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With Voltaire and the French revolution present to his mind in all their horror, he had been nourishing in his house a toad of the same spawn!

From Wilfrid Cumbermede by MacDonald, George

I had been nourishing an anti-slavery spirit since Lovejoy was murdered for publishing in his paper articles against slavery and intemperance, when our home was in Illinois.

From Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

He threw away impulsively the prudent pride that he had been nourishing.

From A Man Four-Square by Raine, William MacLeod

"Please do not say it," she entreated, and he saw the little hope that he had been nourishing dashed away.

From Nedra by McCutcheon, George Barr

For some time past he had been nourishing his soul on forbidden fruit,—books that had to be smuggled in and were of course all the more seductive for that very reason.

From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Thomas, Calvin