take nourishment
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There is now a little more readiness to take nourishment.
From Time Magazine Archive
See two cases of patients who refused to take nourishment, Class III.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
Her friends have used every device to make her take nourishment.
From Fasting Girls Their Physiology and Pathology by William Alexander Hammond
For insects provided with a biting mouth, which take nourishment from the whole leaf, shoot or fruit, the poisonous washes used are chiefly arsenical.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various
No persuasion could induce him to take nourishment; and it was with extreme difficulty that any food could be forced upon him.
From Observations on Madness and Melancholy Including Practical Remarks on those Diseases together with Cases and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection by John Haslam
