Gratis ordbok - engelska svenska tyska lexikon

Exempel

• Salt oysters, on being transferred to fresh water, are "fattened" in the course of two or three days ; if allowed to remain longer they become lean again, and are flavorless.
• [...] and as for fruit, the high garden wall was lined with pear trees, spread out flat against it, where they managed to produce a cold, flavorless fruit, a good deal akin to cucumbers.
• [...] and the gravestone of its dead owner on the hill was no more flavorless of his personality than was this plain house in which he had lived and died.