alimentation
Example Sentences
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Life was only a matter of intake and alimentation and reproduction.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
He has never seen death result from the abstinence, for as soon as the condition becomes decidedly unpleasant the patient resumes gradually her normal alimentation.
From Fasting Girls Their Physiology and Pathology by William Alexander Hammond
The mode of administration will be specially referred to under the head of alimentation.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
For this reason many new trees spring up in groups, obtaining their first alimentation from the dissolution of the corpse.
From My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) by I. Stone Sanpietro
In the alimentation of armies bread is the basal element.
From Martyria or Andersonville Prison by Augustus C. Hamlin
