take nourishment
Example Sentences
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There is now a little more readiness to take nourishment.
From Time Magazine Archive
Messager was obliged to carry up milk in bottles, with a loaf of bread, and say that he wanted to lunch with him, in order to get Charpentier to take nourishment.
From Interpreters by Van Vechten, Carl
You must take nourishment now, and talk no more.
From The Flutter of the Goldleaf; and Other Plays by Dargan, Olive Tilford
See two cases of patients who refused to take nourishment, Class III.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
Don’t worry over me, dear friend; I’m still able to sit up and take nourishment.
From Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories by Hanshew, Thomas W.
