sourish

Example Sentences

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Duke Vincentio finally returns to square these various accounts, "measure for measure," and give this sourish play an ambiguously happy ending.

From Time Magazine Archive

For each guest there was a cocoa-nut shell, half-filled with miti, a sourish beverage extracted from the cocoa-palm.

From A Woman's Journey Round the World by Pfeiffer, Ida

It stood open, and from the cool and shadowy interior came a sourish smell of malt liquors and the hum of voices.

From The Wrong Twin by Wilson, Harry Leon

In the course of three or four weeks it acquires a sourish taste and to persons accustomed to the use of it is a very agreeable food.

From Legends of the Skyline Drive and the Great Valley of Virginia by Northington, Etta Belle Walker

There it was dark, and one smelled the boards of an old wooden box that stood there, garden loam, and the sourish barberries.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various