| 单词 | pabulum |
| 例句 | Finally, a musical without the tiresome, jazzy pabulum that usually passes for dance. 2010-02-10T20:33:00Z This sort of pabulum is the norm, alas, not the exception. ‘Sweet Caress’ review: A portrait of a photographer’s tumultuous career 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Like the weather, the pabulum of conversational palate cleansers. Aging in place: Many of us feel way older than we did just weeks ago 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z This view of biogeographic history was pure chaos, the antithesis of unification. And where did this pabulum come from? Evolution, but different: Adventures of a Darwin-doubting botanist 2014-01-12T15:00:00Z Compared to its sharper contemporaries, “Generation Q” is well-meaning pabulum—proof that conscientiousness alone is insufficient as a guiding force. “The L Word” Reboot Seeks to Absolve the Original’s Sins 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Still, in an age of "let's all get along" pabulum, there's much to like in a cartoon not afraid to show its talons. 'Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole': Animated combat fantasy shows its talons 2010-09-23T20:21:00Z No wonder this poetry and its music became the pabulum for Sufi gatherings, where this human-divine ambiguity was the keynote. Songs of the city 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Their account, more candid and offbeat than the typical political pabulum, represents an attempt, Abby said, to “give kids our age an inside perspective into life on the campaign trail.” Noticed: Jon Huntsman?s Daughters Tweet for Dad 2011-10-07T23:41:49Z But their observations about love are such pabulum that a passer-by might mistake what their glimpsing for the opener of a "Saturday Night Live" short film parody. The naked truth about "The Time Traveler's Wife" is that it would be a mess in any era 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z Some of these tunes are passable party pabulum but Thicke is such a total tool that it gets in the way of any fun. Robin Thicke: Blurred Lines – review 2013-07-13T23:05:09Z Some might call this gentle, consonant essay little more than pabulum, but it is sincere and well-constructed. BSO at Strathmore: A well-balanced ensemble that hits right at the surface We need to be wary and watchful, and we should refuse to accept political pabulum. Cynical Republicans want to know: What’s Liz Cheney getting out of this? 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Hidden Valley Renaissance is the ranch dressing of Italian Revival architecture — mostly pabulum, sort of has taste, taken for granted and consumed accordingly. Can anything stop Rick Caruso from turning L.A. into the Cheesecake Factory? 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z The Peabody Awards praised it for “offering the perfect counter to the enduring prevalence of toxic masculinity,” and the show’s Twitter account, which spouted pabulum about the decency of the human spirit, became extremely popular. What Did Romney and Sinema’s Halloween Costumes Really Mean? 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Also, four featurettes, under 10 minutes in total, quickly deliver promotional pabulum and are only distinguished when learning about how a shop teacher was split in half with a table saw. Blu-ray movie reviews: ‘Lady Sings the Blues’ and ‘Freaky’ 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z This kind of piously indignant pabulum is not a new performance for the current vice-president but rather something he perfected as a talkshow radio host in Indiana in the late 1990s. Mike Pence struggles to defend the indefensible and please his disastrous boss | Richard Wolffe 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z While it sogs relatively quickly, the soft pabulum that remains is still tasty, and sloughs off just enough of that cinnamon and sugar to make a satisfying bowl of cereal milk. The official breakfast cereal power rankings: Part I 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Deep problems continue to churn, but politicians across the spectrum tend to offer painless pabulum. Why civics education matters 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z “It is just emotional pabulum fed from a trough of outrage. It’s exhausting. It saps meaning from politics, and it discourages good people from pursuing public service.” Bidding Congress Farewell, Paul Ryan Laments Nation’s ‘Broken’ Politics 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Well, at least a 10-minute look when one cuts out all of the promotional pabulum for the cartoon. ‘Batman: Gotham by Gaslight’ review (4K UHD) 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Now, move over to the Blu-ray disc for all of the other extras that include a parade of promotional pabulum. The Fate of the Furious review (4K UHD) 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z An African American woman asked the first question on presidential behavior, and a brother asked a pabulum “all lives matter”-style question about each candidate’s ability to lead all people. The greatest snub of the debate? It was against Black Lives Matter | Steven W Thrasher 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Despite the proselytizing pabulum spackled into the cracks between the action scenes, the race itself is a sight to behold. ‘Ben-Hur’ review: The chariot race is spectacular, but the rest is pure schmaltz 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z By comparison, the carefully scripted Clinton commits few missteps, as she recites with practiced ease the pabulum that passes for right thinking in establishment circles. Sixty years and nothing to show: The slow decay of American politics since Eisenhower, Stevenson 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z Instead, in the biggest show of the year, in the largest house in history, you get this pabulum. Dodgers mailbag: Do the Dodgers need to trade for Sonny Gray or Jose Fernandez? 