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  • Nevertheless, in consideration of your youth and the ill nurture, devoid of all gentilesse and courtesy, which...   (source)
    nurture = help to develop
  • It also prevented the females from wasting their time nurturing the offspring of another male.†   (source)
    nurturing = helping to develop or grow
  • My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.   (source)
    nurtured = helped develop or grow
  • I had begun to understand that we had lent our voices to a discourse whose sole purpose was to dehumanize and brutalize others—because nurturing that discourse was easier, because retaining power always feels like the way forward.†   (source)
  • He says, "It's as if you planted a tree and nurtured it—you have the right to sit in its shade."†   (source)
  • The infant wing had been massive and overflowing with identical cribs, each containing a baby that nobody had wanted, wards of a state that could barely feed them, much less nurture them.†   (source)
  • Nurse bees, August said, had a gift for nurturing, and they fed all the baby bees.†   (source)
  • There is, on the other hand, evidence that by the age of one year the gift of language begins slipping away unless it is nurtured.†   (source)
  • I have discovered, deep in the hearts of many condemned and incarcerated people, the scattered traces of hope and humanity—seeds of restoration that come to astonishing life when nurtured by very simple interventions.†   (source)
  • And, of course, they must nurture and protect the bloodline of Christ—those few members of the royal Merovingian bloodline who have survived into modern times.†   (source)
  • The rare gifts with which you were born may come to nothing if not nurtured and honed by careful instruction.†   (source)
  • Fortunately this mindfulness accorded with her nature: it brought her the same depth of pleasure Carl had derived from nurturing his strawberries.†   (source)
  • I also hear the woman explain that the Jamison Children's Center was established by Kern County "to provide children who need emergency shelter and protection a safe, warm, and nurturing environment."†   (source)
  • It was as likely to kill a crop as nurture it, and it sent grown men running for the nearest shelter.†   (source)
  • Time was slipping away, and they'd been forced to abandon the hope that they'd nurtured in the backs of their minds: the hope that if things went terribly wrong, Milligan would be there to save them somehow.†   (source)
  • Long ago she'd found him in this place, protected him, nurtured him, chosen him, but if Jason showed weakness, she would tear him to shreds.†   (source)
  • But her father remained in town, and her mother, when she wasn't nurturing her migraines, seemed distant, even unfriendly.†   (source)
  • Like Mr. Harvey's, it was a box, and because of this I nurtured useless envies whenever I visited other people's homes.†   (source)
  • Like a lion tamer she tamed twisting vines and nurtured bristling cacti.†   (source)
  • Sometimes the pain of our grief would break through the surface and threaten the fragile friendships we were nurturing.†   (source)
  • Despite what I'd seen—what I knew—somehow I'd still managed to nurture a childish hope that he'd pulled through, miraculously, like a murder victim on TV who after the commercial break turns out to be alive and recovering quietly in the hospital.†   (source)
  • After a few weeks, the seedlings would be transplanted into the field, in carefully spaced rows six inches apart, and then painstakingly nurtured.†   (source)
  • Others are angry because they had to leave behind a grandmother who became the person who loved and nurtured them most — a real mother.†   (source)
  • Her uncle had taken her on this trip as a favor, to nurture her budding talent.†   (source)
  • We will provide for the people who nurtured you as their own, if we have the luxury to do so in the future.†   (source)
  • If this could be nurtured, if the language skills could be developed on top of this, we could learn to break through any communication barrier.†   (source)
  • Since every man whose soul is not a clod Hath visions, and would speak, if he had loved, And been well nurtured in his mother tongue.†   (source)
  • Not that she was trying to; if anything, she nurtured the poor thing to death.†   (source)
  • The flickering hope for peace each of them had nurtured for so long flared like hot fire inside them.†   (source)
  • My delicate dancer's hands, which I'd once nurtured with the finest creams, now began to peel like the papery outside of an onion, and were stained all over the color of a bruise.†   (source)
