Nurture

LIV And so she ever fed it with thin tears, Whence thick, and green, and beautiful it grew, So that it smelt more balmy than its peers Of Basil-tufts in Florence; for it drew Nurture besides, and life, from human fears, From the fast mouldering head there shut from view: So that the jewel, safely casketed, Came forth, and in perfumed leafits spread.

It was as likely to kill a crop as nurture it, and it sent grown men running for the nearest shelter.

She didn’t bother to bury him if he needed it, or to nurture him back to health if she could.

And yet I cannot tread the Portico And live without desire, fear and pain, Or nurture that wise calm which long ago The grave Athenian master taught to men, Self-poised, self-centred, and self-comforted, To watch the world’s vain fantasies go by with unbowed head.

Such fleshy parts are the product of careful nurture.

He could only use them and nurture their distrust of others.

She wondered if that was nature or nurture, and wasn’t sure she wanted to know.

Accordingly among animals devoid of reason we find swarms of bees, and herds of cattle, and the nurture of young birds, and in a manner, loves; for even in animals there are souls, and that power which brings them together is seen to exert itself in the superior degree, and in such a way as never has been observed in plants nor in stones nor in trees.

His steps impetuous to the portal press'd; And Euryclea thus he there address'd: "Say thou to whom my youth its nurture owes, Was care for due refection and repose Bestow'd the stranger-guest?

They had the complexion of wealth—that clear complexion that is heightened by the pallor of porcelain, the shimmer of satin, the veneer of old furniture, and that an ordered regimen of exquisite nurture maintains at its best.