His senses are too much his guides and his purveyors, and appetite is his steward.

After this time it must obtain its nourishment from the breast alone, and for a week or ten days the appetite of the infant must be the mother's guide, as to the frequency in offering the breast.

The very appetite is body; and when we ourselves are most fools, and crazed, then are we most eager in these pursuits.

His supper was a little later than usual, but his appetite was the better for that.

The appetite, in her case, "grows with what it feeds on;" but such an appetite was not Dryden's.

Considering the situation in which Andy and his friends were, and the appetite of the Irish peasantry for meat in any shape"a bone" being their summum bonumthe risk was very little.

The natural appetites and affections are forms of volition, it is true, but not free products of the mind, for they take their origin in its connection with the body.

sure there is a power In that great name of Virgin, that binds fast All rude uncivil bloods, all appetites That break their confines: then strong Chastity Be thou my strongest guard, for here I'le dwell In opposition against Fate and Hell.

Who curbs his appetite's a fool.

No man, whose appetites are his masters, can perform the duties of his nature with strictness and regularity; he that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

My appetite for marriage ain't no keener than it used to be, so you forget it.

Appetite is his lord, and reason his servant, and religion his drudge.

A ravenous appetite was now Mark's greatest torment, and the coarse food of the ship was rather too heavy for him.

He had reached the age when appetite is only a memory.

"But what about the red eyes of the ducks?" said the two children, whose appetites for stories were simplywell, like those of other boys and girls.

Appetite is another indication of health in the suckling nurse or mother; for it is impossible a woman can feed her child without having a corresponding appetite; and though inordinate craving for food is neither desirable nor necessary, a natural vigour should be experienced at meal-times, and the food taken should be anticipated and enjoyed.

And so far as the mass of readers is concerned, this appetite for fast thinking and reckless generalization is a cheerful token: it is a gainful substitute for that hiding away from the blaze of intellect, that terror of large results in thought, which has harbored in the Vatican since the days of Galileo, and even in Protestant lands may sometimes be found, like the graveyard, in the neighborhood of churches.

Would not the animal appetites be our true and sole end?

Normal sexual appetite is as natural a passion as the hunger for food; it is simply a hunger to perpetuate the species, and without it the world would soon come to an end; but Sapphic passion is a disease which luckily cannot become epidemic because it cannot perpetuate itself, but must always remain a freak.[302] ANACREON AND OTHERS

"I should say not; still, the appetite is the main thing in the woods.

Dick's appetite, furious an hour ago, was now clean gone.

Our appetites, of one or another kind, are excellent spurs to our reason, which might otherwise but feebly set about the great ends of preserving and continuing the species.

Not wealth, not power, not the appetites were the true source of pleasure, but the peace and harmony of the soul.

Any artificial appetite begun is the beginning of distemper, disease, and a general disturbance of natural proportion.