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z A dozen years later, Epstein describes himself as “allergic” to business school slang, to the kind of pabulum espoused in leadership books. Theo Epstein broke the jinx in Boston. Now he may finally lift the Cubs’ curse 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z It’s actually a pretty easy issue to defuse: just churn out some pabulum about how running for president is difficult and you’re thinking about the future of the country and blah blah blah. Marco Rubio just created a spectacular mess for himself: Why his no-show Senate record is becoming a big problem 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z The book is a popular graduation gift, which I suspect it would not be if it were merely optimistic pabulum. 13½ Life Lessons from 'Married…With Children' In the recently released update for its efficiency study of the Iowa regent system, Deloitte Consulting managed to dish out a softer stew of pabulum than we expected - and we already expected mush. Recent editorials published in Iowa newspapers 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Moore said he helped the Texas Republican brainstorm policies that would get beyond “standard Republican pabulum.” In the ‘credentials caucus,’ GOP’s 2016 hopefuls study policy and seek advisers 2014-04-06T19:54:04Z Conference regulars compare the corporate pabulum that they are served at Davos with the intellectual sustenance they receive at TED. Schumpeter: Ideas reinvenTED 2014-03-13T16:00:44Z Barry did not live, like Titian, in the taste of colours; they were not a pabulum to his sense; he did not hold green, blue, red, and yellow as the precious darlings of his eye. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z I should have mentioned long since that tea, the very pabulum of all domestic virtues, is the Russian's favourite beverage. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 2011-11-11T03:00:31.270Z Their newspapers afford the slenderest mental pabulum—their contents could be dismissed in ten minutes—and the respectable gentlemen in question are never seen to read books. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z The pabulum seemed to be of vegetable origin, though varieties of it had a peculiar flesh-like flavor. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z Such pabulum is not only gratefully refreshing, but it is satisfying—without being gross, it is nutritious. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z The operatic pabulum in England consisted of the works of Balfe and Wallace. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z Perhaps this is exactly what the truest fans want, a game of simplicity and flow, of style and artistry that transcends the pick-and-roll pabulum of NBA play. Winderman: Summer leagues showing how fun game can be 2011-08-21T15:14:14Z Then they doubtless supplied pabulum for such tales as Jack Archer, The Cat of Bubastes, and The Lion of Saint Mark, stories quite remarkable for the truth of their local colour. George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life 2011-07-31T02:00:08.463Z Even the few books that will bear going through twice, and then only after a decent interval, will not keep you in literary pabulum all your life. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z It is, however, on the whole more probable that simple plants first existed, and furnished pabulum to animals of low grade introduced almost contemporaneously. The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants 2011-06-01T02:00:24.880Z Gas is pabulum, Soylent Green, a medium for medicating hunger and killing time. Love to Barbecue? Ditch the Gas Grill, Fire Up the Coals 2011-05-25T08:50:00Z "Open this worthy knight where you will, you will be pretty sure to find some intellectual pabulum." Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-17T02:00:19.780Z So now it's time for him to again lavish his talent on films for grownups, and not pre-school pabulum like On Stranger Tides. Johnny Depp's Pirates Sinks on the Riviera 2011-05-14T23:02:38Z Conversation must soon flag, indeed, in a country where the intellectual pabulum of the fair sex consists, generally speaking, of a singular combination of the Catholic prayer-book and the worst stamp of French novel. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z To the naturalist, vegetable life, with regard to its modern uses, is the great accumulator of pabulum for the sustenance of the higher forms of vital energy manifested in the animal. The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants 2011-06-01T02:00:24.880Z “Instead they get fed this pabulum of cultural something-or-other that puts everyone to sleep.” Dot Earth: Culture, Risk and the Atom 2011-03-28T16:18:55Z Just as the fish swallow stones to aid the digestion, we need the accidents and frictions of life to triturate our moral pabulum, and render it more easily assimilable to our constitutions. Paul Gosslett's Confessions in Love, Law, and The Civil Service 2011-02-04T03:00:18.850Z The street, the school, the young people’s club, the magazine, the popular novel, furnish their mental pabulum. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z There may be some who regard it as in the nature of a free soup-house which caters to the appetite for mental pabulum more or less wholesome. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses It was a famine that had to be met, and much stodgy food was devoured, many long, hard words were laboriously spelt out, the pabulum offered was but too often dull and dreary. Maria Edgeworth I had also written for the "Westminster," and, in short, was furnishing about all of the monthlies and two of the quarterlies with American pabulum; and yet the public were not satisfied. