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“I’m sore afeared we have been nourishing a serpent in our bosoms,” said Nicholas, in his sternest manner.

From The King's Daughters by Holt, Emily Sarah

Monsieur de Saumaise, I have seen for some months that you have been nourishing a secret antipathy to me.

From The Grey Cloak by Peirce, Thomas Mitchell

"We appear to have been nourishing Genius in our bosom unawares!" remarked the Jabberwocks to each other; not altogether pleased, as is the immemorial way of friendship.

From Why Joan? by Kelly, Eleanor Mercein

Her diet, though it should have been nourishing, should have been less stimulating than usual, and not more so.

From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)