What is "appetising"

Usage examples of "appetising".

But while he basked in his new happiness I travelled in my close stuffy envelope to Dulminster, and after having been tossed in and out of bags, shuffled, stamped, thumped, tied up, and generally shaken about, I arrived one morning at Dulminster Archdeaconry, and was laid on the breakfast table among other appetising things to greet Mrs.

I smiled to myself at her doctrines, which were as much as to say that the best way of curing appetite was to place a series of appetising dishes before a hungry man, forbidding him to touch them.

After a dinner as good as the supper of the night before, though different from it in its details, and appetising enough to awaken the dead, we went to see Madame Morin, who received us with the easy grace of a Parisian lady.

I awoke in a comfortable bed in a pleasantly sunlit room with an indescribably appetising odour tantalising me.

She ordered the sedan-chairs to be sent back, and went to my landlady to order an appetising repast, and to procure the chafing-dish and the spirits of wine she required for her own cooking.

Augustine was telling them, from a fish point of view, of the deadly danger that lay concealed beneath the appetising wriggles of the agonised worm.

Lined with spotless linen, and covered with small sidedishes, whence an appetising odour at once gamy and piquant seemed to emanate, and bearing, moreover, a small bottle of Lafitte, and a decanter of sherry that looked like a liquid topaz, the tray reconciled Mr.

She had lost weight during the voyage, the lack of exercise more than compensated by the dearth of appetising food.

He was helping himself to some gazelle, which sent forth an appetising odour, and Ouardi was proudly pouring out for him the first glass of blithely winking champagne.

Jim answered, with a quick glance at the hot cakes and chops that had such an appetising odour.

It was not exactly appetising but it would be filling, once it had been ladled out into the wooden bowls which they carried in their packs.

They could not eat what had been prepared by Mussulman hands, and so they sat gazing wistfully at the appetising dishes, and contented themselves with a little fruit.

But all the same, when one of them raising forward painfully her broken form lifted the cover of the pot, the escaping steam had an appetising smell.

Whilst he was so engaged his landlady entered, carrying a tray of appetising appearance.

He no longer got up in the morning with a certain uplift of spirit, work seemed duller and more laborious, food less appetising, sleep more imperative but less refreshing.