A supply of oil might then serve to restore this fat, and afford a sufficient pabulum to the devouring element.
If any thing were thus needed as a pabulum for Oxygen, we might suppose it to be the oil itself that was thus burnt.
This pabulum is derived from the alimentary canal.
Are not even those of us who may be enjoying seemingly the best of health supplying to our tissues pabulum containing mild toxins, thus causing an increased katabolic action to occur in each individual cell of our bodies?
This would seem to confirm the idea that character of new growth is dependent upon the relative quality of stored pabulum in the cambium layer.
The philosophy of these phenomena would seem to include the idea that the mediate summer grafts had contained a full supply of pabulum stored up in the cambium layer.
They know what kind of mental pabulum their people crave, and they are no more in business for their health than is the merchant.
Mental and Physical Pabulum When we go up to the shelves in the reading-room of the British Museum, how like it is to wasps flying up and down an apricot tree that is trained against a wall, or cattle coming down to drink at a pool!
How that pabulum becomes amalgamated, reduced to uniformity and turned into the growth of complete opinion we can no more tell than we can say when, how and where food becomes flesh and blood.
This heterogeneous mass of considerations forms the mental pabulum with which we feed our minds.
To remove the leaves and fallen twigs is to withdraw much of the pabulum upon which the tree was destined to feed.
I tried to get everybody interested in Browning and Shakespeare, from whom they could get mental pabulum worth while; I would have everybody look after his diction and not give vent to such expressions as: "I seen him when he done it.
Before one has arrived at a discriminating age, he cannot sit down to every sort of literary pabulum regardless of consequences.
For curiosity, in its idler sense, there was evidently pabulum enough.
Competition plays a prominent part when there is question of the lower grades of life, in so far as these depend on a pabulum that is limited in quantity.
It contains abundant pabulumfor the cynic and valuable data for the psychologist.
This band of patriots had pilgrimaged to Paris full of hope for their respective countries, having drunk in avidly the unstinted praise and promises which had served as pabulum for their attachment to the Allied cause during the war.
Librarians and library boards cannot be too careful about what constitutes the collection which is to form the pabulum of so many of the rising generation.
We come now to fiction, which the experience of all libraries shows is the favorite pabulum of about three readers out of four.
To get a further idea of the literary pabulum that the government subvention is creating for us, let us consider an average magazine of the so-called popular sort.
Then indulgence feeds passion, and deeper draughts become necessary in order to produce the same effects, and cravings, once allowed free play, grow in ravenousness, while their pabulum steadily loses its power to satisfy.
The gushing man is the very pabulum of sharks and sharpers; and it is he whose impressibility and gullible good-nature supply wind for the sails of half the rotten schemes afloat.
Vice is bad and malignant wickedness is worse, but beyond either in evil results to mankind is weakness; which indeed is the pabulum by which vice is fed and the agent by which malignity works.
These sheath-cells are then supposed to re-form and secrete a pabulum which is important for the process of regeneration of the down-growing axis-cylinder and medullary sheath.
Very early there separates out in this area genital cells and yolk-cells, which latter move freely into the yolk and prepare it into a fluidpabulum for the nutrition of the cells of the embryonic shield or germ-band.
Without such pabulum regeneration does not take place, as is seen in the central nervous system, where the sheath of Schwann is absent.
Orthopterous larvae seem not to have been yet announced as affording a pabulum to these animals: but the late Dr.
As mountains and hills have usually their own Flora, the insects appropriated to alpine plants can only be met with where the pabulum is found.
Pabulum is used not only of food for animals but also, in poetry, of food for men, and sometimes for the pastures, or feeding places.
In the last example pabulum is also used with an emotional tone.
To the naturalist, vegetable life, with regard to its modern uses, is the great accumulator of pabulum for the sustenance of the higher forms of vital energy manifested in the animal.
It is, however, on the whole more probable that simple plants first existed, and furnished pabulum to animals of low grade introduced almost contemporaneously.
Detective stories, melodrama, the glorification of the stale triangle in fiction and drama, the apotheosis of the Apache--what are all these but slight variants of the artistic pabulum furnished by our native merchants in mediocrity?
In the case of fungi and other plants that grow in the dark, they derive the power and the pabulum from surrounding vegetable matter in process of decay, or in that of evolving power.
In Strasburg geese are crammed with food several times a day by opening their mouths and forcing the pabulum down the throat with the finger.
Rice, although it forms the chief pabulum of nearly one-third of the human family, is the least nutritious of the common food grains.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pabulum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
