nutriment

Example Sentences

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I would fain at the moment have become bee or lizard, that I might have found fitting nutriment, permanent shelter here.

From Literature

In his 1894 essay The Extinction of Man, Wells pondered a "new and larger variety" that might "acquire a preferential taste for human nutriment".

From BBC

His prayer was but the seasonable flower of his life, nourished to all its beauty by the habitual nutriment of past years.

From Project Gutenberg

But with the ordinary student who cannot receive or retain his mental nutriment except by a carefully studied mode of presentation, he was not so successful.

From Project Gutenberg

It rests on a basis of granite, covered with a thin coat of earth, through which the rocks occasionally appear, and which affords scanty nutriment to a growth of oak, birch, and mountain ash.

From Project Gutenberg