I felt, in some deep way, unnourished, like I was getting lighter, like I might just blow away. From Wordnik.com. [The Dirty Life] Reference
We are losing the battle to feed the world's unnourished, and if we continue down this line of negative progress, one can imagine dozens of food riots evolving into dozens of armed conflicts. From Wordnik.com. [Rahim Kanani: The Great Convergence of Crises: Can We Handle the 21st Century?] Reference
Any fire burning dependent on a sustenance of grass & timber, being unnourished — from having consumed that sustenance and not being offered any other — is classified simply as 'out' unbound. From Wordnik.com. [A Verb for Nirvana by Thanissaro Bhikkhu] Reference
He is writing this book in exile, identified to all appearance with the Residents Lounge, but unnourished by what keeps the Residents stolidly alive, as insensitive to others as they are to themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Crack-Up] Reference
Hoeing must be constantly attended to, both to prevent the soil becoming exhausted of its nourishment by the rapid growth of weeds, and because when the surface becomes hard and cracked the rain runs through the deep fissures, leaving the surface soil dry and the roots of the plants unnourished. From Wordnik.com. [Gardening for the Million] Reference
Nor was this hope left to wither unnourished in the mind of the high-bred and courageous English girl. From Wordnik.com. [The Mississippi Bubble] Reference
What can you expect from starved minds, human intellects unnourished by all that you find so wholesome?. From Wordnik.com. [A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories] Reference
An unnourished human body responds but weakly, so, vitiated by their fast and labours, their suffering smote them with tenfold cruelty. From Wordnik.com. [Pardners] Reference
And the forest once gone, land and water shrivel, unnourished, leaving a desert amid charred stumps and the white phantoms of dead pines. From Wordnik.com. [The Reckoning] Reference
The implication of this position is that babies born prematurely during abortions would be left alone, unnourished and unmedicated, until they died. From Wordnik.com. [Dvorak Uncensored] Reference
These young people accomplish little toward the solution of this social problem, and bear the brunt of being cultivated into unnourished, oversensitive lives. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes] Reference
It is just as readily possible for a plant to starve in a soil abounding in plant food, if that food is not available, as it would be for you to go unnourished in the midst of soups and tender meats if the latter were frozen solid. From Wordnik.com. [Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use] Reference
But I was most eager to know whether Tolstoy's undertaking to do his daily share of the physical labor of the world, that labor which is "so disproportionate to the unnourished strength" of those by whom it is ordinarily performed, had brought him peace!. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes] Reference
There’s a part of me that’s unfed and unnourished. From Wordnik.com. [Last Words] Reference
The body unnourished, it gives way. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
Hidden, ashamed, unnourished, and denied. From Wordnik.com. [The Englishman and Other Poems] Reference
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