even sure she was conscious.

Any lingering suspicion that this was a trick Al Budd had thought up was dispelled.