  • We're here to teach, to nurture.†   (source)
  • He's got a gift, Mr. Moon told her, and she would be wise to nurture it.†   (source)
  • The first weeks of July burned into the plains, nurturing the cornfields with all the heat of a giant greenhouse.†   (source)
  • But only two of the Elders, Hekate and Odin, managed to nurture their Yggdrasill seeds to life.†   (source)
  • Medill accused him of nurturing the city's basest instincts but also called him "the most remarkable man that our city has ever produced."†   (source)
  • It wasn't entirely their fault they were uneducated and didn't know how to nurture children.†   (source)
  • The butterfly poked its tiny proboscis down into her hair, probing for nurture, then flew away unsatisfied.†   (source)
  • But they became the loving, nurturing bridge over which I walked to adulthood.†   (source)
  • He really wanted to have and nurture a strong family.†   (source)
  • She will therefore nurture her family, care for the environment and more homely things.†   (source)
  • Will she live forever if nurtured by the hands of future workers?†   (source)
  • Which she would then do, passing it off to me with a pseudo-nurturing squeeze of my hand.†   (source)
  • With Teacher Xiao's gentle nurturing I made noticeable progress.†   (source)
  • We began to suspect we were being nurtured through this healthy food.†   (source)
  • In an instant the magnitude of her own mistake was revealed to her, and she asked herself, appalled, how she could have nurtured such a chimera in her heart for so long and with so much ferocity.†   (source)
  • Endogenous or exogenous, nature or nurture—it's the great mystery of mental illness.†   (source)
  • You may still be useful, but only as a shadow of the hope that we have nurtured for over a century.†   (source)
  • But it kind of feels nice to nurture her resentment, to foster it.†   (source)
  • Now I dream of the soft touch of women, the songs of birds, the smell of soil crumbling between my fingers, and the brilliant green of plants that I diligently nurture.†   (source)
  • Caroline leaned against the doorway, her head tilted, and in that moment the dreams she'd nurtured for years had all coalesced.†   (source)
  • You created it, you nurtured it, you made it your own.†   (source)
  • Deep down, she knew he was nurturing the hope that she would come with him to New York, but she couldn't figure out why.†   (source)
  • The factions were our predecessors' attempt to incorporate a 'nurture' element to the experiment—they discovered that mere genetic correction was not enough to change the way people behaved.†   (source)
  • No nurture, no nourishment left for Kristina.†   (source)
  • Likewise, if a company can ally itself with universal values such as patriotism, national defense, and good health, it is likely to nurture belief in it among children.†   (source)
  • And I am thankful for the families that nurture such men.†   (source)
  • It's illogical that women, who are the bearers and nurturers of the human race, should go all out for ill will like this.†   (source)
  • Some security experts noted that the countries that nurture terrorists are disproportionally those where women are marginalized.†   (source)
  • Earth, I call you to me and ask that your nurturing strength take from my mind the darkness that has touched it.†   (source)
  • Harris was struck by how little it took to nurture and sustain life.†   (source)
  • Later, after we'd finished our salads, Mr. Tushman made a speech about the importance of supporting the arts at Beecher Prep so the school could continue to nurture the kind of "talent" they'd watched tonight.†   (source)
  • And she had watched and coaxed and nurtured the greenery about her.†   (source)
  • Jason, you will never do anything in your life that will bring more quality to your existence than growing to understand and nurture friendship.†   (source)
  • I just didn't have the confidence and determination to sit still and nurture them properly.†   (source)
  • Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear, and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live.†   (source)
  • The people with the second type of reaction, who had come to consider their honor a special privilege never to be yielded, nurtured a secret love for the cowards, for without them their courage would soon erode into a trivial, monotonous grind admired by no one.†   (source)
