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Example sentences for "animal food"

  • It then appears to be exceedingly wholesome, and to be a suitable corrective to the grossness of animal food.

  • When young, and properly dressed, it forms an agreeable and wholesome addition to animal food, the grossness of which, it is said, it tends to correct.

  • The Indian is a hunter: he makes great use of fire, and subsists almost entirely on animal food.

  • I admit, that in some respects the use of animal food retards, though it cannot materially inhibit, the perfectibility of the species.

  • One man renounces the use of animal food; and another of coin; and another of domestic hired service; and another of the state; and on the whole we have a commendable share of reason and hope.

  • What have I got to say about temperance, the use of animal food, and so forth?

  • It is, however, in all probability the great bulk of a potato diet, and its total want of ready formed fat, that render the addition to it of animal food so very desirable.

  • The Chinese are by no means averse to animal food, but they are so numerous, that they are in general obliged to content themselves on a purely vegetable diet.

  • The artizans employed in our great industries are comparatively well paid for their toil; and the results of their labor place within their reach a fair share of animal food.

  • But sixteen hundred years ago the philosopher Lucian called attention to the exceptional longevity of the Pythagorean ascetics, whose religious by-laws enjoined total abstinence from wine and all sorts of animal food.

  • Reasons Why a Strictly Vegetable Diet Is to Be Preferred to Animal Food.

  • In my long medical career, I have rarely known an instance in which a child has not preferred fruit to animal food.

  • Animal food, to use a common phrase, is "bolted.

  • With the increase of prosperity, it has been observed, there is a corresponding increase in the use of animal food.

  • That a person may subsist, and even be strong and healthy, without the use of animal food is proven by the lives of many vegetarians in all ranks of society.

  • A merchant in England who had reached the enormous weight of four hundred and fifty-seven pounds put himself upon a diet of four ounces of animal food, six ounces of bread, and two pounds of liquid in twenty-four hours.

  • The sacred fire is fond of animal food,' this saying has come down to us.

  • And in this matter of animal food, this rule has been laid down by Munis:--Whoever partakes of animal food after having first offered it duly and respectfully to the gods and the manes, is not polluted by the act.

  • And terrible Rakshasas subsisting on animal food, or gigantic and fierce mien, all become unable to prevail over a Brahmana who practiseth these purifications.

  • If, O Brahmana, the sacred fire had not been so fond of animal food in ancient times, it could never have become the food of any one.

  • The diet of the latter months of infancy is still to be continued, but with the important addition of animal food, which the child has now got teeth to masticate.

  • Although there is here a theoretical advantage in favour of animal food, there are other considerations of far more importance than a little undigestible waste.

  • This is due to an abundance of animal food.

  • In like manner, a feast of animal food in savages, whose customary diet was almost exclusively vegetable, has been described by travellers as producing great excitement and stimulation similar to that of intoxicating spirits.

  • It is undoubtedly the most simple and economical, and, when skilfully conducted, one of those best calculated to develop the flavour and nutritious qualities of animal food.

  • Its farina or starch is, however, accompanied by no inconsiderable portion of saline matter, more especially of potassa, which renders it highly antiscorbutic, and a powerful corrective of the grossness of animal food.

  • In this happy state of innocence we have kept their minds, not allowing them to go into the kitchen, or to hear of any preparations for the dressing of animal food, or even to know that such things are practised.

  • Two things are to be observed in the last remarks, which are, that children demand drink of any kind but seldom, and that even this occasional demand is often the special result of the use of animal food.

  • Children need little if any drink, so long as their food is nothing but milk; nor indeed for some time afterward, unless they are indulged in the use of animal food.

  • This they enjoy greatly; and much advantage is occasionally experienced from its use, especially after they have commenced the use of animal food.

  • Mr. Locke's opinion in favor of bread for young children, and against the use of animal food.

  • Richardson: "In all my long medical career, extending over forty years, I have rarely known a case in which a child has not preferred fruit to animal food.

  • Pooter's idea of "animal food" was the horse's diet of oats, beans and choppings.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    animal bodies; animal body; animal food; animal forms; animal life; animal nature; animal origin; animal spirits; animal structure; animal substances; animal tissues; animals and; class ticket; clean place; college days; could haue; created things; fine view; given above; hath made; missionary life; ordinary temperatures; oxalic acid; she sighed; think maybe; working capital