Слово "zest". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

Miss Wilkinson was practically French, and that added zest to a possible adventure.

He still had the Gallic twinkle in his black eyes and the Creole zest for living but, for all his easy laughter, there was something hard about his face which had not been there in the early days of the war.

He became filled with zest. He almost forgot that he was the skipper of an elderly craft which should have been scrapped before he was born.

At times we all seemed like children beside him — at most times, but not always, for there was a bluster and zest in Anthony which the rest of us had shed somewhere in our more leisured adolescence, on the playing field or in the school-room; his vices flourished less in the pursuit of pleasure than in the wish to shock, and in the midst of his polished exhibitions I was often reminded of an urchin I had once seen in Naples, capering derisively with obscene, unambiguous gestures, before a party of English tourists; as he told the tale of his evening at the gaming table, one could see in the roll of his eye just how he had glanced, covertly, over the dwindling pile of chips at his stepfather’s party; while we had been rolling one another in the mud at football and gorging ourselves with crumpets, Anthony had helped oil fading beauties on subtropical sands and had sipped his apéritif in smart little bars, so that the savage we had tamed was still rampant in him.

"I should say, too," continued Zossimov with zest, "that your complete recovery depends solely on yourself.

When he experimented in a small way at raising a few pigeons for market, he found no less zest in calculating in squabs than formerly when he had calculated in millions.

And why the upswing of a riotous mood, the surging zest for folly, that came so swiftly, and went again too soon?

She entered with zest into the pastime of returning calls.