  • They were no doubt idle and deserted children who generally swarm in great cities, nurtured on vice and daring, said Mackay, and ready for anything.†   (source)
  • These nature-nurture discrepancies were addressed in a 1998 book by a little-known textbook author named Judith Rich Harris.†   (source)
  • My education in serious journalism that was born at Jacksonville and Talladega and nurtured at Anniston was, for more than three years, applied here.†   (source)
  • And I have been so contented, nurtured, loved, babied, spoiled and all the other good and belonging and happy words there are that ...well, I promise I'll be better about writing in the future, okay?†   (source)
  • Is it hard for you to nurture this normal life, to hold your family, yourself.†   (source)
  • At Rowan, we gather these sparks and nurture them and so continue the Great Struggle.†   (source)
  • Worlds apart from me in customs and dreams, they were nevertheless women who cared about children and wanted to nurture them in the only manner they knew.†   (source)
  • The power must be nurtured deep in the soul, else it's nothing more than grasping.†   (source)
  • He also finds her nurturing.†   (source)
  • Those constructs allowed us to test your psychological and physical responses to a warm, nurturing environment.†   (source)
  • From this height, nurturing life and prosperity in each isolated settlement seemed simply a matter of drawing straight lines to divert water.†   (source)
  • He claimed that Simon's belief in "a morality of language," an obligation to preserve and nurture the niceties, the line distinctions, that have been handed down to us, "is the credo of a czarist emigre, not an English grammarian."†   (source)
  • She had nurtured them from fall through the winter and invested them with the gift of growing that she had from Proas.†   (source)
  • Why was an attractive woman with dark red hair and skin obviously nurtured on a farm somewhere pretending to be a doctor of economics?†   (source)
  • I maintain that nurture, rather than nature, is the primary molder of personality, but my father possessed a proud rebelliousness, a stubborn sense of fairness, that I recognize in myself.†   (source)
  • The colt spent three years plunging around the track in devil-possessed rages and nurturing a vendetta against the hapless assistant starters assigned to hold his head in the doorless starting gate.†   (source)
  • Now, with her children grown, she earned her retirement stipend by putting the same dedication into nurturing her home, her husband, and her reputation as a hostess.†   (source)
  • Man's ethical behavior should be effectively grounded on compassion, nurture, and social bonds.†   (source)
  • It would mold the bumbling Kessell into a proper representative of its power, nurture the weak man into an iron-fisted glove to deliver its message of destruction.†   (source)
  • The sandblasters have been here, the skylight people; inside, the benjamina trees and tropical climbers have taken over, ousting the mangy African violets once nurtured on kitchen windowsills.†   (source)
  • As fetuses, they were nurtured in mechanical wombs, adrift in amniotic fluid brewed in a laboratory.†   (source)
  • I knew your father, and you are like him, in your nurture if not your nature.†   (source)
  • The spark must be guarded like a treasure, it must be nurtured, it must be fanned into flame.†   (source)
  • Here is the sole talent I ever dared nurture.†   (source)
  • I say this as a minister of the gospel, who loves the church; who was nurtured in its bosom; who has been sustained by its spiritual blessings and who will remain true to it as long as the cord of life shall lengthen.†   (source)
  • He denied that citizens had basic virtue necessary to nurture a good society, instead equating virtue with a knowledge unattainable by ordinary people.†   (source)
  • To get straight to the worst, what I'm about to offer isn't really a short story at all but a sort of prose home movie, and those who have seen the footage have strongly advised me against nurturing any elaborate distribution plans for it.†   (source)
  • Some nice, nurturing woman.†   (source)
  • He shared the dreams of Yousef's father, the need to return to one's origins, build something lasting, something open and strange like this fortress, something that could be shared by family and friends, everyone who had helped nurture him.†   (source)
  • But inwardly he feared that such a move might nurture in him a taste for privilege that would spiral, inevitably, to a valet, a food taster, and a standing appointment at an exclusive Tel Aviv hair salon.†   (source)
