The salted roe (fish eggs) of sturgeon Caviar contains twice the nutriment of almost all meats. From LearnThat.org.
This does not, of course, mean 10 per cent. of the total weight nor 10 per cent. of the total bulk, but 10 per cent. of the total nutriment, that is, 10 calories of protein out of every 100 calories of food. From Wordnik.com. [How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science] Reference
Such persons stand in no need of the more abundant and more substantial nutriment which is essential to those who are daily engaged in occupations exacting much muscular labour. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines] Reference
In my view, a more reasonable, alternative view is that the Greek and subsequent Latin forms are from Hittite kalaktar meaning more generally 'nutriment'2 and have nothing to do with PIE at all. From Wordnik.com. [Indo-European (*)*ǵalak- 'milk'] Reference
In a state of nature each plant is confined to that particular station and kind of nutriment which it can seize from the other plants by which it is surrounded. From Wordnik.com. [The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.] Reference
Am I the nutriment of vice or the sustenance of virtue?. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
The germs of worldly epidemics find no nutriment in him. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
This lack of flavor seriously impairs their value in nutriment. From Wordnik.com. [Armour's Monthly Cook Book, Volume 2, No. 12, October 1913 A Monthly Magazine of Household Interest] Reference
Variety of nutriment is absolutely essential, even to physical health. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
And what nutriment the Good Shepherd provides for the home-coming sheep!. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Clear meat broth contains little nutriment -- less than unfiltered broth. From Wordnik.com. [Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value] Reference
May those sentiments find ample nutriment within these precincts evermore. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
Such drinks are of value when only a small quantity of nutriment can be taken. From Wordnik.com. [The Suffrage Cook Book] Reference
When a large amount of nutriment is required the albuminized drinks are valuable. From Wordnik.com. [The Suffrage Cook Book] Reference
More nutriment is consumed than can be taken up by the system, which causes an irritation. From Wordnik.com. [The Veterinarian] Reference
"The food is scientifically proportioned to give the greatest possible nutriment," Mme. C---- said. From Wordnik.com. [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference
There is as much nutriment in a pound of wheat flour as in 3½ quarts of oysters, which weigh 7 pounds. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896] Reference
That great hotbed of disatisfaction, Irish popular feeling, supplied stimulating nutriment to the new party. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
The tail does not drop off, the substance in it is absorbed into the body of the growing toad to serve as nutriment. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
But the discipline of the change is only to bring me into new pastures, that I may gain fresh nutriment for my soul. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
It will not invigorate your body or mind; for chemistry shows, that alcohol contains no more nutriment than fire or lightning. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
This creative consciousness still pushes on, giving to matter its own life, and drawing from matter its nutriment and strength. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
There is the hand pouring oil into a lamp of pure Etruscan shape, symbolical of the nutriment supplied to the intellectual flame. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
Then, perchance, a cocoanut drifts upon the formation and, finding sufficient nutriment, sends down a root and begins its growth. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
These bones she had often taken and boiled again and again for the purpose of extracting the least remaining portion of nutriment. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
It doubtless retards the decomposition of the substances which supply their nutriment, and it reduces the temperature of the soil. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
The upper layer of the soil must therefore be free from weeds, finely pulverized and stocked with a readily-available supply of nutriment. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
One day they discovered that they had neither money nor anything to eat, and About started out to scare up some nutriment for the inner man. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference
While speaking about too much food, it may be pointed out that the function of appetite is to inform us that the body is in need of nutriment. From Wordnik.com. [No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes] Reference
There can be no doubt that the nature of the plant and the particular mode in which it gathers its nutriment, have a most important influence. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Agricultural Chemistry] Reference
The nut, inside its germ-proof shell, is solid nutriment of the purest sort, the very quintessence of nutrient value, sunlight in cold storage. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-First Annual Meeting Cedar Rapids, Iowa, September 17, 18, and 19, 1930] Reference
On the contrary, the rock oyster does not appear to need the diatomatic nutriment to sny extent, and is fed chiefly by larval forms of marine life. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
This hurrying blood current not only carries nutriment to these organs, but carries away their accumulations of effete material to the excretory glands. From Wordnik.com. [The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male] Reference
In the latter instances, all afflux of nutriment and heat being prevented by the ligature, we see the testes and large fleshy tumours dwindle, die, and finally fall off. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Though he read everything he could lay his hands on, yet there are five books to be mentioned specifically, because from childhood they furnished his intellectual nutriment. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
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