Sentence Examples

1. THE birthplace of the Australian cricket bat, its oval was an oasis nourished by purified sewage water.
2. Fix still nourished hopes that the robber would not, after all, leave the two thousand pounds behind him, but would decide to serve out his week in jail, and issued forth on Mr.
3. It was a long, cruel chase, but he was better nourished than they, and in the end outran them.
4. Or perchance he was some Achilles, who had nourished his wrath apart, and had now come to avenge or rescue his Patroclus.
5. Afternoon rain showers have nourished the soil and flowers in my garden.
6. No echoes of that discord shall be heard Where Father Tagus rolls, or on the banks Of olive-bordered Betis to the rocks Or in deep caverns shall my plaint be told, And by a lifeless tongue in living words Or in dark valleys or on lonely shores, Where neither foot of man nor sunbeam falls Or in among the poison-breathing swarms Of monsters nourished by the sluggish Nile.
7. Dantès gazed on the man who could thus philosophically resign hopes so long and ardently nourished with an astonishment mingled with admiration.