51 Verbs to Use for the Word digestion

"But for you I should be disturbing that hawk's digestion at the present moment, instead of which, here I am, a respectable fairy once more, and my late wife (though I ought not to call her that, for goodness knows she was early enough hustling me out of my nest before daybreak, with the unpleasant proverb about the early bird catching the worm!)I suppose I should say my early wifeis at this juncture a widow.

Then there is reason to believe that fat helps the digestion of other foods, for it is found that the body is better nourished when the fats are used as food.

It aids digestion and induces sleep, and sleep you know is a gift of the gods.

They give flavor and relish to food, excite appetite and promote digestion.

When bread is taken out of the oven, it is full of moisture; the starch is held together in masses, and the bread, instead of being crusted so as to expose each grain of starch to the saliva, actually prevents their digestion by being formed by the teeth into leathery poreless masses, which lie on the stomach like so many bullets.

The methods by which intoxicating drinks impair and often ruin digestion are various.

The effects of the excessive employment of nervous stimulants in shaking the nerves themselves, and in impairing digestion, are too familiar to need description.

"They spoil one's digestion.

It is the indigestibility of fat, and this property of delaying the digestion of other foods, chiefly that render pastry and cakes so deleterious to health.

For the body of her owne health, requireth not to be so shaken, tossed, and as a man woulde say, hunted after meate, for feare to hinder digestion, as the Phisition placed it amonge their rules of diet.

He cannot keep still and let other people enjoy their sound digestion and healthful sleep.

The boute-hors, which was served when the guests, after having washed their hands and said grace, had passed into the drawing-room, consisted of spices, different from those which had appeared at dessert, and intended specially to assist the digestion; and for this object they must have been much needed, considering that a repast lasted several hours.

If a man is really an artist he will remember what is necessary, forget what is useless; but if he takes notes he will interrupt his artistic digestion, and the result will be a lot of little touches, inchoate and wanting in the elegant rhythm of the synthesis.

I always aim at a man's toes if I want to stimulate his digestion.

The wine of Lombardy is light and not ill flavored; it is far weaker than any wine I know of, but it has an excellent quality, that of facilitating digestion.

I'm glad to ha' heern you've got sech a good digestion," says she, hunting up a piece of paper to light her pipe.

Remarkably complete digestion and absorption follow.

There are times when the mind, like the body, had best feed, gorge if you will, and leave the digestion of its food to the unconscious alchemy of nature.

The skinne is full of soft doune, like to a fine furre, which they vse to occupie when they haue euill stomocks, and it maketh good digestion.

That none of the party felt any after ill effects speaks well for the purity of the wares of the mammoth advertiseror the Baluch digestion!

These teeth are little bones set in order in the two jaw-bones, which have a spring to open and another to shut in such a manner that the teeth grind, like a mill, the aliments in order to prepare their digestion.

It's because he keeps his eye closed and buried in the sand that the ostrich has preserved his famous digestion!

"Thus then, the second thoughts being usually the best, as receiving the maturest digestion from judgement; and the last and most mature product of those thoughts, being artfull and laboured Verse: it may well be inferred, that Verse is a great help to a luxuriant Fancy.

There is a succession of them on the banks of the river the whole length of the city, interspersed with hospices for the entertainment of pilgrims, and palaces of rich Hindus, who go there occasionally to wash away their sins, just as the high livers of London go to Homburg and Carlsbad to restore their digestions.

And good sick cookery will save the digestion half its work.

51 Verbs to Use for the Word  digestion