Nourishment

Examples

• Scores of millions were suffering and enfeebled by under-nourishment and misery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Nourishment brought strength. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Other foods, like peas and beans, not only satisfy the appetite, but supply to the body abundant nourishment. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Yet, human fellowship infused some nourishment into the flinty viands, and struck some sparks of cheerfulness out of them. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Have you given him any nourishment, Bedwin? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• As I was in a state of extreme debility, I resolved to sail directly towards the town as a place where I could most easily procure nourishment. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Let it be understood that I am not decrying the great nourishment which a living tradition offers. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• That quantity that is sufficient, the stomach can perfectly concoct and digest, and it sufficeth the due nourishment of the body. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The food we eat is not all available for nourishment, much of it being as useless to us as are smoke and ashes to an engine. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid, to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• He had the kind of character in which prudence is a vice, and good advice the most dangerous nourishment. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• In the field of botany Aristotle had a wide knowledge of natural phenomena, and raised general questions as to mode of propagation, nourishment, relation of plants to animals, etc. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• At the same time he treats the general principles of bot any, the distribution of plants, the nourishment of the plant through leaf as well as root, the sexuality of date palm and terebinth. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Of the vegetables, beans provide the greatest nourishment at the least cost, and to a large extent may be substituted for meat. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Tull's leading idea was the thorough pulverisation of the soil, his doctrines being that plants derived their nourishment from minute particles of soil, hence the need of its pulverisation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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