Which preposition to use with nourishment

of Occurrences 48%

These dear serpents, my friends and playfellows, this henbane and antimony, the nourishment of my health and vigourthat any one should write of these as pernicious, deadly, and fatal to existence!

from Occurrences 34%

Generally, every fruit, on ripening, and just before it falls, when it commences a more independent and individual existence, requiring less nourishment from any source, and that not so much from the earth through its stem as from the sun and air, acquires a bright tint.

for Occurrences 29%

On this subject Goethe writes with a humorous simplicity: "This singularly intellectual poet has extracted from my Faust the strongest nourishment for his hypochondria; but he has made use of the impelling principles for his own purposes....

in Occurrences 23%

Apart from the question of drinking raised again by the "hootch," it is perhaps possible that, having so little else to do, they were ready to eat the more; it is also true that, busy or idle, the human body requires more nourishment in the North than it does in the South.

to Occurrences 15%

They that soared so loftily, how contentedly they return to dust again, and are laid low, resigned to lie and decay at the foot of the tree, and afford nourishment to new generations of their kind, as well as to flutter on high!

by Occurrences 6%

No blood-vessels pass into these tissues; the cells derive their nourishment by the imbibition of the plasma of the blood exuded into the subjacent tissue.

as Occurrences 6%

Fish forms an important and a most nutritious article of diet, as it contains almost as much nourishment as butcher's meat.

on Occurrences 4%

The dull-hued bushes that somehow found nourishment on the yellow mound now concealed his figure from the boatman; the same hardy vegetation afforded him a shelter from the too inquisitive gaze of any persons on the yacht when he had gained the summit of the sands.

at Occurrences 3%

I am sure that no town-bred, or inland-born subjects, can feel their true and natural nourishment at these sea-places.

during Occurrences 3%

Deprived of their daily nourishment during the prolonged absence of their master, the goats have made a passage through the inclosure, by gnawing the still green foliage which imprisoned them; the hurricane of the night has overthrown the rest.

than Occurrences 3%

These, indeed, may be considered as the very creators of the soil: they thrive in the coldest and most sterile regions, many of them commencing the operations of nature in the growth of vegetables on the barest rocks, and receiving no other nourishment than such as may be supplied to them by the simple elements of air and rain.

with Occurrences 2%

From five to eight weeks is always a critical period in the puppyhood of a Griffon, and it is necessary to supersede their maternal nourishment with extreme caution.

into Occurrences 2%

His ill-nature is like an ill stomach, that turns its nourishment into bad humours.

without Occurrences 1%

Plasmon has a world-wide reputation, and is extensively used both in medical treatment and in the domestic menage wherever it is desirable to administer nourishment without taxing the digestive organs.

like Occurrences 1%

And science, which proclaimed that matter was indestructible and that the mind was matter and that the brain needed nourishment like any other musclescience would have to hang the head and wonder!

out Occurrences 1%

Neither would it suit the fastidious taste of those who, not being able to discern the difference between juice and blood, cook all flavour and nourishment out of their meats, and luxuriate on the chippy substance which is left.

through Occurrences 1%

He had come to nail up a vacate notice, and he announced simply but firmly that Miss Snow's Wednesday evenings were to be considered open time thereafter, and if Mitchell elected to horn his way in it was a hundred-to-one shot that he'd have to give up solid foods for a month or more and take his nourishment through a glass tube.

after Occurrences 1%

" "Yessir, but no hofficers are allowed to obtain nourishment after 10 p.m. under Defence of the Realm Act, footnote (a) to para.

Which preposition to use with  nourishment