For indeed were it not for such free entertainers, such nourishers, such encouragers of them, slanderers commonly would die in the womb, or prove still-born, or presently entering into the cold air, would expire, or for want of nourishment soon would starve.

11 The great gods fix ... 12 Nourisher of the luminous heavens, who favorest ... 13 He who has not turned his hands (toward thee ... 14 ....

No rapt enthusiast, or mystic sage, No Asian founder of a faith divine, No bard, or writer of inspired page Hath ever failed to worship at thy shrine, O Nourisher of steadfast self-control, Of noble thoughts, of loftiness of soul!

Macbeth does murder sleep,' the innocent sleep; Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great Nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast.

She was perhaps a masculine nourisher of infancy; yet the upright mark between her black eyebrows, so deep that it seemed made by a hatchet, had never been there before the baby's death; and it was by stubbornly venturing too far among the parishes to seek the child's foster mother, who was said to be in some peril at Petit Cap, that Jeannette got herself taken prisoner.

AlbinusThe mother of growth; the nourisher of the living; the storehouse of life; the effacer of all.

But so much I know, that He is the Creator and Nourisher.

She knew that sleep is the chief nourisher in life's feast, and would not withdraw the sacred dish.