take nourishment
Example Sentences
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There is now a little more readiness to take nourishment.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two days and nights I had lain in a heavy sleep; now they had by force to prevent me from rising from bed, and had to compel me to take nourishment and submit to nursing.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various
But for him they would have gone to their lives’ end without knowing that pognon meant money; rouspétance, assaulting the police; thune, a five-franc piece; and bouffer, to take nourishment.
From The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol by Ball, Alec
Give my compliments to the worthy gentleman, who will not permit his child to eat from the broad dish, because his own mouth is formed to take nourishment from the narrow bottle.
From The Children of the World by Heyse, Paul
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
