Fed

Examples

• It would have been very like a Christian, and a marvellously good Christian too, if Oliver had prayed for the people who fed and took care of _him_. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• A large number of baths can be run by this apparatus by connecting them with a bath fed by it. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• I know that I lounged about the streets, insufficiently and unsatisfactorily fed. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• In this way the grain that was to be cut would be properly fed to the knife. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I chiefly fed mine eyes with beholding the destroyers of tyrants and usurpers, and the restorers of liberty to oppressed and injured nations. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• I suppose animals kept in cages, and so scantily fed as to be always upon the verge of famine, await their food as I awaited a letter. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• If a man has just eaten, or if he is well fed generally and the opportunity to hear music is a rarity, he will probably prefer the music to eating. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• A spring within the magazine fed the cartridges up into alignment with the barrel. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Dairy weights of ensilage fed to the stock were not taken. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• He loves the idol he serves, and prays day and night that his frenzy may be fed, and that the Ox-eyed may smile on her votary. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The scales are set according to the chemist's weighing orders, and the material is fed into the scales from the hoppers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I think I will play the old soldier, and be fed on the fat of the land like him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Current was fed from a dynamo to the motor through a central third rail, the two outer rails being joined together as the negative or return circuit. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Perdita was sensible of the failing of the tide that fed her life. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• They had lost brains and speech, and they were fed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Typed by Alphonse