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 That is true, but does not invalidate my argument, for it is not the book which is pabulum to our intellect, but only the thoughts which have been recorded upon its pages. A Modern Wizard Our intellectual nutriment is here, and though we sometimes study wood and wilds you cannot exactly describe it as natural pabulum, and though we do a little shopping you can't designate it as financial forage. Helen Grant's Schooldays One should not exaggerate the scullery; the philosopher who said "Feed the brute" was not entirely wrong, but it is quite easy for a woman to ignore the emotional pabulum that many a man requires. The Intelligence of Woman It fairly slobbered with the froth of sensation—lived on scandal, and obtained its pabulum by any and every means. The Case and Exceptions Stories of Counsel and Clients "How you birds of a financial feather do flock around the same pabulum," he coolly observed. The Portal of Dreams At its best and highest it is powerless—nothing better than, in the language of Carlyle, ‘Thrice refined pabulum of transcendental moonshine.’ The London Pulpit We are weary of the daily and systematic stuffing of people's heads with official pabulum.... The Forerunners From present indications all that can be said is to the effect that a pabulum similar in variety, no doubt meets the needs of many species. The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species Before one has arrived at a discriminating age, he cannot sit down to every sort of literary pabulum regardless of consequences. Confessions of a Neurasthenic The Social Era had for many years made its weekly appearance every Saturday morning, that its fashionable clientele might appease their jaded appetites on the Sabbath day by nibbling at its spicy pabulum. Carmen Ariza The Freeman's Journal, as the representative paper of the party and the chosen organ of the Church, is run on a pabulum of falsehood. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule The doors and windows should be open; so that fresh air, that pabulum vitæ, without which health cannot be sustained, may be freely admitted. North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 If they do not, no pabulum ever after, will their indurated tissues assimilate. The Book of Khalid There they get all the needed pabulum for the next political debate. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland You will serve your friends with delicate food, simply and daintily prepared, and seasoned with that wit and wisdom which remain as a permanent mental pabulum. What a Young Woman Ought to Know The pabulum vitæ of our earth is then to some slight extent effective in arresting transmitted sunlight, and oxygen must be classed as a solar element. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition During this period Hegel's views, consciously or unconsciously, penetrated the different sciences, and saturated popular literature and the daily press from which the ordinary so-called cultured classes derive their mental pabulum. Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy They supposed that the air contained a principle proper for the support and nourishment of life, which they called pabulum vitae. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease In health the blood and internal tissues are bacterium-free; after death they offer a most suitable pabulum for various bacteria; but between these two extremes lie states of varying liability to infection. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Indeed, we do not so much blame the editors of such books as we blame the public, whose coarse and vulgar mouth is always agape for such pabulum. Old Familiar Faces We may examine, watch and study bioplasm under the microscope; we see it take up pabulum and convert that which is adapted to itself into its own substance, while all other substances are rejected. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say We take our mental pabulum just as we take Liebig's essence of beef, in a very concentrated form, or as homœopathists imbibe their medicine, in the shape of globules. The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 But the Brontës seem to have had no childhood; unlimited discussion of debates, long walks without any playfellows, the free perusal of Methodist magazines, this is the pabulum of their infancy. Emily Brontë The philosophy of these phenomena would seem to include the idea that the mediate summer grafts had contained a full supply of pabulum stored up in the cambium layer. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924 Rice, although it forms the chief pabulum of nearly one-third of the human family, is the least nutritious of the common food grains. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock They mean that the public is to be given up, not as a heathen land for conversion, but simply as a pabulum for experiment. Eugenics and Other Evils The one is excellent mental gymnastic for the mature; the other admirable emotional pabulum for the childish mind. Practical Ethics Nor do grammar-school pupils bring lunch; 198they bring money, and buy lunch—pies, or doughnuts, or pickles—having done with the infant pabulum of primary bread and butter. Emmy Lou Her Book and Heart This would seem to confirm the idea that character of new growth is dependent upon the relative quality of stored pabulum in the cambium layer. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924 He will sell you the books you least need, and keep on his own shelves the intellectual pabulum for which your soul is starving. Mushrooms on the Moor Meanwhile, the daily papers furnished pabulum for the general curiosity and kept the interest as to the outcome on the increase. Flamsted quarries The grove gave them wood; the stream, water; the plain, pabulum for their horses. