Do we say healthful or healthy

healthful 590 occurrences

"About as healthful as prussic acid, those volcanic gases," explained the surgeon.

By casting the refuse of their carrion into these waters, the New York Rendering Company have rendered foul and noxious the once healthful atmosphere of our aquarian outlets, rendering themselves a nuisance, at the same time.

It comes in a round pasteboard box nowadays, you know, Rudolph, with French mendacities all over the topand my eyebrows come in a fat crayon, and the healthful glow of my lips comes in a little porcelain tub.

<Hale, heal, hol, whole> (sound): (1) hale, hallow, Hallowe'en, heal, health, unhealthy, healthful, holy, holiday, hollyhock, whole, wholesome; (2) halibut, halidom.

When he had last seen him, he was vigorous-looking, erect, and healthful; now he was bent and emaciated to a frightful extent.

At length Lucy joined in it, when I thought it wisest to leave the old tar in the hands of one so well fitted by nature and education to be the instrument, under the providence of God, of bringing him to a more healthful view of his condition.

This I mean; not because it is told me, were my informants all the schools of Rabbins or a hierarchy of angels; but because I have looked into it, tried it, found it healthful and sufficient, and thus know that it will stand the stress of life.

They show the belt of coast occupied by Liberia to be merely the entrance to a high and healthful interior of great fertility and unlimited resources, over which the Republic has power to expand indefinitely.

The ruddy cheek, red lips, and white teeth, set off a countenance which had gained by exposure to the weather, a healthful and hardy rather than a rugged hue.

" "O most sweet Lord Jesu, transfix the affections of my inmost soul with that most joyous and most healthful wound of Thy love, with true, serene, most holy, apostolic charity; that my soul may ever languish and melt with entire love and longing for Thee.

Besides, I was actually pining for some healthful occupation: I was tired of playing at living.

"] MY BIRTH PLACE Where "old Blue" mountain's healthful breeze Swept o'er the green hill-side, My little fragile bark was launched On life's uncertain tide.

Come, range New England's verdant hills, And breathe our healthful air, 'Twill tinge thy cheeks with brighter bloom, And make thee still more fair.

It can but exert a healthful influence over the mind, to inhale such exquisite odors, and gaze upon such beautiful colors and delicate tints, combined with gracefulness and elegance of form.

And soon, I assure you, your health will be good; Leave your warm stifling beds, your soft cushioned chair, Run ten miles a day in the cool healthful air.

Moderate training is simply a rational and healthful life.

Whatever Titian chose to touch, whether it was classical mythology or portrait, history or sacred subject, he treated in this large and healthful style.

The first hours of night, therefore, were those in which our solitary man chose to take most of his exercise, previously to his complete restoration to strength; and then it was that he naturally fell into an obvious and healthful communion with the stars.

Never did feverish tongue enjoy the cooling and healthful draught, more than Mark rejoiced in this change.

Mark well knew the value of this tree, which was of use in a variety of ways, in addition to the delicious and healthful fruit it bears; delicious and healthful when eaten shortly after it is separated from the tree.

Mark well knew the value of this tree, which was of use in a variety of ways, in addition to the delicious and healthful fruit it bears; delicious and healthful when eaten shortly after it is separated from the tree.

Gradually Panton felt himself slipping off into that pleasant condition which immediately precedes a dreamless, healthful sleep.

Unfortunately, one is never sure of arriving at such a result, and no one can say, à priori, whether the forced cultivation of a given malarious tract will render it healthful.

To us it is a matter of unmixed rejoicing that this latter necessary of healthful life is independent of theological ink, and that its evolution is insured in the interaction of human souls as certainly as the evolution of science or art, with which, indeed, it is but a twin ray, melting into them with undefinable limits.

DIEHL, HAROLD S. Textbook of healthful living.

healthy 2665 occurrences

"A nice healthy man's room, without too much furniture, and with plenty of books.

The pallor of her cheeks, which might have seemed like an inheritance of fragility, was counteracted by the softness of her skin and the healthy colour of her curving lips.

" "He had not the appearance," Wingate observed, "of being a healthy man.

Living much in the open air, and fond of the pleasures of the chase, they were generally healthy and robust.

And that is the case with all healthy-minded people.

But the natural decline of the physical powers leaves the healthy spirit untouched with age, should indeed leave it strengthenedglowing not with passion but with a steadier fire.

These things are the symptom of a diseased minda mind that has lost the healthy love of truth and nature, and has taken refuge in falsities and shams.

I should know that he did not allow it to get the whip hand of him, that he kept sane and healthy by running out to play, as it were, occasionally.

It is a healthy, open-air occupation that keeps the body exercised and the mind fallow.

Adj. healthy, healthful; in health &c n.; well, sound, hearty, hale, fresh, green, whole; florid, flush, hardy, stanch, staunch, brave, robust, vigorous, weatherproof. unscathed, uninjured, unmaimed^, unmarred, untainted; sound of wind and limb, safe and sound.

Adj. salubrious, salutary, salutiferous^; wholesome; healthy, healthful; sanitary, prophYlactic, benign, bracing, tonic, invigorating, good for, nutritious; hygeian^, hygienic.

Such a course of action would be like to a healthy man refusing substantial food, because when he was once weak in stomach his physician ordered him a severe diet.

And if a people under Providence are endowed with institutions that have given free play and healthy growth to the most useful and admirable powers of man, it is not for that people to boast of its race as better than other races, and thank God, like the Pharisee, that it is not as other men.

What grateful memories of tender childhood, what healthy durable associations, what sound habits of life can grow among these unwholesome and insecure shelters?

It means in the first place that each year brings a larger proportion of the nation within reach of the higher rate of mortality, by taking them from more healthy and placing them under less healthy conditions.

It means in the first place that each year brings a larger proportion of the nation within reach of the higher rate of mortality, by taking them from more healthy and placing them under less healthy conditions.

It is the young, healthy, vigorous blood of the country which is exposed to these unhealthy conditions.

"The climate, I believe, is healthy," said Mrs. Micawber.

Whether we look through the rose-coloured glass or the indigo, we are equally far from the hues which the healthy human eye beholds in heaven above and earth below.

One can see that if Touchwood were to become a public man and take to frequent speaking on platforms or from his seat in the House, it would hardly be possible for him to maintain much integrity of opinion, or to avoid courses of partisanship which a healthy public sentiment would stamp with discredit.

For it is of the nature of such temper to interrupt the formation of healthy mental habits, which depend on a growing harmony between perception, conviction, and impulse.

It is good and healthy, it makes for rest and strength, to plunge the bare, stiff, cold ego into the collective mind, as into a bath of confidence and fraternal gifts.

It is but a row of grinning red healthy faces over the coping and a shower of bread and biscuit.

His death, they added, was indeed like the stupor of a drunkard, who, after his lethargy has passed, rises healthy and well.

Of the hundreds whom we past, there were very few who were not well dressed, healthy, and apparently in good spirits.

Do we say   healthful   or  healthy