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Poor mothers, leaving sick children at home, stood for Page 276 hours in the streets, in the bitter cold, to obtain a ration of horseflesh, or a few ounces of this unnutritious bread.

From France in the Nineteenth Century by Latimer, Elizabeth

In March, sugar could be obtained in only small quantities, six months later the unnutritious saccharine had almost completely replaced it.

From The Land of Deepening Shadow Germany-at-War by Curtin, D. Thomas

The mother is troubled by this over-flow, because it keeps her clothing wet; and the child suffers because of the unnutritious, watery character of the milk under such circumstances.

From The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by Napheys, George H. (George Henry)

Before him, he knew, lay at least fifteen miles of trail knee-deep with snow, and he had left but one small ration of unpalatable and unnutritious food.

From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)

His complexion was dark and forester-like, seeming to show a poor, unnutritious diet.

From The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times by Townsend, George Alfred