Cautiously she sampled her first pineapple and another fruit whose taste she likened to that of `` a rich pear ''.

`` It does '', Shayne grunted sourly, still able to taste her mouth on his in the Green Jungle parking lot.

Added to the argument was the fact that while she might have tasted the coffee if it had been still hot, she might even have drunk some of it, she wouldn't have taken enough to kill her, for she would have been warned by its taste.

Only, this old man's connivance was even less to her taste than Selma Cotter's open censure.

The line " There's this to say for blood and breath ,/ they give a man a taste for death " supplies the title for Peter O ' Donnell's 1969 Modesty Blaise thriller, A Taste for Death, also the inspiration for P. D. James ' 1986 crime novel, A Taste for Death, the seventh in her Adam Dalgliesh series.

By then they had probably developed a taste for Madeira wine, and on 29 September near Cape Charles all they took from the Betty of Virginia was her cargo of Madeira, before they scuttled her with the remaining cargo.

After her downfall, her affectations and excessive imaginations become eventually subdued by the voice of reason in the form of Stuart, a paternal figure, under whose guidance the protagonist receives a sound education and correction of her misguided taste

During the " The Dark Phoenix Saga ", Phoenix becomes overwhelmed and corrupted by her first taste of evil and transforms into a force of total destruction, called " Dark Phoenix ", consuming a star, inadvertently killing the inhabitants of the star's solar system, and jeopardizing the entire universe.

Foreign ambassadors found her gracious and beautiful and she had good taste, although her character showed some extravagant traits.

A male which has found a female will attempt to taste her urine to see if she is in estrus.

She got her first taste of singing solo at a fire hall, where she soaked up the crowd ’ s appreciation.

He reassures her and tells her that he loves her and that she has given him " a taste for life ", moments before the police come for him.

In March 2011, her eclectic musical taste was revealed when details of her small record collection kept at at the Castle of Mey were made public.

She had a taste for ska music and her records included artists such as the yodeller Montana Slim, Tony Hancock, The Goons and Noël Coward.

His father remarried in 1827 to Mary Ann Bull, who shared her husband's strong love of nature and had perhaps a more cultivated taste.

Jones, a gifted architect steeped in the latest European taste, also designed the Queen's House at Greenwich for Anne, one of the first true Palladian buildings in England ; and the Dutch inventor Salomon de Caus laid out her gardens at Greenwich and Somerset House.

Betsy quickly became known for her risqué taste in fashion, starting with her wedding dress.

If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.

His plans and dreams had revolved around her so much and for so long that now he felt as if he had nothing.

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.

He stood looking down at her for a moment, wondering what could have reduced her to this condition.

He hovered over her to shield her, for spent bullets were thudding against the rear walls.

`` He works for my father '', the girl said, and then seemed to change her mind.

That mistake, she thought, had cost her dearly these past few days, and she wanted to avoid falling into any more of the traps that the mountain might set for her.

All of her movements were careful and methodical, partaking of the stealth of a criminal who has plotted his felony for months in advance and knows exactly which step to take next in the course of the final execution of his crime.

Bushes and vines abetted the rocks in forming thorny detours for the struggling stranger, and without the direct light of the sun to act as compass, Pamela could no longer be positive of her direction.

At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.

Silence walked at Pamela's side, its presence numbingly close, yet too far for her to hear.

She seemed to have come such a long distance -- too far for her destination which had wilfully been swallowed up in the greedy gloom of the trees.

She could not scream, for even if a sound could take shape within her parched mouth, who would hear, who would listen??

He waited at the car side for a moment, looking down at her expectantly.

Let Senora Brannon live in her father's house for a time.

He released her reluctantly for her enthusiastic reunion with Old Hap.

And she really tried to go a step further and say she hoped they'd be just as right as they now were for her and for Rod.

How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.

My lovely caller -- Joyce Holland was her name -- had previously done three filmed commercials for zing, and this evening, the fourth, a super production, had been filmed at the home of Louis Thor.

In the fullness of her vocal splendor, however, she could sing the famous scene magnificently.

