A few types of molecules get sensed by receptors on the tongue. Protons coming off of acids ping receptors for sour. Sugars get received as sweet. Bitter, salty, and the proteinaceous flavor umami all set off their own neural cascades.

Details of a bottle fight in El Morocco were cabled all over the world.

to hold a council of war

This slight way of treating both his book and his ancestors nettled little Puddock – who never himself took a liberty, and expected similar treatment – but he knew Sturk, the nature of the beast, and he only bowed grandly […]