And, if we substitute for the possession of an alimentary cavity, the power of taking solid nutriment into the body and there digesting it, the definition so changed will cover all animals except certain parasites, and the few and exceptional cases of non-parasitic animals which do not feed at all.

Shell-fish, oysters particularly, furnish but little nutriment; and this is the reason why so many of the latter can be eaten without injury to the system.

The determining factor in the application of the term should be the inability of the individual concerned to extract sufficient nutriment from the normal ration, owing to imperfect mastication.

When this is the case, the amount of actual nutriment contained in a peck of the "gourd seed," may not be more than in five, or four, or even three quarts of "flint corn."

Not only did she seek for this spiritual nutriment in the regular ministrations of the sanctuary and in the conference meeting, but she turned also to the Sabbath school with the same fond devotion to Christian truth.

It is a pity that any one, especially children and growing youths, should be deprived of such valuable nutriment as that supplied by oatmeal, and before giving it up, it should be tried steamed and super-cooked.

"And, furthermore, nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another; since what to one race of people, of a certain age, is a wholesome nutriment, may perhaps prove a poison for another.

Hart and red deer hath an evil name: it yields gross nutriment: a strong and great grained meat, next unto a horse.

Science volunteered the explanation, that alcohol supplied a hydro-carbonaceous nutriment similar to that furnished by the cod-liver oil, which, serving as fuel, spared the wasting of the tissues, just in proportion to its own consumption and assimilation.

No one, however crass, could have failed to be touched by this token of a grief so bitter as to refuse luxurious nutriment.

An excellent number, full of mental nutriment, is brought to a close by a symposium of Bishops on the petrol restrictions.

" The taste for broths made of flour was formerly almost universal in France and over the whole of Europe; it is spoken of repeatedly in the histories and annals of monasteries; and we know that the Normans, who made it their principal nutriment, were surnamed bouilleux.

For it should never be forgotten, that healthy digestion requires a large proportion of innutritious matter along with the pure nutriment.

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Good food is not rich food, in the common acceptation of the term; it is such food as furnishes the requisite nutriment with the least fatigue to the digestive powers.

Rhasis and [1360]Magninus discommend all fish, and say, they breed viscosities, slimy nutriment, little and humorous nourishment.

And a wonder it was to see how, as years went round in heavena year in dreams is as a daycontinually its white shoulders put forth buds of wings, but, wanting the perfect angelic nutriment, anon was shorn of its aspiring, and fell flutteringstill caught by angel handsfor ever to put forth shoots, and to fall fluttering, because its birth was not of the unmixed vigour of heaven.

A branch of sea-weed floated past as I looked downsome gracious mermaid's gift, perhaps, extended by her invisible fingers to greet our famishing lipsand I caught it eagerly, dividing the welcome nutriment with the perishing child, now patient from weakness and instinctive consciousness, perhaps, of the entire uselessness of cries and tears.

Besides its use for infants and invalids, it can enter into the composition of any food where milk is ordinarily used, or where additional nutriment is desired.

For this there are two established conditions, that admit of no variation nor neglect: first, a sufficient supply of suitable nutriment, and faithful regard to all the laws of health; and, second, the due appropriation of the vital force that is thus from day to day created.

Owing to its concentrated nutriment this stew should be served sparingly with an abundance of potatoes and green vegetables.

Disputed boundaries with both the other Colonies, and an especial and continuous feud with Massachusetts,unruly spirits, bent upon working out all manner of impracticable theories,the oddest and most original, as well as the most obstinate and indomitable dreamers and enthusiasts, furnished some daily nutriment to dissension with their neighbors or among themselves.

I do not, however, think, or mean to say, that potatoes alone are proper food for any human being: but I feel confident, that four ounces of meat, with as large quantity of good potatoes as would wholly take away the sensation of hunger, would afford, during twenty-four hours, more efficient nutriment than could be derived from bread in any quantity, and might be obtained at much less expense.