Use wholesome in a sentence
Sentences starting with wholesome
- Wholesome pity would make you hesitate to harm others. [11]
Sentences ending with wholesome
- The land is very nourishing, the water is thoroughly wholesome. [5]
- On his day the pigs are brought into the public square to be blessed; and this is one reason why the pork of Sorrento is reputed so sweet and wholesome. [4]
- He is the sprig of bitter herb that makes the pottage wholesome. [4]
- In that moment she was naive and wholesome. [13]
- Within ten feet of the boiling spring is a spring of pure cold water, sweet and wholesome. [5]
- And that leads me to say, I cannot help thinking that the kind of criticism to which this Young Girl has been subjected from some person or other, who is willing to be smart at her expense, is hurtful and not wholesome. [6]
- Only come to me if you need it; we have some old Falerman in the loft, and white Mareotis wine, which is particularly good and wholesome. [10]
- In fact, looked at as literature, we can see that it is sincere and wholesome. [4]
- Everything seemed natural and wholesome. [4]
- Heart, lungs, liver, all in their right place.--And then, Galenus--What I like is bad for me, what I loathe is wholesome. [10]
More example sentences with the word wholesome in them
- Rarely to Stephen; whose wholesome respect for his employer had in no wise abated. [9]
- He had that wholesome, happy look, so uncommon in our arid countrymen,--a look hardly to be found except where figs and oranges ripen in the open air. [6]
- He had a wholesome respect, not to say fear, of her; for when all else had failed, it was she who had arranged his escape from Spain, and who almost saved Carvillho Gonzales from being shot. [11]
- The supply of wholesome provisions was inadequate. [4]
- The plain and wholesome language of Emerson is on the whole more needed now than it was when spoken. [6]
- He has a wholesome fear of the Baas. [11]
- They had a wholesome fear of him in more senses than one, because, during the past few years, while Wallstein's health was bad, Byng's position had become more powerful financially, and he could ruin any one of them, if he chose. [11]
- This is all wholesome and sound. [4]
- Nothing was so wholesome and invigorating as this bivouac in the forest. [4]
- How much more wholesome a picture of humanity than such stuff as the author of the "Night Thoughts" has left us: "Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but Himself That hideous sight, a naked human heart. [6]
- Berenike must know what he thought of Caesar's suit, and seeing her wholesome and honest hatred, he had sworn to himself that he would snatch his sister from the hands of the tyrant, if it were to lead him to the most agonizing death. [10]
- If the truth were known, it would doubtless appear that rich plebeians grew too prominent in their affectation of patrician show on the Grand Canal, and required a wholesome snubbing. [5]
- All his will was with the wholesome thing, but his brain, his imagination were always hunting. [11]
- She had brains, was perfectly fearless, no man had ever taken a liberty with her, and every one in the Wadgery country who visited O'Fallen's had a wholesome respect for her opinion. [11]
- Her outward presence was only an index of a large, wholesome, affluent life. [6]
- I know their voice is often rude and rough, but it utters wholesome truths, and no one needs to hear truth more than a king. [10]
- Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. [5]
- Their brother was tolerably well, having got to the end of a considerable sum of money which he became possessed of in the spring, and therefore under the wholesome restriction of poverty. [14]
- But the individual to whom this counsel is given probably has dangerous as well as wholesome instincts. [6]
- The quicksilver turned to vapor, escaped through the pipe into the pail, and the water turned it into good wholesome quicksilver again. [5]
- It was impossible to resist the wholesome eloquence of his temperament; he was a revelation of humanity: what he said had life. [11]
- It is enough to make a graven image laugh, to see apparently rational people, away down here in this wholesome and merciless slaughter-day for shams, still mouthing empty reverence for those moss-backed frauds and scoundrelisms, hereditary kingship and so-called "nobility. [5]
- But they came to have a wholesome regard for the sun-browned man with the red hair who guarded the Colonel's privacy. [9]
- True, in order to bring about this wholesome change, Slade had to kill several men--some say three, others say four, and others six--but the world was the richer for their loss. [5]
- And that is this: It is right and wholesome to have those light comedies and entertaining shows; and I shouldn't wish to see them diminished. [5]
- The Saturnians find this wholesome and palatable enough; and it is well they do, as they have no other vegetable. [6]
- In a moment, they came tottering in; he, bent and withered and bald; she blooming with wholesome old age. [5]
- I give thee, therefore, only a few wholesome counsels, and only fear that though I offer them with my right hand, thou wilt accept them with the left. [10]
- I've heern tell there was some lookin' raound here that wouldn't be wholesome to meet,--jest say the word, Mr. Hopkins, an' I 'll have ye on that are colt's back in less than no time, an' start ye off full jump. [6]
- The activity of the "elements" has a great effect upon country folk especially; and it is a more wholesome excitement than that caused by a great conflagration. [4]
- I am assured that every time a man finds himself blooming into fame, they just softly snake him down and relegate him to a wholesome obscurity. [5]
