Sentence Examples:
She has been nurtured upon the most deleterious food, which I will prove to you immediately.
Through the medium of your valuable journal I propose to give to the world, to which we all owe so much, a few hints in regard to the deficiencies of Science, and thus place these, my carefully nurtured ideas, at the service of my race.
To those puny objectors against cards, as nurturing the bad passions, she would retort, that man is a gaming animal.
The most gently reared, the most carefully nurtured, of our children are those usually seen by distinguished foreign visitors; for such foreigners are apt to be guests of the families to which these children belong.
Our nurtured complacency and our sense of absolute security had always been unfounded, of course.
His friend spent the time in jotting down heads for an essay on the advantages of communal nurture for the young.
No organization can draw its nurture permanently from sources outside of itself, although many a movement has been nursed through its early stages of uncertainty and struggle by the aid of the sympathetic and understanding outsider.
There is no escape from the conclusion that nature prevails enormously over nurture when the differences of nurture do not exceed what is commonly to be found among persons of the same rank of society and in the same country.
"The high fed astrology which it nurtured, is reduced to a skeleton on the leaf of an almanac."
For one who has been brought up as she has, gently nurtured, looked after every moment, she is amazing.
This hostility was carefully nurtured by the insurgent leaders during the Rebellion, and much of it still exists.
They troubled themselves with no theories of education, but mingled gentle nurture with "wholesome neglect."
Nurtured among the hardy sons of Massachusetts, familiar with their exploits upon the ocean during the war both in private and public service, he felt assured of their ability to cope with the Mistress of the Seas.
By it each citizen was made deeply interested in the support of liberty; and thus the town had not only a public, but a public life, quietly nurtured as worthy citizens were successively called to manage the local affairs.
I have been 'nurtured in convulsions.'
And I believed him, Sir; I nurtured the scorpion in my over-sensitive bosom!
It represented a hostile feeling which had been slowly increasing for some time, which had been carefully nurtured by those interested in its growth, and which blossomed rapidly in the heated air of military triumph.
The distressing conviction, too, more and more forced itself upon them, that their advice and assistance were likely to be wholly overlooked in the nurture of the infant mind and management of the thriving frame of their little nephew.
The creation of her version of the creator was a meaningful and benevolent lie of universal brotherhood, and it seemed to her that the ultimate goal of motherhood was to nurture humane behavior even if one had to lie upon occasion.
A native quickness of apprehension and intense feeling nurtured this poetic sentiment among the Arabs.
The old man, who had a kind heart, kept a young sparrow, which he tenderly nurtured.
It seemed to me so natural, nurtured in the same impossible dreams, that I saw nothing ludicrous in his hopes.
Hubert's, which had nurtured him through his four academic years, was quite inordinately proud.
It was a mindless disregard that was sustained and nurtured by the generations of man that survived.
True nurture will not starve life in the present to hoard for the future.
Two great tasks, therefore, are included in the work of nurture: the first, to see that all that comes to plastic life from the outside is what it ought to be; the second, to somehow arouse the power within to vigorous effort upon the best things.
The results of this plan are two-fold: first, a freshness in the program each week, even with familiar features, and second, cumulative emphasis upon one truth, thus fulfilling the conditions of memory, and therefore of nurture.
Nevertheless, this is essentially a Roman nurture.
This incident is no bad solution of that strange circumstance which grave historians as well as the poets assert, of exposed children being sometimes nurtured by female wild beasts that probably had lost their young.
The carefully nurtured moral ideas about sex and reproduction simply represent the system of coercion which groups have found most effective in enforcing the division of reproductive and other activities among the individual members.
His children, stunted in their growth, bore traces of unwholesome nurture; but they had beauty in his sight.
I was nurtured in the kingly hall, I was the joy of many in the council of men.
To us, nurtured in this scientific nineteenth century, they doubtless seem so; and by Leigh Hunt, who had the eighteenth-century way of appreciating other ages than his own, they were uniformly treated as such.
For two centuries we have been removed from an artistic environment, and consequently can with difficulty enter into the feelings of those who have all this time been nurtured in love for art, and belief in art for its own sake.
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions, and these good constitutions taking root in a good education improve more and more, and this improvement affects the breed in man as in other animals.
He was nurtured in prosperity and attended by all its advantages; every one loved him and wished to gratify him.
Our Chinese brethren have their full share in the family feeling which for ages has been nurtured in their race.
She had been prepared and nurtured for beauty, only to bloom in an age when beauty had been bartered for usefulness.
Implanted in the tender mind, and nurtured with its strength, it assumes the tenacity of a first principle.
And is it strange that he who nurtures a principle thus pernicious in its tendencies, should be excluded from heaven?
Possibly there was some gypsy blood in him that defied their nurture.
Though nurtured and ripened by experience, it was not the offspring of art.
Had it been a human child, skilled nurture would likely have sustained its weakling life, possibly for many years.
Nurture, if it has been wise, has been the forerunner of culture.
He who has dared to become a parent can never honorably shirk the duty of nurture.
Parental affection is a feeling which, while it conduces to parental happiness, ensures the nurture of offspring.
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nurture and education.
For the soul when on her progress to the world below takes nothing with her but nurture and education; and these are said greatly to benefit or greatly to injure the departed, at the very beginning of his journey thither.
The woods that had nurtured the Indian should protect him.
