As a fair white lily grows up out of the bed of meadow muck, and without note or comment, rejects all in the soil that is alien from her being, and goes on fashioning her own silver cup side by side with weeds that are drawing coarser nutriment from the soil, so we often see a refined and gentle nature by some singular internal force unfolding itself by its own laws, and confirming itself in its own beliefs, as wholly different from all that surrounds it as is the lily from the rag-weed. ❋ Unknown (1869)
They to whom Heaven declares its purpose must merit its communication by mortifying the senses; they have that within which requires not the superfluity of earthly nutriment, which is necessary to those who are without the sphere of the Vision. ❋ Unknown (2008)
For it is necessary that animals shall get nutriment from without; and, again, that this shall be converted into the ultimate nutriment, which is then distributed as sustenance to the various parts; this ultimate nutriment being, in sanguineous animals, what we call blood, and having, in bloodless animals, no definite name. ❋ Unknown (2002)
That is why taste also is a sort of touch; it is relative to nutriment, which is just tangible body; whereas sound, colour, and odour are innutritious, and further neither grow nor decay. ❋ Unknown (2002)
This does not, of course, mean 10 per cent. of the total weight nor 10 per cent. of the total bulk, but 10 per cent. of the total nutriment, that is, 10 calories of protein out of every 100 calories of food. ❋ Eugene Lyman Fisk (1907)
Croesus's kitchen-maid is part of him, bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh, for she eats what comes from his table, and, being fed of one flesh, are they not brother and sister to one another in virtue of community of nutriment, which is but a thinly veiled travesty of descent? ❋ Harold Begbie (1900)
Oats, oat-and-hay tea, milk, eggs -- anything which the stomach or rectum can be coaxed to take care of -- must be employed to give the nutriment, which is the only thing that will permanently strengthen the tissues; they must be strengthened in order to keep the capillaries at their proper caliber. ❋ Charles B. Michener (1877)
In my view, a more reasonable, alternative view is that the Greek and subsequent Latin forms are from Hittite kalaktar meaning more generally 'nutriment'2 and have nothing to do with PIE at all. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Each of the other parts is formed out of the nutriment, those most honourable and participating in the sovereign principle from the nutriment which is first and purest and fully concocted, those which are only necessary for the sake of the former parts from the inferior nutriment and the residues left over from the other. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Nails, hair, hoofs, horns, beaks, the spurs of cocks, and any other similar parts, are on the contrary formed from the nutriment which is taken later and only concerned with growth, in other words that which is derived from the mother, or from the outer world after birth. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Such persons stand in no need of the more abundant and more substantial nutriment which is essential to those who are daily engaged in occupations exacting much muscular labour. ❋ John O'Rourke (N/A)
Croesus's kitchen-maid is part of him, bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh, for she eats what comes from his table and, being fed of one flesh, are they not brother and sister to one another in virtue of community of nutriment which is but a thinly veiled travesty of descent? ❋ Samuel Butler (1868)
In a state of nature each plant is confined to that particular station and kind of nutriment which it can seize from the other plants by which it is surrounded. ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)
The natural food of the dog is flesh, and it is found that those in a wild state prefer it to every other kind of nutriment, but as raw meat engenders ferocity, it should not be given too freely, especially to house-dogs and such as are not actively exercised. ❋ Edward Jesse (1824)
For just as women's breasts are not receptacles full of milk ready to flow, but change the nutriment which is in them into milk, and so supply it, so also the cold places which are full of springs have no water concealed in them, nor any such reservoirs as would be needed to send out deep rivers from any fixed point, but by their pressure they convert the air and vapour which is in them into water. ❋ 46-120? Plutarch (1839)
In his diary, which is in the centre's collection, the railway engineer John Rowland described how his party ate fern to survive There is no nutriment in the diet. ❋ Stephen Bates (2010)
The challenge of a new book, or put it the impertinence of a new book, is that it asks attention, quite often, in place of work that would afford considerably more nutriment or soulagement to the qualified or specialist reader. ❋ Raymond Gibson (2011)
If nutriment was not digested properly or if excess matter was not excreted in an efficient manner, the vessels of the body would become too full, creating the condition of plethora, or an overabundance of blood. ❋ Unknown (2008)