- Some are wholesomer than others, but all the ordinary diets are wholesome enough for the people who use them. [5]
- There was much talk on the boat about the Calhoun Land Company, an enterprise which is expected to work wholesome results. [5]
- The air is superb and soothing and wholesome, and the Chalet is remote from noise and people, and just the place to write in. [5]
- I am not such a hard-souled being as to apply this to the neglected poor, who have had no chance to fill their heads with wholesome ideas, and to be taught the lesson of self-government. [6]
- Pleasure him with sports, beguile him in wholesome ways, so that his health come again. [5]
- It is the spirit of the street transferred to the drawing-room; indiscriminating, levelling, but doubtless finally wholesome, and witnessing the immensity of the place, if not consenting to the grandeur of reputations or presences. [8]
- His complexion had something better than the bloom and freshness which had first attracted me;--it had that diffused tone which is a sure index of wholesome, lusty life. [6]
- Nothing ever really shook the place out of a wholesome control and composure. [11]
- Indeed, I soon saw that they meant to desert me,--kill me, perhaps, if they could, although I trusted in the wholesome and restraining fear which the Indian has of the great Company. [11]
- If he had said on account of ill-health, he would probably have erred, to judge by his wholesome looks and firm build. [5]
- That is all right for me, and is wholesome, because I have never had a headache in my life, but headachy people would not reach seventy comfortably by that road, and they would be foolish to try it. [5]
- The haughty Roman quailed at the thought of unknown dangers, but he was far from feeling the wholesome pangs of repentance. [10]
- I have here"--he placed his hand on a book--"the Statutes of Victoria, and it lays down with wholesome severity the law concerning the theft of the affection of a wife, with the accompanying penalty, going as high as twenty thousand dollars. [11]
- If it's wholesome petitioning you're up to, I'm with you; but I'm not if there's to be knuckle-dusting. [11]
- If there was one man of whom he had a wholesome fear--why, he could not tell--it was this round-faced, abrupt, imperturbable American, Claridge Pasha's right-hand man. [11]
- There is nothing of this sickish drug in the Parson's talk, nor was there in that of Jeremiah, I sometimes think there is scarcely enough of this wholesome tonic in modern society. [4]
- But they are not so wholesome moral entertainment for the dangerous classes. [6]
- Criticism is not necessarily uncharitableness, but a wholesome exercise of our powers of analysis and discrimination. [4]
- Therefore, learning being more prevalent and more easily acquired than riches, educated men became a wholesome check upon wealthy men, since they could outvote them. [5]
- A pilgrim without money, whether he be a Protestant or a Catholic, can travel the length and breadth of Palestine, and in the midst of her desert wastes find wholesome food and a clean bed every night, in these buildings. [5]
- If one would make these places wholesome, happy, and cheerful, the first precept would be,--The dearest fuel, plenty of it, and let half the heat go up the chimney. [6]
- Variety, which in limitations is wholesome in literary as well as in physical diet, creates dyspepsia when it is excessive, and when the literary viands are badly cooked and badly served the evil is increased. [4]
- To all intriguers life has lost romance; there is no poem left in nature; no ideal, personal, public or national, detains them in its wholesome influence; no great purpose allures them; they have no causes for which to die--save themselves. [11]
- I could see Labrouk's face plainly in the flickering light: a rough, wholesome face it was, refined by death, yet unshaven and unkempt, too. [11]
- He did not know that manuscript is to type what fresh dandelions are to the dish of greens that comes to table, of which last Nurse Byloe, who considered them very wholesome spring grazing for her patients, used to say that they "biled down dreadful. [6]
- Little Dicky Donovan knew, as he sleepily told Ibrahim to go, that for months the Orderly had listened to the wholesome but scathing talk of Fielding and himself on the Egyptian Government, and had reported it to those whose tool and spy he was. [11]
- The happy result is manifest all around in the substantial outside aspect of things, and the suggestions of wholesome life and comfort that everywhere appear. [5]
- Plain household bread is a far more wholesome and necessary thing than cake; yet who would like to see the brown loaf placed on the table for dessert? [14]
- The King was inclined to rebel; but Hendon said to him in a low voice-- "Reflect, Sire--your laws are the wholesome breath of your own royalty; shall their source resist them, yet require the branches to respect them? [5]
- One set believes in wholesome ways of living, and another must have a great list of specifics for all the soul's complaints. [6]
- Perhaps we agreed in too many things,--I suppose if we could have had a good hard-headed, old-fashioned New England divine to meet with us it might have acted as a wholesome corrective. [6]
- I think that in the country village a good theatre would be a wholesome influence, satisfy a natural appetite indicated by the inquisition into the affairs of neighbors, and by the petty scandal. [4]
- Mandeville never comes in that I do not feel a north-wind vigor and healthfulness in his cordial, sincere, hearty manner, and in his wholesome way of looking at things. [4]
- Pound, of whom I had a wholesome fear, or perhaps an unwholesome one. [9]