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Is it necessary, however, or indeed wise, that any man's mental pabulum should consist entirely of novels? The Book-Hunter at Home The immediate summer grafts, on the other hand, had contained only a partial supply of pabulum, enough to allow them to make six leaves and a top bud. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924 Librarians and library boards cannot be too careful about what constitutes the collection which is to form the pabulum of so many of the rising generation. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries The short club does not require much pabulum for maintenance, and new feeding roots with their root-hairs get the club under way quickly, because there is little useless load for them to carry. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911 "Well," said I, "I have some pabulum here; let's go to the mess and give them a snack." The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson In Strasburg geese are crammed with food several times a day by opening their mouths and forcing the pabulum down the throat with the finger. Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power Those who lead an interior life sedentary and contemplative need not gross pabulum, but would find their inward joy at the contemplation and discovery of truth seriously qualified and deadened by it. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 We come now to poetry, which some people consider very unsubstantial pabulum, but which forms one of the most precious and inspiring portions of the literature of the world. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries No wonder that, with such mental pabulum, you don't care for anything but dolls! The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor It was in vain that I suggested that they had better not plaster their faces and frocks more than could be helped with the sticky substance of their succulent pabulum. Tom, Dick and Harry It takes the place of sentiment which is of the proper mental pabulum for enlightened adults. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life Being aware that she was a woman of culture his desire was simply to supply her with the pabulum that she would expect. The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) We come now to fiction, which the experience of all libraries shows is the favorite pabulum of about three readers out of four. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Mental vigor, after all, is worth more than a mind grown corpulent and lazy with an excess of pabulum, overfed. The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart I hear that at Catalina the goats, deprived of their natural pabulum of hoop-skirts, tomato cans, and old shoes, feed on clover and drink the dew. A Truthful Woman in Southern California Through sense the barbarian mind feeds on the raw pabulum furnished by the immediate phenomena of the world and of its own life. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Multiply these pamphlets, the contents of which is indicated by their titles, by one hundred, and we arrive at some conception of the pabulum on which the people grew to Protestantism. The Age of the Reformation Here, however, were people with excellent intellects, whose craving for mental pabulum, especially in the winter, could be but partially satisfied. The House of Martha She thought day and night where additional pabulum might be procured, and at last came to the resolution of applying to Mr Cowie the clergyman. Alec Forbes of Howglen "A dish of lampreys quickly stew, And cook them with a turn, For that's his favorite pabulum From Mamurra I learn." The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) Loosely entertained and readily exchanged, opinions are the ordinary mental pabulum of the masses. Catholic Problems in Western Canada But the spirit is generally unawakened and can only grow with the pabulum of spiritual influence, in harmony with spiritual law. Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul I never heard of such an over-stock of mental pabulum as I found there. The House of Martha The prison had no facilities for administering spiritual pabulum to a British prisoner. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben The high temperature of this water, and the quantity of carbonic acid that it contains, render it peculiarly fitted to afford a pabulum or nourishment to vegetable life. Consolations in Travel or, the Last Days of a Philosopher In the light of modern views upon juvenile reading and entertainment, the Puritan ideal of mental pabulum for little ones is worth recording in an extract from the preface. Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book "It grieves me sorely to leave behind so much good pabulum," he explained, eying still the few morsels left. Prisoners of Chance The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, through His Love for a Lady of France But is it plausible that such pabulum meets all the needs of those people who frequent these entertainments? The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6 Does this wise and simple pabulum cure spiritual starvation? Infelice Wilkinson was in clover so far as papers and magazines were concerned, and both Miss Carmichael and Miss Du Plessis were remembered with appropriate literary pabulum of the same nature. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life Such unromantic literature as Acts of Parliament had not, it may be supposed, up to this, formed part of my mental pabulum. Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland It finds its pabulum in the mass it ferments by its vegetative processes. Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 For mental pabulum also, every higher creature, and especially man, is at first dependent on adult aid. