Since you're trying to "fatten" her up a little, I hope you don't benefit from the same. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
After the wheat harvest the hogs fatten on the acorns. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913] Reference
"We'll fatten him up for Christmas," laughed Bert, joking. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins in the Country] Reference
Sure, the IVs fatten us up for awhile, but then we go home. From Wordnik.com. [Eye Socket Girls] Reference
Much vituals serves for gluttony, to fatten men like swine. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
Fezzan, and there fatten them for the Tripoli slave markets. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
More cattle were put out to graze, to thus fatten up for market. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Ranchers in Death Valley or Diamond X and the Poison Mystery] Reference
"Quite convinced that I haven't hidden her away to fatten for my breakfast?". From Wordnik.com. [Mary Rose of Mifflin] Reference
The grass continues green the year around, and the sheep easily fatten upon it. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
They fatten off the carcasses of others -- yours and mine and their own brothers. From Wordnik.com. [In Her Own Right] Reference
And a reader who lost weight walking insisted, "cars, not carbs, fatten Americans.". From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: A New Food Pyramid] Reference
In other words, stress drains the body of nutrition and it signals the body to fatten up. From Wordnik.com. [Have Faith, Dieters] Reference
The point was to free up the credit, get folks to buy, and thereby fatten portfolios, right?. From Wordnik.com. [The '08 Campaign And the Crash] Reference
A cow with a large, coarse head will seldom fatten readily, or give a large quantity of milk. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
More headlines about his 1996 fund-raising aren't likely to fatten that number any time soon. From Wordnik.com. [A New Bump In Al's Road] Reference
Its either going to go to terrorists or it's going to go to fatten someone's Suisse bank account?. From Wordnik.com. [How To Help Flood Victims In Pakistan] Reference
But I would not be surprised if it's also true that the way we fatten up our animals also fattens us up. From Wordnik.com. [Maria Rodale: If Antibiotics Make Pigs Fat, Maybe They Make People Fat, Too] Reference
They simply laugh arsenic to scorn; indeed, I believe, like the Styrian arsenic eaters, they fatten on it. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
These experts in high-tech slaughter will be accountable to no one, and looking to fatten their bank accounts. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowland: Gone With The Wind] Reference
The just man shall correct me in mercy, and shall reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner fatten my head. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
There is much evidence on both sides of the Atlantic to the effect that acorns fatten hogs if the supply is good. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913] Reference
Now is prime time for wildlife viewing, as critters head to warmer climes, fatten up for winter and look for mates. From Wordnik.com. [Wildlife: Animal Planet] Reference
He bought up all the poor cattle he could and would fatten them and trade them off for three or four poor, jaded animals. From Wordnik.com. [The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail] Reference
They're coming into season, so they're on the small side at the moment but they really fatten up towards the end of summer. From Wordnik.com. [Dermot O'Leary: my favourite cookbook] Reference
His new stepmother would often cook him Western food -- sausages and burgers -- in an unsuccessful attempt to fatten him up. From Wordnik.com. [SCHOOL DAYS WITH A QAEDA SUSPECT] Reference
The winter is mild, so much so that live stock need no shelter, and often fatten on the natural pasture throughout the year. From Wordnik.com. [Wheat Growing in Australia] Reference
Miracle No. 4 was that they were able to fatten up the gimpy butterfly on some rotten pears and honey from the bees they keep. From Wordnik.com. [Saving A Butterfly] Reference
They form no small part of the winter stock of food for the mountaineers, while the refuse nuts are used to fatten the pet pig. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Jessica Simpson, who recently 'shocked her system' with an extreme diet, has one body part she'd like to fatten up: her rear end. From Wordnik.com. [Jessica Simpson: I Wish I Had A Bigger Butt, Smaller Breasts] Reference
"Good-day," said the sheep, "do you know why it is you are so well off, and why it is they fatten you and take such pains with you?". From Wordnik.com. [East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon] Reference
The flowing locks of hair with which this bacon was sometimes adorned has convinced one that a number of farmers fatten their porkers on. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference
To supply his extravagance "my lord" had applied to the money lenders -- those sharks that in London, as elsewhere, fatten on such game. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
South before they had destroyed with axe and fire the splendid oak forests of pioneer days, depended chiefly on mast to fatten their hogs. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. October 7 and 8, 1920] Reference
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