  • The poet was living then in a Norman tower which had been very much a part of the military history of the country in earlier and equally troubled times, and as his thoughts turned upon the irony of civilizations being consolidated by violent and powerful conquerors who end up commissioning the artists and the architects, he began to associate the sight of a mother bird feeding its young with the image of the honey bee, an image deeply lodged in poetic tradition and always suggestive of the ideal of an industrious, harmonious, nurturing commonwealth: The bees build in the crevices Of loosening masonry, and there The mother birds bring grubs and flies.†   (source)
  • As lovely a woman as I have ever seen, bred and nurtured like a gardenia, she has always seemed somehow odorless and sexless to me.†   (source)
  • The tradition of the frontier cattleman is as tenderly nurtured in Texas as is the hint of Norman blood in England.†   (source)
  • Eichmann nurtured Hoss's gifts, which led to some of the more distinguished advances in die Todentechnologie.†   (source)
  • But the wound still burned, longingly and bitterly Siddhartha thought of his son, nurtured his love and tenderness in his heart, allowed the pain to gnaw at him, committed all foolish acts of love.†   (source)
  • By how much the good of what they did and deeded to us was cherished, nurtured and encouraged, by so much did the country and all of us gain.†   (source)
  • To say I nurtured a medieval atmosphere in a modern, incredulous world.†   (source)
  • Creative people needed nurturing.†   (source)
    nurturing = helping to develop or grow
  • But the adults nurture them anyway.†   (source)
  • You live on—in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here.†   (source)
  • Now...for the family that nurtured you in that other world.†   (source)
  • It is someone who raises and nurtures you.†   (source)
  • Geyer still nurtured a small hope that the children really were alive, as Holmes insisted.†   (source)
  • Jenny's transformation from coldhearted plant killer to nurturing dog mom continued to amaze me.†   (source)
  • Even wood, which is its natural complement, can't survive without being nurtured by water.†   (source)
  • Against all odds, she nurtured a precious family bonded by an intense love.†   (source)
  • My parents have been a great nurturing mix for me.†   (source)
  • Since I wasn't able to spend it in the Archives, I spent some time nurturing my budding reputation.†   (source)
  • Campbell MacIntosh, childhood friend: "Amy is just a nurturing, motherly type of woman.†   (source)
  • This is very nurturing and strange of you, Go.†   (source)
  • My mom, meanwhile, is more nurturing, and a peacemaker.†   (source)
  • Neither of us had ever really nurtured a thing hi our lives.†   (source)
  • Our shared vulnerability and imperfection nurtures and sustains our capacity for compassion.†   (source)
  • I let my mom do it because it made her happy, but I know you don't like that nurturing stuff.†   (source)
  • Through his very helplessness, he was showing Jenny she could handle this maternal nurturing thing.†   (source)
  • In fact, she nurtured both of them with almost obsessive care and patience.†   (source)
  • As the days unfolded I saw in my young wife a calm, gentle, nurturing side I had not known existed.†   (source)
  • During junior high and high school, Myra nurtured my desire to be a painter.†   (source)
  • But if I nurtured some hope of buying peace as well, was that so ill?†   (source)
  • Was there any nurturing, any love given and received when you were a boy?†   (source)
  • Without it, a hole gaped inside of him where he had nurtured his hate for the Ra'zac.†   (source)
  • Booth nurtures a deep hatred for his father and the nation's father figure, Abraham Lincoln.†   (source)
  • I'm not here to raise a child, but a happy, caring, nurturing man.†   (source)
  • For all she knew, this night's foul fruit had been planted and nurtured in Highgarden.†   (source)
  • It combats Sunni extremism while at the same time nurturing it.†   (source)
  • There was no definite proof, after all, and I admit that I nurtured a slim hope as well.†   (source)
  • She was not motherly or nurturing, though she was both those things in time.†   (source)
  • It was much more similar to St. Pete, and St. Pete had almost nurtured me.†   (source)
  • She loved the way he nurtured her horses.†   (source)
  • They were the sons of Ari Shamron, the trusted heirs of the service he had built and nurtured.†   (source)
