They supposed that the air contained a principle proper for the support and nourishment of life, which they called pabulum vitae. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease] Reference
An architect of the White House's earlier policies dismissed Mr. Bellinger's remarks as "pabulum" from a State Department that is too solicitous of international institutions. From Wordnik.com. [U.S. Accepts International Criminal Court] Reference
That was a lot of writing to respond to such pabulum. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary: I Might Take Fight Over Florida And Michigan To Convention!] Reference
It finds its pabulum in the mass it ferments by its vegetative processes. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888] Reference
And it's not the unusual sort of canned pabulum in a political commercial. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 9, 2008] Reference
As a rule, the pabulum in which the saprophytic organisms are provided and. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888] Reference
"I want Romeo and Juliet to come alive for us, not to be prechewed pabulum.". From Wordnik.com. [Jennifer Loviglio: The Bard, But Not As Hard] Reference
Coal, its dusky pabulum, was also practically a stranger on the upper Thames. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference
And again, for the most part, Lisa Murkowski's ads were just, you know, pabulum. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Issues Of The 2010 Elections] Reference
Does the absorber of mental pabulum from books argue wrongly from similar premises?. From Wordnik.com. [A Librarian's Open Shelf] Reference
They used that as the spiritual pabulum which nourished their English corporate life. From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
The prison had no facilities for administering spiritual pabulum to a British prisoner. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
"Well," said I, "I have some pabulum here; let's go to the mess and give them a snack.". From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson] Reference
It offered no pabulum to the wrongdoer in the form of compensation for stolen humanity. From Wordnik.com. [The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights] Reference
The resultant interview, not surprisingly, had been a steady stream of pabulum and clichés. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times's Lonely War] Reference
With the flagellum comes motion, and with that abundant pabulum, and therefore rapid growth. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885] Reference
And if we don't deliver or if we deliver some pabulum they're going to spit it out and with us it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2006] Reference
Is it necessary, however, or indeed wise, that any man's mental pabulum should consist entirely of novels?. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
Last but not least,. what's with this "we outta have this driven by the market not by government policy" pabulum?. From Wordnik.com. [Video: Webb and Warner Speak at Pro-Coal Industry Rally] Reference
If you want everything you care about to be turned into pabulum by self - serving yahoos, follow the 2006 elections. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 12, 2006] Reference
Still more would it be of interest to discover what, if any, changes were wrought in the pabulum, or fluid generally. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888] Reference
Nothing but pabulum being pushed by partisan democrats trying to rationalize doing precisely what they say they're not going. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2008] Reference
"You need to get out more," she grumbled, then added something about scientists having been fed turpentine with their pabulum. From Wordnik.com. [Fault Line]
We come now to fiction, which the experience of all libraries shows is the favorite pabulum of about three readers out of four. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
But our ingenious professor of Jena dispenses with both the hare and the curry, in serving up his pabulum to the "protamoebæ.". From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
For such "The Duchess" furnishes good mental pabulum, and Miss Corelli provides flights into the loftier regions of philosophy. From Wordnik.com. [A Librarian's Open Shelf] Reference
But the spirit is generally unawakened and can only grow with the pabulum of spiritual influence, in harmony with spiritual law. From Wordnik.com. [Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul] Reference
Meanwhile, the daily papers furnished pabulum for the general curiosity and kept the interest as to the outcome on the increase. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
These conditions were believed to be a certain elevation of the temperature, the presence of moisture and suitable; organic pabulum. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of Arguments] Reference
CONWAY: ... they're going to become more specific and solution oriented and take the pabulum and the grandiose speech, you know, down to specifics. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 4, 2008] Reference
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