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library True, he learned enough arithmetic to know how many marks made twenty and how many francs a louis; but the classics provided him with the pabulum his growing mind hungered for. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas But Miss Carmichael made a dash at the document, and bore it off triumphantly to her own room, along with her literary pabulum. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life It was long the fate of Molière to experience that restless importunity of genius which feeds on itself, till it discovers the pabulum it seeks. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Still more would it be of interest to discover what, if any, changes were wrought in the pabulum, or fluid generally. Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 Has he no desire to furnish a nourishing pabulum and a healthful inspiration to the mind of his country? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Though they have craved a richer mental pabulum, yet they have enjoyed less the study of the original text, than acquaintance with the commentaries and communion with the great philosophical exponents, of the master. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji Having laid out a selection, housewifely, and looked to the oil stove derived from the same source, she turned with some curiosity to the mental pabulum with which this strange young hermit had provided himself. Success A Novel Hast thou not heard of the supreme elixir—the pabulum of life, which, if a man find, he may renew his years, and bid defiance alike to time and the destroyer? Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 As to mental pabulum, in case of severe fever, I recommend for the patient absolute mental and physical rest; little talking, no noise, no visits, no disturbance of any kind. Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum. The Younger Set It contains abundant pabulum for the cynic and valuable data for the psychologist. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference I agree with all that is generally said about civic filth favoring the spread of cholera, but it does not generate, but only supplies the pabulum for the germs. Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885 From the time Mr. Rimmon had found his flattery and patience rewarded, the pulpit from which Dr. Little had for years delivered a well-weighed, if a somewhat dry, spiritual pabulum had changed. Gordon Keith With the flagellum comes motion, and with that abundant pabulum, and therefore rapid growth. Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 This was the sort of pabulum our morning sheet supplied by way of breakfast for inward digestion, and there was an irony in the meal which its uniqueness did not help to make palatable. The Siege of Kimberley Men's intellects must work upon the pabulum that is provided for them, and a theology in a systematised form is a necessity for the intellectual and reasonable life of the Christian Church. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Poor pabulum for pride when the first love is found Last also! and, so far from realizing gain, Each step aside just proves divergency in vain. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher I had often wondered what natural sound this was which could afford such pabulum to my old foe, Superstition. Aylwin The human pabulum in its original form flies, swims and grows on trees. Best Russian Short Stories Does the absorber of mental pabulum from books argue wrongly from similar premises? A Librarian's Open Shelf The last constitutes my chief resource; but the want of other mental pabulum is felt severely. The Personal Life of David Livingstone It offered no pabulum to the wrongdoer in the form of compensation for stolen humanity. The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights Coal, its dusky pabulum, was also practically a stranger on the upper Thames. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Inflammable matter may be considered as the pabulum of life. Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) For such “The Duchess” furnishes good mental pabulum, and Miss Corelli provides flights into the loftier regions of philosophy. A Librarian's Open Shelf A sublimated dime novel like "Treasure Island" came at the psychologic moment; the year before "The New Arabian Nights" had offered the same sort of pabulum, but had been practically overlooked. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities Some of this pabulum was not good for a growing frame; the excuse for offering it may be found in the exigencies of squatter-life. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 56, June, 1862 For she never reads a book, and illustrates by constant practice her belief that the fashionable intelligence of the Morning Post is a sufficient mental pabulum for a grown-up woman. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 26, 1890 And from scores of small remarks and minutiae of behaviour, which, in all circles, hourly imply how completely the idea of respectability involves that of costly externals, there is drawn fresh pabulum. English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice Balzac's novels, and the "Life of Thomas Paine" by Moncure D. Conway, with the monthly magazines and daily papers, were my mental pabulum. Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 Somehow she did not attract from him, as did Vina Nettleton, the rare pabulum which would have proved him just a Christian. Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel Other physicians, beside myself, can vouch that the presence of some persons affected her as a pabulum vitae, while, if left with certain others or alone, she was sure to grow weaker. