"Untasted" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... silent with down cast eyes on his almost untasted salad. He couldn't bear to think of his father's being attacked like that, hit with a lightning bolt out of a clear sky. The more he thought about it the more he resented it. Of course Dad would agree. He was a good sport as Mr. Cressy said. Rut that didn't make the thing ...
— Wild Wings - A Romance of Youth • Margaret Rebecca Piper
... and the most beautiful. She did not seem very youthful; at least her features spoke not of youth, nor did they imply age, but the period of life when woman is like a ripe grape, the sweetness of which is diminished by being suffered to hang a single day more on the vine untasted. She had a pale skin—ye see how pale—her cheeks were red as the flower that blooms among thorns, and her eye shone like the little flower which emulates the blue of the sky. Her lips were red and pouting, ...
— Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3) • James Athearn Jones
... listening to this conversation. He held his fork, with a bit of untasted pigeon on it, uplifted in one hand; with the other he drummed nervously on the table. His eyes were riveted on Victorine, who stood behind the old man's chair, her soft black eyes glancing quietly from one thing to ...
— Between Whiles • Helen Hunt Jackson
... about the table and ordered wine; mine remained untasted while the others drank. I determined to touch no ...
— The Black Wolf's Breed - A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening - in the Reign of Louis XIV • Harris Dickson
... they wet his lips—the wine so long standing untasted! They open his mouth, and pour some of it down his throat, then stand over him ...
— The Flag of Distress - A Story of the South Sea • Mayne Reid
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