take nourishment

Example Sentences

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There is now a little more readiness to take nourishment.

From Time Magazine Archive

But for him they would have gone to their lives’ end without knowing that pognon meant money; rouspétance, assaulting the police; thune, a five-franc piece; and bouffer, to take nourishment.

From The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol by Ball, Alec

Patients can generally be persuaded at first to take nourishment.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

For many days she lay upon the rude pallet, which was called bed at Urach, and, turning her face to the wall, refused to take nourishment.

From A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hay, Marie, Hon. (Agnes Blanche Marie)

Her friends have used every device to make her take nourishment.

From Fasting Girls Their Physiology and Pathology by Hammond, William Alexander