Nurtured
[nə:tʃəd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Nurture
Typist: Louis
Examples
- While he was yet undecided, she had quitted England; the news of his marriage reached her, and her hopes, poorly nurtured blossoms, withered and fell. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- What was there in her soul for James Harthouse to destroy, which Thomas Gradgrind had nurtured there in its state of innocence! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- What you have never nurtured in me, you have never nurtured in yourself; but O! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He had been nurtured upon imperialist propaganda. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Not dead in the first hours of her life, as my cruel sister told me, but sternly nurtured by her, after she had renounced me and my name! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Typist: Louis