savorous

“Well, we could do so. But we don’t much wish to eat our words, as they say. Meat-pie! is only a word, after all…We can make it odorous, and savorous, and even filling, but it remains a word. It fools the stomach and gives no strength to the hungry man.”

They were, as I expected, sitting around the fire eating their supper, and there came to my nostrils the savorous odour of roast pork.

And since we had already learnt that the monsters came into the cave, as well as haunting the rocks outside, I agreed, when Billy suggested it, that even if we could not kill them outright we might make the water in the cave so exceeding noisome that they would depart thence and seek more savorous quarters.

My weakness by thy savorous strength is nursed, And in thy gaping love absorbing me I taste the time when all I am shall be In Nature's vast and flowering corpse dispersed.

Thereafter, on cushioned beds were repasts, long and savorous, eaten to the sound of crotal and of flute.