Which preposition to use with nourishing

in Occurrences 30%

Thy spirit's sister, the lorn nightingale, Mourns not her mate with such melodious pain; Not so the eagle, who like thee could scale Heaven, and could nourish in the sun's domain

with Occurrences 19%

In the symbolism of these nations the sacred tree sometimes figures as a type of the universe, and represents the whole system of created things, but more frequently as a tree of life, by whose fruit the votaries of the gods (and in some cases the gods themselves) are nourished with divine strength, and are prepared for the joys of immortality.

on Occurrences 15%

Besides the common honey-bee there are many other species herefine mossy, burly fellows, who were nourished on the mountains thousands of sunny seasons before the advent of the domestic species.

at Occurrences 10%

This implies that the infant should never be put into the bath after having been freely nourished at the breast.

from Occurrences 6%

THE WOMAN OF A CONSUMPTIVE AND STRUMOUS CONSTITUTION OUGHT NOT.In the infant born of such a parent there will be a constitutional predisposition to the same disease; and, if it is nourished from her system, this hereditary predisposition will be confirmed.

than Occurrences 6%

Fish, as we have explained, is less nourishing than meat; for it is lighter in weight, size for size, and contains no ozmazome (see No. 100).

by Occurrences 4%

They vse also certaine litle furnaces made of purpose, vnder the which they make fire, putting into the furnace foure or fiue hundred egges, and the said fire they nourish by litle and litle, vntill the chickens be hatched, which after they be hatched, and become somewhat bigger, they sell them by measure in such sort, as we sell and measure nuts and chestnuts and such like.

of Occurrences 4%

When the Queen Igraine grew daily nearer the time when the child Arthur should be born, Merlin, by whose counsel the king had taken her to wife, came to the king and said: "Sir, you must provide for the nourishing of your child.

for Occurrences 3%

They are also particularly nourishing for sick persons.

among Occurrences 3%

Thou wert nourished among wild beasts, and therefore thou mayst not say but wild language, and words unknown to men.

about Occurrences 2%

For if I love a lake known by the name of the man who discovered it, which endears itself by reason of the close-locked pines it nourishes about its borders, you may look in my account to find it so described.

as Occurrences 2%

Therefore, should one eat many of the potatoes nourished as above, we should expect to see him gradually turning into a Bronze Statuea fate which, unless he were particularly Greeky and nice-looking, we should wish to anticipate, if possible, in the interests of art.

into Occurrences 2%

He ordered two planks to be brought, and Jemshíd being fastened down between them, his body was divided the whole length with a saw, making two figures of Jemshíd out of one! Why do mankind upon this fleeting world Place their affections, wickedness alone Is nourished into freshness; sounds of death, too, Are ever on the gale to wear out life.

for Occurrences 2%

Before these three rode away, I said, aside to Jim, who was one of them, 'Don't bother about any whiskey; branch water is plenty nourishing for the wounded.

through Occurrences 1%

The moisture-laden clouds rolling up from the ocean gather and condense against the western flanks of the mountains, where an abundant rainfall has nourished through ages past an unbroken and evergreen forest.

under Occurrences 1%

They are formed for a different element, and could not nourish under water, especially salt water.

during Occurrences 1%

I had been nourished during my delirium; for the fierceness of my sufferings were assuaged, and I was comparatively strong.

within Occurrences 1%

All this kept him silent and reserved, and he nourished within his mind many thoughts and hopes that no one knew of or suspected.

without Occurrences 1%

Their soil and climate are appropriate to white labor; they can live and nourish without African slavery; but the Cotton States cannot.

as Occurrences 1%

True, the plantain is by no means as nourishing as wheat: which reduces the actual difference between their value per acre to twenty-five to one.

to Occurrences 1%

"It is all food, Anna, edible and nourishing to different mouths and stomachs.

in Occurrences 1%

It is constantly asserted in a vague way that the Sierra was vastly wetter than now, and that the increasing drought will of itself extinguish Sequoia, leaving its ground to other trees supposed capable of nourishing in a drier climate.

beyond Occurrences 1%

During a period fraught with difficulties and marked by very extraordinary events the United States have nourished beyond example.

on Occurrences 1%

" The soup was of vegetables, for which the Fabiani family had not paid, but it was none the less nourishing on that account.

against Occurrences 1%

Now that he had vanquished all forces under arms he poured out upon the unarmed all the wrath he had nourished against them during the previous period.

Which preposition to use with  nourishing