Those who are curious as to the ancient history of these observances, will find abundant aliment in the "Every-day Book.
Borri endeavoured, by every means in his power, to find aliment for this good opinion.
The proper digestion of food depends on the wants of the body, and on its power of appropriating the aliment supplied.
If, then, the food in which the needed aliment abounds is not supplied, other food will be taken in larger quantities than needed until that amount is gained.
When the cow is in low condition, or when retention is connected with drinking iced water or eating frozen feed, hot drinks and hot mashes of wheat bran or other aliment may be sufficient.
The treatment is mainly in the change of diet to a more solid aliment destitute of the special, offensive ingredient.
Plato says, that the embryo is an animal; for, being contained in the mother's womb, motion and aliment are imparted to it.
The gastric juice, together with the heat and muscular action of the stomach, converts the aliment into an uniform pulpy mass called chyme.
It is intended by nature for the first aliment of the young vegetable; but that of one particular grain is become a favourite and most common food of a large part of mankind.
The spurious looks to nothing but the luxury of its own emotion, and thus continually transmutes into poison the very aliment on which it feeds.
O I'll hae to bide here, to tak care o' every thing; and an aliment will be alloot to me for keeping poor Watty.
For my part, I think his kidnapping her has been nothing less than an instigation o' Providence, since he would na be constrained, by any reason or understanding, to settle an aliment on you.
By others, it is thought to be some saline Juice in the Stomach, by which the Parts of the Aliment are divided and dissolved, and those which are fit for Nourishment, are volatiliz'd.
Nature therefore having appointed the Saliva for the digestion of the Food, has taken care that it shall be thrown in upon the Aliment on every side.
The manner in which the Digestion of the Aliment is performed, is a thing not very easie to be understood and explained.
So in Inspiration, when the Diaphragm and Liver press upon the upper part of the Stomach, the Aliment must be moved again.
So that the Colluctation, or Fermentation, which attenuates and concocts the Food in the Stomach, does not ordinarily arise between the Aliment and the Saliva, but between the several Parts of the Saliva it self.
He first ascertained the precise quantity of sleep and food requisite to sustain nature and the kind of alimentmost conducive to health.
Such expeditions afforded the richest aliment for the black heart of this traitor.
Though an inordinate lover of carrion, a wise instinct has taught it that this aliment is unsuited to the tender stomachs of its fledglings; these it feeds almost exclusively on the young of small birds.
I had found a new source of unthought of reveries, that would supply my enraptured hours with aliment according to my wishes.
It was where the elm stood, the subject of Merlin's rhyme; and this circumstance sent the current of her thoughts in that direction, where there was so much aliment for her excited fancy.
The stomach, like every other part, can, and unfortunately does, acquire habits highly injurious to itself; and that of demanding an unnecessary quantity of aliment is not one of the least.
He was incessant in his close attendance in the sick-chamber, permitting no one else to administer to his aunt either aliment or medicine.
I find that your son, Mr. Frederick Everett, alone administered medicine and aliment to Mrs. Fitzhugh during her illness.
Again we ask, is not dinner the veryaliment of friendship?
Hence, with every people the development of the imagination and of the passions precedes that of the intellect; the passions and the imagination finding their object and alimentbefore the intellect.
Wax is the proper aliment of the larvæ of the bee-moth: and upon this seemingly indigestible substance, they thrive and fatten.
Having taken a general view of the course of the aliment into the blood, I shall now examine more particularly, how each part of the organs concerned in digestion, or connected with that function, contributes to that end.
Opium and coca are not foods; but they will sometimes support life when no true aliment can be procured.
The commerce with the Indians, too, within our own boundaries, is likely to receive abundant aliment from the same internal source, and will secure to them peace and the progress of civilization, undisturbed by practices hostile to both.
This aliment is favourable to idleness, augments the calm of the body and mind, and plunges one in a sweet quietude of far niente at a small expense.
As an aliment it was considered so wholesome and strengthening, that on the first introduction of them they constituted the food of the athletæ, whose patron, Hercules, had also fed on them in his youth.
Every one is aware that chocolate is an aliment obtained from the cocoa-nut, roasted and reduced to paste, with sugar and aromatics.
IV-58] It would be difficult to form an idea of the prodigious luxury which Rome introduced into an alimentso common, and of such universal use as bread.
Before their conquest by the Spaniards, it formed the principal aliment of the Mexicans.
XXIII-49] It is said that Spain owed its knowledge of this delicious aliment to Gorgor, King of the Curetes, who was polite enough to take some on the occasion of a journey which he made into that country.
Their ordinary aliment was very simple; we shall have to speak of it hereafter.
XXIX-19] True, this poor prince was continually tormented with a hunger that no aliment seemed capable of satisfying.
The oak furnished the primitive aliment of almost every nation, in their original state of barbarism.
