tartness

There was a tartness in his tone evoked by the tartness she had used.

"You mean you never formed any, I suppose," I returned with some tartness.

Some of these had at least the merit of tartness and humour.

Sprinkle a little flour and sugar, according to the tartness of the fruit.

I was glad to see how free the answer was from all tartness or conceit.

He insisted to know; where you will not be, I replied with some tartness.

"I must leave that to you to guess," said Mary, with a hint of tartness, but smiling.

"Perhaps I did, and perhaps I did not," she answered, matching his tartness.

Their tartness and strictness and miserliness had made the life of the girls in the school uncomfortable for some time.

The tartness of the apricots gives a flavor that is pleasing to most persons.