  • Normally, Warren Bellamy felt nurtured by the Jungle's earthy smells and the sunlight glinting through the mist that filtered down from the vapor nozzles in the glass ceiling.†   (source)
  • The recommendation of the research department was that Archie Bunker be rewritten as a soft-spoken and nurturing father.†   (source)
  • As one would expect, competition was stiff and Juilliard at that time was not at all a nurturing environment, especially for a student that was having any type of personal difficulty.†   (source)
  • Of course, we all nurtured the secret hope that somehow Tsalig had escaped and would be there waiting for us.†   (source)
  • They alone knew how tiresome was the man they loved to distraction, who perhaps loved them but whom they had to continue nurturing until his last breath as if he were a child, suckling him, changing his soiled diapers, distracting him with a mother's tricks to ease his terror at going out each morning to face reality.†   (source)
  • Wesley realized that if you wanted to bring about a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior, a change that would persist and serve as an example to others, you needed to create a community around them, where those new beliefs could be practiced and expressed and nurtured.†   (source)
  • I bring a perspective born in the brutal reality of child abuse and nurtured in hope for a better tomorrow.†   (source)
  • He told her about the joy he found in planting a crop, weeding and nurturing it, and watching the tender green shoots grow under his care-a joy that he knew she, of all people, could appreciate.†   (source)
  • He gently and gradually led me into the intricacies of ballet, nurtured me, dealt with my self-doubt and inadequacies with encouragement, and slowly moved me from the back of the class to the front.†   (source)
  • For three years she must have nurtured a feeling for him, kept it hidden, nourished it with fantasy or embellished it in her stories.†   (source)
  • Immigrant children detained by the Border Patrol entering the country illegally are now handled by the Office of Refugee Resettlement within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, an agency which uses jails sparingly and favors more nurturing open shelters and foster care.†   (source)
  • Nurtured by the kind and wise Under oaks as old as time, He ran with deer and wrestled bears, And from his elders learned the skills, To kill the foe in Durza, In the land of shadows.†   (source)
  • The man who helped make Chicago so hospitable to Carrie Watson and Chicago May, as well as to Mickey Finn and Bathhouse John Coughlin and a few thousand other operators of saloons and gambling dens, was Carter Henry Harrison, whose four terms as mayor had gone a long way to establish Chicago as a place that tolerated human frailty even as it nurtured grand ambition.†   (source)
  • It also grieved him to know she was dead and they would never meet, for he had nurtured the hope, faint as it was, that his parents might still be alive.†   (source)
  • Immigrant women who work as nannies and caregivers provide something invaluable: kindness and nurturing, often at the expense of their own children, says Kristine M. Zentgraf, a sociology professor at California State University at Long Beach.†   (source)
  • I'm sure that God made me in such a way that I was willing to work hard, but there was certainly a lot of parental encouragement and nurturing as well.†   (source)
  • Once they begin to be helped, fed, clothed, educated, nurtured, cared for, and loved, they start to become the children and eventually adults that God intended them to be when He created them.†   (source)
  • I might have nurtured some ill will toward her and her brother for the part they played the night of Joffrey's wedding, but I never wished them harm.†   (source)
  • It's not that I believed the shop would be there forever, or become a village institution, but I did hold out hope of the store's being passed along in the coming years, if going by a different name, from the Hickeys to whomever and whomever else, a humble legacy that a decent man had once begun and built up and nurtured.†   (source)
  • Remembering has to do with turning the oven off before leaving the house, but memory is nurtured by emotion.†   (source)
  • And slowly but surely, her students responded to her nurturing ways, like young plants to sun and water.†   (source)
  • And I'm the one who nurtures it.†   (source)
  • He drew upon the knowledge of the Eldunari and of the Riders whom many of the older dragons had been paired with, and he sang a spell that nurtured and fostered and restored what had once been.†   (source)
