They were required by court order to aliment the abandoned family. From LearnThat.org. [http://www.bartleby.com/61/12/A0201200.html]
Its equilibrium seems never to be disturbed, or, if disturbed at all, it is immediately restored by the mutual exchange of poison for aliment, which is constantly going on between the animal and vegetable worlds. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes] Reference
Added to this, the aliment which is taken at dinner time so exhausts the animal warmth, as to leave the whole body in a state of refrigeration. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves] Reference
The 'aliment' formerly granted to them, and unpaid when they seized the Bass, was to be handed over to them. From Wordnik.com. [The Red True Story Book] Reference
In Scotland, the property of the wife is protected; rules are made for her "aliment" or support; and her clothes and "paraphernalia" cannot be seized by her husband. From Wordnik.com. [A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cransworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill] Reference
But no, his strength is feeding itself on other aliment. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
He died like a lamp which ceases to burn for want of aliment. From Wordnik.com. [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference
It is like daily bread, an aliment always new, always wished for. From Wordnik.com. [Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864] Reference
Reason is the torch of friendship, judgment its guide, tenderness its aliment. From Wordnik.com. [For Auld Lang Syne] Reference
Thus is it found that no medicine can be safely taken as a constant and general aliment. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves] Reference
Again we ask, is not dinner the very aliment of friendship? the hinge on which it turns?. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
By giving your reason the rude aliment of scholastic argument, you neglect your imagination. From Wordnik.com. [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference
And in like manner there was sufficient aliment for the largest and most voracious kind of animals. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria] Reference
But trade in itself is a necessary aliment of the State, and its abuses ought not to be beyond remedy. From Wordnik.com. [The World in Chains Some Aspects of War and Trade] Reference
Bulk of water, the gastronomic may depend, will not make up for the deficiency of solid convertible aliment. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines] Reference
But its greatest use is, that it is a store of heat-producing aliment, laid up for seasons of scarcity and want. 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
Still, the predestinarian aliment did not set well on her palate, or nourish her young and tender graces of spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth: the Disinherited Daughter By E. Ben Ez-er] Reference
India have any virtues, they cannot be such as to render them worthy of being universally adopted as a general aliment. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves] Reference
To thin and meagre bodies, which are greatly affected by green and bohea teas, the above is a most restorative aliment. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves] Reference
India teas, however physically beneficial, to allow them all their best of praise, must be as an aliment generally injurious. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves] Reference
No one at first paid any attention to him; but when public curiosity had no other aliment, he became an object of general interest. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But as long as he remained still a child, the fire, remaining as it were without its proper aliment, lay hidden: till he grew into a man. From Wordnik.com. [Bubbles of the Foam] Reference
She is unmarried; but, having fed her mind with no more solid aliment than country gossip, no sensible man could talk to her five minutes. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
Rice is said to have constituted the sole aliment of the republicans of early Rome, and it is still largely cultivated in many parts of Italy. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
These virtues combined may be said to form one of the most incomparable specifics, as a nutritive and restoring aliment, that has been discovered. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves] Reference
The use of the sanative tea between dinner and supper operates as the most reviving and wholesome aliment that can, at such a time, be possibly taken. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves] Reference
The qualities of an aliment chiefly depend on their nature affording that nourishment which is proper to the time of taking and the state of the body. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves] Reference
Nor should the aliment be so stimulating as to disorder instead of re-establishing the equalized motion of the yet perturbed state of the animal spirits. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves] Reference
Other patients may be late, and some wait until the physician is just about to walk out of the room to ask about another aliment or the "embarrassing question.". From Wordnik.com. [Hints From Heloise] Reference
With this scientific principle Dr. Solander having composed his sanative tea, has rendered it the most general specific in its effects of any medicinal aliment. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves] Reference
Thus, instead of being supported by nutritious aliment, its nerves are enfeebled, its spirits diminished, and all its functions enveloped with the gloom of melancholy. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves] Reference
"The most fertile districts of the habitable globe," says Shelley, "are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incalculable.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
In such a state of relative debility, gross and solid food must oppress the spirits, and thus render the body incapable of deriving nourishment from such an untimely aliment. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves] Reference
For this reason physical necessity, more than tyrant custom, has caused a thinner aliment to be taken in the morning and evening than what forms the meals of dinner and supper. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves] Reference
Du Meresq threw the coals on the waning embers, which responded with a cheerful fizz to the needed aliment, and then began unlacing Cecil's wet boots as she sat before the fire. From Wordnik.com. [Bluebell A Novel] Reference
By this investigation it will appear, that Teas imported from China and India are the most injurious of any beverage that can possibly be taken as a general and constant aliment. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves] Reference
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