Not often before in the history of science has it happened that a great theory has been nurtured in its author's brain through infancy and adolescence to its full legal majority before being sent out into the world.
The rams of the flock were well nurtured and thick of fleece, great and goodly, with wool dark as the violet.
The latter had at first paid from month to month for the nurture, then for the education and the expense of holidays for the lad, and finally had provided an allowance for him on making a sensible match.
Salk won the custody of his two children, Pia and Eric, in 1975 after a precedent-setting divorce trial in which it was ruled that he was "the parent that can best nurture their complex needs and social development."
He was the youngest son, and perhaps from the circumstance of being too tenderly nurtured, and perhaps from some constitutional defect, was never so strong and muscular as his brothers, and so his mother determined that he should study a profession.
The second form is that of a kind of family unity, either about the mother or the father, or both, or about a group of parents, in which the children live together and are sheltered and nurtured for their earlier years.
Her words have a gentle earnestness and honesty that could never nurture guile.
It must be nurtured and tended, or it will wither and die in our corrupt nature.
The cerebral processes by which the acquisition of knowledge is made are the same for each sex; but the mode of life which gives the finest nurture to the brain, and so enables those processes to yield their best result, is not the same for each sex.
Mother Earth, with air and sunshine, and starry heaven above, nurtured men's thoughts and souls as well as their bodies.
This movement would be so slow that it could not stir the fine sediment; its only influence would perhaps be to help feed the animals which were fixed upon the bottom by drawing the nurture-bringing water by their mouths.
We were brought up in her nurture and admonition.
He nurtures and trains all with equal solicitude.
Men are thus nurtured in imbecility, from the dawn of social life.
His poetical taste had been nurtured by the popular lays of his country.
To ask whether nature in general contributes more to a man than nurture is futile; but it is not at all futile to ask whether the differences in a given human trait are more affected by differences in nature than by differences in nurture.
Here was a distinct failure of nurture to modify the inborn nature.
The mother nurturing her child in tenderness, watching over it with untiring love!
Every bud and leaflet depends entirely on the nurture it receives from fraternity as the root of the tree.
Monopolies of this kind are begotten by fraud and nurtured by error.
The process of unfolding patterns, of decisions made in response to crises, of frustrations and achievements in living, are also the human content for religious development, and provide opportunities for both conversion and nurture.
How many have drawn from them their best strength, their highest wisdom, their best nurture and admonition!
Then the early twig is nurtured, and the early blossom unfolded on woman's bosom.
The Mother fondles one and nurtures it with the greatest affection and care, but hates and neglects the other.
Such to my fancy is this favored spot, whose invitation is to the fortunate few who believe that "the noblest mind the best contentment has," and that the fairest land is that which brings forth and nurtures the fairest souls.
Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
His wounded arm, which Hendricks had placed in a sling, did not appear to cause him much pain; at all events, he did not complain as most boys more delicately nurtured than he had been would have done.
Then Paul, speaking very softly, said, "Dear Margaret, I have bidden you come hither, for I think I am called hence; and when I depart, and I know not when it may be, I would close my eyes in the dear house where I was nurtured."
That so dangerous a conspiracy should have been nurtured in his crew, astonished him beyond expression.
You may call me superstitious, credulous: I have been nurtured in credulity.
Presently, after passing through dark passages, the porter opened the door of a cell-like chamber where no light was visible, and which looked most unfit for a living being, much less for the delicately nurtured Carlo.
We had been nurtured differently, and every impulse of our respective lives had been trained in different grooves, and for different motives; and yet out of that chaos of differences had happened the wonderful thing of our meeting.
She is the true gentlewoman, who nurtures most faithfully in herself the calm virtues of the domestic walk.
She is called to preside over schools for the nurture of the infant mind.
He had known that the girl of the shore could be no commonplace, primly nurtured young woman.
Dennis, who had been bred and nurtured in the good old school, and had administered the good old laws on the good old plan, always once and sometimes twice every six weeks, for a long time bore these appeals with a deal of philosophy.
The colonial authorities protested against the policy of importing slaves, which the mother country persisted in maintaining, until powerful interests were gathered around it, and opinions were thus nurtured to support and defend the fatal error.
Hence, the life of the profession naturally nurtured pride in the nation; and while States'-Rights had undermined the principle of loyalty to the Union, it had been less successful in destroying love for it.
Give then the people knowledge, without stint, for it nurtures the soul.
It was gore then, that this delicately nurtured young person craved, good red gore, and plenty of it!
How many have drawn from them their truest strength, their highest wisdom, their best nurture and admonition!
Many of them were born, and their boyhood nurtured amongst the hills.
When it is understood that thousands upon thousands of delicately nurtured women and infants in arms and old and feeble people were in this plight nothing need be added to describe the misery of their condition.
Scorpion whom I have nurtured, traitor whom I have fondled, is this your bloody secret?
I'm sure he's nobly born and nurtured, sire.
They were rich people, noble people, born in affluence, nurtured in affluence.
You shall marry some wealthy heiress, and you shall bring up your son as I have reared and nurtured you.
In the rudest domestic quarters a few pet plants are seen whose arrangement and nurture show womanly care.
The strong nation is that in which under the leadership of universal free education and equal opportunities, a due watch is maintained to see that the rights of all individuals and all classes are nurtured and carefully guarded.
Gavin had been nurtured on songs and tales of noble deeds and deathless devotion.
It has been said that they nurture infidel propensities.