  • Surely it must be the nurturing—the Baby Mozart tapes, the church sermons, the museum trips, the French lessons, the bargaining and hugging and quarreling and punishing that, in toto, constitute the act of parenting.†   (source)
  • Surrounded on all sides by what can only be described as anarchy, Laura Keene nurtures the dying man.†   (source)
  • It was becoming a drain to be continually called upon for this nurturing and support that she just didn't understand.†   (source)
  • And shading these homes, where the unrelenting dunes once stood, cherry trees, nurtured by an uplift water scheme, grow thick and green and lush, blooming out of the sand as improbably as the students who walk home after school beneath their boughs, the girls of the Gultori.†   (source)
  • Ann has a finely tuned social conscience, nurtured as she grew up in Cardiff surrounded by family stories of mining and political struggle.†   (source)
  • They looked like they'd been grown and nurtured in colossal vats, a jumble of mutated cells that had been made to grow around a mechanical core until the machinery and engines were subsumed and buried within living tissues.†   (source)
  • He had been raised and nurtured among passionate warriors, fighters whose entire purpose in life was the pursuit of battle-glory — fighting in praise of Tempos.†   (source)
  • With a maid to handle the drudgery, I was free to concentrate on the nurturing tasks that provided me with so much pleasure.†   (source)
  • Moving women into more productive roles helps curb population growth and nurtures a sustainable society.†   (source)
  • It had done likewise a hundred times in the initial struggles of the world, creating and nurturing some of the most formidable and cruel opponents of law across any of the universal planes.†   (source)
  • But just then the baby moved, and she put her hands on her stomach and knew that she was nurturing within her what had gone before and would come after.†   (source)
  • The screams tried to break through her corneas out into the air, but the tough rubbery flesh sent them vibrating back into her brain, first shaking lifeless the cells that nurtured her memory.†   (source)
  • In both Asia and Africa, there is also a legend that AIDS can be cured by sex with a virgin, and that has nurtured demand for young girls kidnapped from their villages.†   (source)
  • He also published a book for teenagers, Be the Change: Your Guide to Ending Slavery and Changing the World, and he is nurturing other LC2LC chapters in schools and churches across the country.†   (source)
  • David Landes, the eminent Harvard historian, in his magisterial book, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, explores why it was Europe that nurtured an industrial revolution, and not Asia or the Middle East.†   (source)
  • My youth was a glut of words, a circus of ideas nurtured by parents dedicated to diplomas and the production of professionals from the tribe of children they sired.†   (source)
  • Herman Blake, a black professor at the college who had been born on a sea island further up the coast, was the mercurial, driving force behind the program; he devised it, implemented it, and was the strong shaft that supported the experiment in the early days and nurtured it past the stormy and vehement disapproval of the island troll, Ted Stone.†   (source)
  • But where had nature left off, and nurture taken over?†   (source)
  • But they had their own problems; they had no real ability to nurture.†   (source)
  • This was especially troubling for the Nurturers, like Father, who felt they had failed somehow.†   (source)
  • The Nurturers were very optimistic about Gabriel's future.†   (source)
  • For the earliest ceremony, the Naming, the Nurturers brought the newchildren to the stage.†   (source)
  • You know what the night-crew Nurturers are like.†   (source)
  • The two Nurturers unwrapped the blankets and laid the identical newborns on the bed.†   (source)
  • I will create a home of nurture and love, and raise them safely there.†   (source)
  • The real answer is a balance between nature and nurture.†   (source)
  • Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say.†   (source)
  • You talk very largely of nurture and I know not what.†   (source)
  • I just didn't have the confidence and determination to sit still and nurture it properly.†   (source)
  • We do reflect the influences of birth order but, as the psychologist Judith Harris points out in The Nurture Assumption, only around our families.†   (source)
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