35 collocations for nurtures

He was disgusted with his bad luck, but nurtured a desperate hopethe forlorn hope that deceives all gamblersthat he should retrieve his losses on some future occasion, which he eagerly looked for and, one might say, demanded.

That I should ever have nurtured a child to grow up like this!

To use the language of Cicero, he has rendered those studies which nurtured boyhood delightful to age"Athenæum

I leaped lightly from rock to rock, glorying in the eternal freshness and sufficiency of Nature, and in the ineffable tenderness with which she nurtures her mountain darlings in the very fountains of storms.

Civilization, therefore, comes into being with this built-in contradiction: the strong and predatory exploit the weak, but at a certain point protect the weak and nurture the defenseless.

In all those years he had never spoken to her, nurturing his original dislike and rather suspecting that it was she who had so ruined him.

With that book Gustavus Vasa was to protect and nurture the freedom of the land of flowing splendors, while Angelo was transcribing sacred scenes upon the Sistine vault or fixing them in stone.

After that, I nurtured Mr. Scraggs's friendship, for the benefit of humanity and philosophy.

But, like Samuel, they have a far higher reward, in the Davids who are silently strengthened and nurtured by them in Naioth of Ramahin the glories of a new age which shall be ushered in peacefully and happily after they have been laid in the grave.' {0b} That such, my dear Stanley, may be your work and your destiny, is the earnest hope of Yours affectionately, C. KINGSLEY.

"Although the crop of corn thus obtained is valuable, yet when a good and permanent meadow is wanted, and when all the strength of the land is required to nurture the young grass thus robbed and injured, the proprietor is often at considerable expense the second year for manure, which, taking into consideration the trouble and disadvantage attending it, more than counterbalances the profit of the corn crop.

And there was so much of sweetness in the youngster's nature that, unruly though he might be, he never nurtured a grievance.

[Footnote 106: Varro here refers to the great economic change which was coming over Italian husbandry in the last days of the Republic, the disappearance of the small farms, the "septem jugera" which nurtured the early Roman heroes like Cincinnatus and Dentatus, and even the larger, but still comparatively small, farms which Cato describes, and the development of the latifundia given over to grazing.]

" The look that Wilder bestowed, on the same silent out lovely statue, was scarcely less expressive than "he gaze of her who had nurtured the infancy of the Southern Heiress, in innocence and love.

In front the woods melted into a far-off blue haze; below him stretched the city, with its river, its roofs, its towers and domes, the vast, smoky town which had kindled Servien's aspirations at the flaring lights of its theatres and nurtured his feverish longings in the dust of its streets.

Whilst this irreparable loss brings its natural sorrow to every American heart and will be heard far beyond our borders with mournful respect wherever civilization has nurtured men who find in transcendent intellect and faithful, patriotic service a theme for praise, it will visit with still more poignant emotion his colleagues in the Administration, with whom his relations have been so intimate and so cordial.

The Old Testament foretold Christ's coming and founded and nurtured a nation by God to bring Christ into the world.

To those puny objectors against cards, as nurturing the bad passions, she would retort, that man is a gaming animal.

It may be in the garden, where the gardener Has nurtured other strange, outlandish plants.

The old man had nurtured his pride, had applauded it as a mark of proper spirit; and now it was this same pride that had robbed him of the one thing he loved in all the world.

"I should feel glad to have them put under your superintendence; and to have you nurture up a race of expert mineralogists, and become a Werner among them.

Messrs. Stark, Oakley, and Stone were to remain there and nurture the refugees a few hours longer, then carry the small children, and conduct those able to walk to Mule Springs, while Eddy and three companions should hasten on to the cabins across the summit.

Many methods have been devised in France and England of breeding and nurturing the salmon, the trout, and other valuable fish, which are annually becoming more scarce in all civilized countries.

Its population of sixteen thousand, with its three thousand voters, and no pauper class, had carefully nurtured the common school, and was characterized not only by love of order, but by enterprise, intelligence, and public spirit.

And I believed him, Sir; I nurtured the scorpion in my over-sensitive bosom!

And though undoubtedly the greatest single impulse ever given to morality came from Palestine, yet the ground which nurtured the seeds of Christianity was as much Hellenic as Hebrew.

35 collocations for  nurtures