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Example sentences for "moderate quantity"

  • Supposing the cow gives only a moderate quantity of milk, the value of it will amount, in three weeks, to nearly the value of the calf.

  • While the appetite remains the patient should have a moderate quantity of sound hay, good oats, and bran; or even a little fresh clover, if obtainable, can be given in small quantities.

  • Another important point is to give bran mashes and other laxative diet only, and in moderate quantity, for a fortnight, and to unload the rectum by copious injections of warm water in case impaction is imminent.

  • During the period of convalescence good nutritive feed should be allowed in a moderate quantity.

  • It is not so important that a special diet shall be observed as that the horse shall eat a moderate quantity of nourishing feed, and he may be tempted with any feed of good quality that he relishes.

  • For this purpose fasting is to be recommended for several days previously, and when food is used it should be in moderate quantity, and of such a character as to leave little residue to accumulate in the intestine.

  • If free hydrochloric acid be present in moderate quantity, in a short time the fibrin will begin to be dissolved, but if the acidity be due to organic acid the fibrin will be dissolved very slowly or not at all.

  • Many cutaneous diseases may likewise be removed by the daily use of a moderate quantity of fruit, or other fresh vegetable food.

  • The ashes are put into wooden cisterns, having a plug at the bottom of one of the sides under a false bottom; a moderate quantity of water is then poured on the mass, and some quicklime is stirred in.

  • This flour, mixed with a moderate quantity of ground malt, and saccharified by mashing with water, at the temperature of 167 deg.

  • It is always better to keep them from such pasturage while it is wet with dew, and they should be taken out when they have eaten a moderate quantity.

  • The diet should be laxative and moderate in quantity and may consist of coarse bran mash, pulped roots, grass in the season, and hay in moderate quantity.

  • The food should be nutritive and in moderate quantity.

  • We have been, at our rising, so long without food on our stomachs, that they are not likely to be oppressed by a moderate quantity of good, ripe, wholesome fruit.

  • Salt may be used, in moderate quantity, but no other condiments.

  • Others say none is hurtful, if ripe, and eaten in moderate quantity.

  • My diet, principally, during the trial, consisted of wheat bread, of the proper age, with a moderate quantity of fresh butter.

  • I use no new bread or pastry, no cheese, and but little butter; and very little fruit, except apples in moderate quantity.

  • Before entering upon this diet, I was in the habit of taking a moderate quantity of animal food, but without very high seasoning or stimulants.

  • I use bread made of unbolted wheat meal, in moderate quantity, when I can get it; plain Indian cakes once a day; milk once a day; rice once a day.

  • The State would be more populous, more rich and happy; as the Happiness of a People, who live on a fruitful Soil, depends essentially on a great Number of Inhabitants, with a moderate Quantity of pecuniary Riches.

  • These discharge, in such Cases, a moderate Quantity of Blood; and this Evacuation relieves, very readily, as many as make use of it.

  • In the country I dine early, and it is only at that meal that I take either meat or fish, and of these but a moderate quantity, making my dinner mostly of vegetables.

  • No doubt a larger quantity of stimulant than is essential is taken by many literary men, and by other classes of the community; but a moderate quantity would, I believe, be found beneficial by most writers.

  • John Stuart Mill never used tobacco; I believe he had always a moderate quantity of wine to dinner.


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