- Most of them, however, had a wholesome fear of Barbazon, and also most of them wished to stand well with him--credit was a good thing, even in a saloon. [11]
- He said to himself that this was a very wholesome fear, and that if he could always have her at hand he should not make a fool of himself so often. [8]
- She can teach her that wives are not expensive toys, but useful partners, friends, and confidants, who should always keep men under their wholesome influence by their diplomacy, their tact, their common-sense, without bumptiousness. [5]
- Should he keep her apart, or shut her up, for fear of risk to others, and so lose every chance of restoring her mind to its healthy tone by kindly influences and intercourse with wholesome natures? [6]
- Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the solemn pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others. [5]
- No, let her have the pleasure, if it was one, at any rate the wholesome excitement, of companionship; it might save her from lapsing into melancholy or a worse form of madness. [6]
- Much as we have gained, we have not yet thoroughly shaken off the notion that poison is the natural food of disease, as wholesome aliment is the support of health. [3]
- The pair could hardly have borne it if their minds had not had the relief of wholesome diversion. [5]
- Where is the hand that found the good fruit, That made a garret of wholesome herbs? [11]
- Well, well, a good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him from souring. [5]
- Him I reconstruct from scattered hints I have met with as a scholarly, social man, with a sanguine temperament and the cheerful ways of a wholesome English parson, blest with a good constitution and a comfortable benefice. [6]
- It is wholesome for us to contemplate the justice, even if we do not often see it in society. [4]
- Hers was a fine nature--high, wholesome, unselfish. [11]
- He was, in fact, a clean, wholesome man, with a flair for material things, as he had shown in the land proposal on which Shiel Crozier's fortunes hung, but with no gift for carrying them out, having neither constructive ability nor continuity of purpose. [11]
- When a person expresses a repugnance to some wholesome article of food, agreeable to most people, we are satisfied if he gives the same reason. [6]
- There is no end of wholesome medicine in such an experience. [5]
- When he broke down and cried for the hard-working, wholesome life he had lost, he was near the end of this season of despair, but he was also near the end of what was best in himself. [8]
- Medius, while he disputed so monstrous a statement, vehemently declared that such wholesome and nutritious food as those fish was undoubtedly calculated to prolong the lives of the whole family to an exceptionally great age. [10]
- In a few days you will be out of it, and then you can fumigate yourself and take up your legitimate work again and resume your clean and wholesome private character once more and be happy--and useful. [5]
- For the first day or two of my sojourn at home I was here and there at all the neighbors, and heard a good deal about my life and character, some of which was not very pleasant, but very wholesome, doubtless, for me to hear. [4]
- Indeed, the ugly creature contrived by some means or other--whether by his ugliness or his ferocity or his natural cunning is no great matter--to impress with a wholesome fear of his anger, most of those with whom he was brought into daily contact and communication. [12]
- There is no competent, and lasting, and real reform for him but to take away his whiskey entirely, and fill up his jug with Pitman's wholesome and undiseased alphabet. [5]
- And so, in choosing your clergyman, other things being equal, prefer the one of a wholesome and cheerful habit of mind and body. [6]
- This little sentence called out a wholesome sensation of modest pleasure in Miss Bronte's mind; and she says, "it did me good. [14]
- He was a big and wholesome young man, companionable, yet quiet and unobtrusive, watchful without appearing to be so, with the innate as well as the cultivated knowledge of psychology characteristic of the best modern physicians. [9]
- Nobody ever knew better what those two words meant than Scott did, and I'm very glad to see--you've chosen such good wholesome reading. [6]
- There was a bed to the right, also wholesome and dry, with horse-blankets for cover. [11]
- If I were backed by enough of his sort, I would make a strike for the welfare of this country, and try to prove myself its loyalest citizen by making a wholesome change in its system of government. [5]
- Was there ever anything wholesome that was not poison to somebody? [6]
- A lively, wholesome, and encouraging discourse, such as it would do many a forlorn New England congregation good to hear. [6]
- The fruit of all wholesome strife must be peace; let us pluck that fruit, Gorgo, and enjoy it together. [10]
- Last night Jean, all flushed with splendid health, and I the same, from the wholesome effects of my Bermuda holiday, strolled hand in hand from the dinner-table and sat down in the library and chatted, and planned, and discussed, cheerily and happily (and how unsuspectingly! [5]
- That penalty had a great and wholesome effect upon the garroters and wife-beaters; but humane modern London could not endure it; it got its law rescinded. [5]
- He was getting a good many wholesome lessons in these days. [4]
- But he is a gentleman of as great simplicity as courage, of directness and virtue--a wholesome soldier--" She thought again of that moonlit night, and Elise's window, and a kind of hatred of the man came up in her. [11]
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