They cultivated only those arts which could add splendor to the nation, to the neglect of those which supported it – They neglected Trade & substantial Manufacture ... but does it follow that a total revolution is necessary that because we have given ourselves up too much to the ornaments of life, we will now have none at all ". When attending a dinner at Holland House, Fox's niece Caroline was sat next to Reynolds and " burst out into glorification of the Revolution – and was grievously chilled and checked by her neighbour's cautious and unsympathetic tone ".

) she sees a thousand discordant opinions live in the strictest harmony ... it will finally raise her to a pitch of greatness and lustre, before which the glory of ancient Greece and Rome shall dwindle to a point, and the splendor of modern Empires fade into obscurity.

Witnessing such splendor, Lisa is impressed that Akeem would have given it up just for her.

Semele, during her pregnancy with Dionysus, was destroyed by the sight of the splendor of Zeus.

Hygieia and her five sisters each performed a facet of Apollo's art: Hygieia (" Hygiene " the goddess / personification of health, cleanliness, and sanitation ), Panacea ( the goddess of Universal remedy ), Iaso ( the goddess of recuperation from illness ), Aceso ( the goddess of the healing process ), and Aglæa / Ægle ( the goddess of beauty, splendor, glory, magnificence, and adornment ).

On her death in 1679, she was buried with great splendor by her brother Condé, and her heart, as she had directed, was sent to the nuns of the Port-Royal des Champs.

Grateful Americans honor the ' Grandmother of the Glades ' by following her splendid example in safeguarding America's beauty and splendor for generations to come.

Queenrid, consort of Offa, a cruel, ambitious, and blood-thirsty woman, who envied the retinue and splendor of the unsuspicious king, resolved in some manner to have him murdered, before he left their court, hoping by that to gain his immense riches ; for this purpose she, with her malicious and fascinating arts, overcame the king – her husband, which she most cunningly effected, and, under deep disguises, laid open to him her portentous design ; a villain was therefore hired, named Gimberd, who was to murder the innocent prince.

The city lives all its splendor during the Carnival celebration that lasts 4 days and 5 nights, being the headquarters city of Las Tablas Best Carnival of the republic, where one of the main attractions of the carnival in Las Tablas, are famous or culecos mojadera, which is sprayed with water ( clean and purified ) to the participants of this activity from sisternas cars ( especially pre-sterilized for this activity ) located throughout the park and surrounding streets are where the carnival, while can admire the tour of the queens of both streets, street up and down the street on spectacular floats, and suitable for this activity packed day, with the notes of the contagious and famous and well known murgas of Panama ( which also have its epicenter in the town of Las Tablas, where the best murgas the country ), do jumping and dancing for joy to young and old alike, unable to contain her joy and excitement following the queen with the most sympathetic all day without stopping or until the forces accompanying the activity takes place during four days of carnival, another attraction of this carnival is wasteful luxury and splendor of the costumes shown in the queens and their ladies, and the designs and finishes epectaculares floats of both daytime ( from culecos or mojaderas ) and evening, reaching its greatest splendor Carnival on Monday, his grace and charm of women represented in their Tableña and queens in ladies of his court to make the carnival Tableño one of the best and most famous carnavals the world.

Meanwhile, notwithstanding its external splendor, her life had grown sad.

Later, when she visits the singer Josépha ( on whom her husband once doted ), Adeline is struck by the splendor earned by a life of materialistic seduction.

The enchantress, who cursed her parents, saw her and made an offer to transform her into something of great beauty and splendor.

" She lives in the greatest possible splendor, spends twelve thousand pounds a year, and she is the first of her social class to employ liveried servants-she even has liveried chaise porters.

" The Jewish sage, who was the father of the young woman, brought her to the king, and she was assigned to rooms fitted up with princely splendor, where she gave birth to a boy, who received the name " Bostanai ," from the garden (" bostan ") which the king had seen in his dream.

Her original name is unknown, but her Egyptian name translates as " One who sees Horus, the invisible splendor of Ra ".