taking nourishment
Example Sentences
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While the condition condemned victims to a lifetime of drooling and taking nourishment through an implanted tube into the stomach, his paper in the journal Surgery was virtually ignored in America.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2016
His husband, Jeff Woodman, said that Mr. Bernhardt had been in declining health and had stopped taking nourishment after breaking his arm in a recent fall.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2015
Although he was not taking nourishment he was gently caressing the bruised part of his anatomy, but otherwise betraying no interest in things.
From The Wireless Officer by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
After taking nourishment he fell into a quiet sleep about thirty-five minutes before his death, and while asleep his pulse ran to 120 and was somewhat more feeble.
From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 1: James A. Garfield by James D. (James Daniel) Richardson
Then it commences to undergo remarkable changes and finally becomes a mere sac-like organ with a number of long slender root-like processes penetrating and taking nourishment from the body of the unfortunate crab-host.
From Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases by Rennie Wilbur Doane
