And now, in Cedar Camp, having heard their father say he was going to take food to Mrs. Bimby, Flossie and Freddie at once had an idea.
The patient refuses to take food, and is obstinately constipated: the tongue is foul, and the skin is tinged with a yellowish hue: the eyes assume a glossy lustre, and exhibit a peculiar wildness.
Many of the lower Hindu castes, such as the Kohlis and Bishnois, take food after a funeral, seated by the side of the grave.
And the analogous custom of a man refusing to take food in the house of his son-in-law's family and sometimes even refusing to drink water in their village would be explicable on precisely the same grounds.
Proper Muhammadans look down on them and decline to take food or intermarry with them.
In Bastar on the sixth or naming day the female relatives and friends of the family are invited to take foodat the house.
A girl thus married is no longer permitted to take food at her father's house, but she may eat with the women of her husband's subcaste.
On the day before the ceremony a Brahman and his wife are invited to take food, and a yellow thread with a mango leaf is tied round the boy's wrist.
Then they invite each other to their houses to take food.
Thereafter all his relatives and friends invite him to take food at their houses, probably to mark his accession to the position of head of the family.
After a girl has been married neither her father nor any of her own near relatives will ever take food again in the house of her husband's family, saying that they would rather starve.
He said there could be no doubt of the child having died of starvation, and that the responsibility rested with the father, who had knowingly and designedly failed to cause his child to take food.
The jury deliberated for a quarter of an hour, and then returned a verdict of "Died from starvation, caused by negligence to induce the child to take food on the part of the father;" which constituted manslaughter.
From thenceforth she could not be persuaded to take food.
To receive as something to be eaten or dronk; to partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine.
Defn: To take booty; to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by violence.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "take food" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
