The once-conservative shoemaker Ferragamo and its new designer, Cristina Ortiz, took the label tartish-sexy with slinky disco outfits, which might grab attention just as the family-owned company weighs a possible initial public offering of stock. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The Santa Rosas are on the smallish side, and even when fully and dropping off the tree they tend to be firm and tartish. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In fact, Jones' point was that the fashionably tartish dress that girls—and, increasingly, not-so young-women—seem to be going in for is largely a reaction to the above-described double bind that females in our culture find themselves in. ❋ Mike L (2006)
For here at once they not only with diversity of objects recreate the sight, but with many of the same do also please the smell, and with most contribute delights to the taste; also they flatter and excite the appetite, especially with the multitudes of oranges and lemons here growing, both sweet and sour, and those that participate of both tastes, and are only pleasantly tartish. ❋ George Alfred Williams (1903)
The word may be seen in Johnson's _Dictionary_, with the citation from Bacon, and instead of vaguely calling it "a small black and tartish plum," your botanical readers know it as the _Prunus insititia_. ❋ Various (1852)
The red is of a slightly tartish taste, but not unpleasant; the yellow is somewhat less acid, but otherwise similar to the red; the white, however, is most excellent tasted, and possesses a delicious sweetness which causes it to be highly relished. ❋ Unknown (1841)
Sagal's success began with her role as the tartish Peg Bundy in the sitcom "Married With Children," which ran from 1987 to 1997. ❋ Unknown (2012)
When they use it they rinse it with water to which it imparts a sweet and yet tartish taste by no means unpleasant. ❋ Unknown (1826)
When just drawn it is of a most delicious sweetness; but in a few days it acquires a tartish and more spirituous flavour; though I never saw any one intoxicated by it. ❋ Unknown (1789)
When just drawn it is of a most delicious sweetness; but in a few days it acquires a tartish and more spirituous flavour: though I never saw any one intoxicated by it. ❋ Equiano, Olaudah (1789)
To procure the wine, they eat off part of a branch, and fasten to the remaining part a large reed or hollow cane, into which the liquor drops, being like white-wine in colour, and of a grateful tartish taste. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
Our men gave it the same name; it has a pleasant tartish taste, but is a little woody, probably only for want of culture: These plums were not plenty; so that having the two qualities of a dainty, scarcity and excellence, it is no wonder that they were held in the highest estimation. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
Smell, it does not sensibly ferment with Alkalies, nor alters the Colour of blue Paper; after some time, it grows a little acid, and tastes a little tartish. ❋ D. Qu��lus (1742)
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I didn’t appreciate that crack you made about me on September 27, 1994, about the “tartish unmarried teenagers having sex with the King of Kings.” ❋ Paul A. Bradley (2002)
But it is the face I’ve always found most eerily disturbing—with its dumb shine of self-absorption, its tripping tartish look of one who is out for all she can get. ❋ Yona Zeldis McDonough (1999)