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 The epic poems, dealing with the pseudo-historical characters who had fought in civil and foreign wars under Charlemagne, remained the favourite literary pabulum of the middle classes until the close of the thirteenth century. Four Arthurian Romances They know what kind of mental pabulum their people crave, and they are no more in business for their health than is the merchant. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 I was hungering for some other mental pabulum. Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 Even more, we have seen amongst us that he can even grow younger, that his vital faculties grow strenuous, and seem as though they refresh themselves when his special pabulum is plenty. Dracula Thus each endeavouring to seek its proper pabulum directed by a vegetable irritability similar to that of the lacteal system and to the lungs in animals. The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation I could set myself, however, as I have indicated, to find fitting pabulum for her, and that of her chosen sort. The Vicar's Daughter When potential life passed over into actual life in the individual Plato, it was not the pabulum that assimilated the man, but the man the pabulum. Life: Its True Genesis And we may accept the interest Adela shows in any kind of mental pabulum provided for her, as an analogous sign. Adela Cathcart, Volume 1 Good strong novels are the best pabulum to nourish difference between virtue and vice. The Delicious Vice The banishment of slaughter-houses to some truly rural situation, where the blood and offal could be at once utilized, would be another step toward depriving flies of their pabulum in the larva state. Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 Then indulgence feeds passion, and deeper draughts become necessary in order to produce the same effects, and cravings, once allowed free play, grow in ravenousness, while their pabulum steadily loses its power to satisfy. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes If it be a question of mere pabulum, it is altogether mal posé. Life: Its True Genesis The audience laughed reassuringly, and the Judge went on to supply fresh pabulum for mirth by suggesting that the Reverend Mother should clothe her nuns in their own tweeds. Hyacinth Competition plays a prominent part when there is question of the lower grades of life, in so far as these depend on a pabulum that is limited in quantity. The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) The public was not slow in showing its appreciation of pabulum put before it, and, so its directors averred, in less than two years the circulation rose from five to fifty-two thousand copies. Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works Men of sense and morality are coming forward: they dedicate their minds to this service—those practical minds whence will be extracted the only true pabulum for the growing intellect. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 21, August 20, 1870 But our ingenious professor of Jena dispenses with both the hare and the curry, in serving up his pabulum to the "protamoebæ." Life: Its True Genesis Here, indeed, Milton's utilitarian bent, his determination to substitute a pabulum of real knowledge for the studies then customary in schools, asserts itself most conspicuously. The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 "Let me know if I can do anything," said Helen, politely, opening the volume of Elizabethan lyrics which had succeeded "The Canterbury Tales" as pabulum for the class in English Literature II. Betty Wales, Sophomore This heterogeneous mass of considerations forms the mental pabulum with which we feed our minds. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler For education they were given that mental pabulum that was considered valuable to the adult; and their tastes, habits, and manners were judged from the same viewpoint. How to Study and Teaching How to Study The improvident pabulum "evolves" its own eaters, and then, spider-like, is eviscerated by them, as was Actaeon by his own hounds. Life: Its True Genesis There seemed to be pabulum in W. T.'s words. Rolling Stones The capillaries no longer supply the skin with its needed pabulum, hence it loses its elasticity and color—grows yellow and forms in furrows. The Royal Road to Health How that pabulum becomes amalgamated, reduced to uniformity and turned into the growth of complete opinion we can no more tell than we can say when, how and where food becomes flesh and blood. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler Those caterers for our morning repast, the staff of "The Jupiter," had been sorely put to it for the last month to find a sufficiency of proper pabulum. Barchester Towers They would have declared that family pride was her daily pabulum, and she herself would have said so too, calling it, however, by some less offensive name. Framley Parsonage His pabulum was an unquenchable belief in the Unerring Artistic Adjustment of Nature. The Four Million I never took any more of her songs, although that circumstance did not shake her faith in my literary taste; my abstinence from this exciting mental pabulum being probably ascribed to charitable motives. Urban Sketches Those caterers for our morning repast, the staff of the Jupiter, had been sorely put to it for the last month to find a sufficiency of proper pabulum. Barchester Towers Yes, don't you think that is a nice sort of intellectual pabulum for future public servants? Rosmersholm The rounds of visitation gave the child no chance to go to school, so her developing mind had little other pabulum than what her mother supplied so freely. He Fell in Love with His Wife He was not fastidious and both were mental pabulum—of a sort—together with whatever lay between these extremes. When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot For curiosity, in its idler sense, there was evidently pabulum enough. Life of John Sterling |
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