Nourished

Examples

• Either it is blighted in the bud, or has got the smother-fly, or it isn't nourished. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She had rejected these advances; and the time for such exuberant submission, which must be founded on love and nourished by it, was now passed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• His features were peaky and sallow, and his little pointed beard was thready and ill-nourished. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I sit down by the fire, thinking with a blind remorse of all those secret feelings I have nourished since my marriage. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• A certain leanness falls upon houses not sufficiently imbued with life (as if they were nourished upon it), which was very noticeable here. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• We are being pinched by the acts it nourished. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• She looks well-nourished, fair, and fat of flesh. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He had realized that whatever truth a man may reach is reached best by a nourished brain in a healthy body. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He was dressed in black, his clothes sat well on his well-nourished body. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I have nourished a viper in my bosom. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I was nourished with high thoughts of honour and devotion. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.

Checker: Lowell