The people who suck in nutriment from a brain and a conscience like those of Mr. Dodge, too, commodore, must get, in time, to be surprisingly clear-sighted.

The ignobler aspects of life,nutriment of the comic sense,were not ignored.

There may be a little more nutriment in eggs or jelly; but if the former are hard-boiled, the stomach cannot digest them; and fat meat of any kind is digested with great difficulty.

and to tell you that the excessive use of one brain faculty must necessarily cause a lack of nutriment to all the other brain-cells?

Their nutriment for their brief existence is the intellectual atmosphere of the bystanders: or this last, is the fine slime of Nilusthe melior Lutis,whose maternal recipiency is as necessary as the sol pater to their equivocal generation.

Good food is not rich food, in the common acceptation of the term; it is such food as furnishes the requisite nutriment with the least fatigue to the digestive powers.

And, if we substitute for the possession of an alimentary cavity, the power of taking solid nutriment into the body and there digesting it, the definition so changed will cover all animals except certain parasites, and the few and exceptional cases of non-parasitic animals which do not feed at all.

On the plains near the border grass cures as it stands, retaining its nutriment as hay.

Twenty-eight ounces of real nutriment per diem for a man in rough work as a traveller will be all that he requires; if he perform severe tramping, thirty ounces.

Salted fish, like salted meat, is deprived of most of its nutriment during the curing process, and being rendered much more difficult of digestion, possesses very little value as a food.

They do not regard it as the nutriment on which their spiritual life and growth depend.