1 "Me loves evvybody," she once said, opening her arms, with her spoon in one hand, and her mug in the other, as if eager to embrace and nourish the whole world.
2 I explained that they were bare masses of stone, with hardly enough earth in their clefts to nourish a stunted tree.
3 The man for whom she had pre-determined to nourish a passion went into the small room, and across it to the further extremity.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face 4 It will prove her guilty, by showing that it is her habit to nourish enmity.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 6 Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter 5 I set myself above him and so become much worse than he, for he is lenient to my rudeness while I on the contrary nourish contempt for him.
6 All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, restored to the land instead of being cast into the water, would suffice to nourish the world.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA 7 Everything nourishes what is strong already.
8 Fever nourishes the sick man, and love the lover.
9 The fruit, or venison, which nourishes the wild Indian, who knows no enclosure, and is still a tenant in common, must be his, and so his, i.
10 I was nourished with high thoughts of honour and devotion.
11 Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.
12 The truth seems to be, however, that the mother-forest, and these wild things which it nourished, all recognised a kindred wilderness in the human child.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE 13 I sit down by the fire, thinking with a blind remorse of all those secret feelings I have nourished since my marriage.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 53. ANOTHER RETROSPECT 14 Dantes gazed on the man who could thus philosophically resign hopes so long and ardently nourished with an astonishment mingled with admiration.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 16. A Learned Italian. 15 Not by beef or by bread, are giants made or nourished.