Though modest and humble, she had conceived hopes the most romantic, and though she denied, even to herself, any expectations from Delvile, she involuntarily nourished them with the most sanguine simplicity.
All who had nourished reasonable expectations from her bounty she remembered, though she raised no new claimants but with oeconomy and circumspection.
I have nourished her duly, and on a day will give her to some young bachelor who will gain her bread in honourable fashion.
I have bought her with my money, and nourished and baptized her, and held her at the font.
The two brothers took two portions, and Travers one; but his was not the best, for all that he had nourished the pig.
She gave alms willingly, and was so charitable that she nourished and clothed the needy, kissing their hands and feet.
He hath nourishedand baptized her, and held her at the font.
Two profoundly serious factors also appear: the Brazilian family, perfectly constituted, and a hatred for the foreigner, nourished chiefly by religious fanaticism.
A member had spoken of the colonists as "children planted by our care, nourished by our indulgence, and protected by our arms.
Besides encouraging farming, the government tried to induce the men to engage in cod fishing and whaling; but the only business that really nourished in Canada was trading with the Indians for furs.
They who hold the egg was before the Bird, prevent this doubt in many other animals, which also extendeth unto them: For birds are nourished by umbilical vessels, and the Navel is manifest sometimes a day or two after exclusion.
Let me tell your worship that for a man to whip himself in cold blood is a hard thing, especially if the stripes fall upon an ill-nourished and worse-fed body.
Even if they are anemic and rickety, ill-nourished and deformed, and even if the mothers, already overburdened and underfed, die in giving them birth?
There were, however, two individuals, who, for very different reasons, nourished personal dislike against the individual so generally acceptable.
Presently out of the little forecastle emerged a stout man in a canvas apron and sporting a large well-nourished moustache.
Fortunatus perceiving his death to approach, said to his two sons, God has taken away your mother, which so tenderly nourished you; and I perceiving death at hand, will shew you how ye may continue in honour unto your dying day.
Soured and indignant as they were--not unnaturally--by the turn of events, in their hearts they nourished a certain secret sympathy for the conqueror.
Although the object of much abuse and even hatred from his old friends, he nourished no thoughts of permanent separation.
All have produced a prosperous progeny, nourishedin richer pastures, and attaining proportions of which their ancestors could hardly have dreamed.
Of a certaine rich man, who is fed and nourished by fiftie virgins.
In those Ilands are nourished store of cattell for butter and cheese.
For the culvers be nourished in those places where they be sent to, and they send them thus, for to bear their letters.
Nazareth is as much to say as, 'Flower of the garden'; and by good skill may it be clept flower, for there was nourished the flower of life that was Christ Jesu.
My dear, my love," said Jack, "I have tried to show you how the old true love was nourished and sustained.
I knew, and had known for a long time, that this man, formerly the avowed enemy of aristocrats, nourished an extraordinary hatred for the Arch Physician, and therefore I was certain that he would keep silence.
The God who superintends every mode of production and all forms, who formerly nourished with various knowledge his son Kapila the rishi, and beheld him at his birth.
Her pride was nourished by the consciousness of her charms, by her elevated rank, and the universal adoration she was accustomed to receive.
I fell at last into the hands of the miscreants that are nourished with human blood.
And there was all the hall filled full with good odours, and every knight was nourished in his soul.
For seven years he remained without a wife, and all that time young Tristram was nourished well.
And indeed no great height of spirituality could be nourished by a type of worship in which devotional feeling was concentrated on the expression of gratitude to God for the bountiful gifts of His providence.
Ezekiel was well aware that the cause of this obtuseness lay in the false ideals which nourished an overweening confidence in the destiny of their nation.
Babylon and yield all its produce to the power which nourished it.
First the seaports, then the towns of Flanders, and at last the wealthy Antwerp also, which by its mental activity and commercial resources had materially nourished the revolt, fell into the hands of the Spaniards.
The order went forth for its adoption in all churches of the land, no other liturgy was to be used; it has nourished and edified the national piety of the English people.
They had nourished the hope that the King might be prevailed on to reduce the English episcopate to the level of the Scottish, in the shape in which he had just restored it.
Assuredly a humble and sentimental desire for a generation nourished on the marrow of lions!
There is no doubt that for a short time she nourished the hope of becoming the friend of this Caesar, and it was a grievous disappointment to have to relinquish the idea.
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