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
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
"Aubrey," she said—it was news to Roland that Mr. Petheram's name was Aubrey—"is very much knocked about, but he is conscious and sitting up and taking nourishment."
From A Man of Means by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
She was born in Ireland, though she had little recollection of the fact, having arrived at the port of New York while taking nourishment at the maternal fount.
From The Shadow by Mary White Ovington
