How To Use Wholesome In A Sentence

But the wholesome image belies the complexities on the ground. Times, Sunday Times
And it behoves us to see that they're given a fair chance to develop clean and wholesome bodies without which any nation must go to the wall.
Her eyes missed nothing; her dainty close-set ears heard all -- the short, dry note of a chewink, the sweet, wholesome song of the cardinal, the thrilling cries of native jays and woodpeckers, the heavenly outpoured melody of the Florida wren, perched on some tiptop stem, throat swelling under the long, delicate, upturned bill. The Firing Line
Making ourselves miserable by these cravings and wishes is the unwholesome pattern of envy.
Thank you for such a smart dissection of an article like this, which I agree contributes to the kind of unwholesome blogosphere folderol that I try to avoid on my own blog. How to Irritate and Annoy People in the Name of Blogging « Whatever

The town is sprinkled with delis, farm shops and cafes where fresh, wholesome fare is on the menu. Times, Sunday Times
There is now a real movement in our society to pull our youngsters back from the edge of the precipice of self-annihilation and redirect our children toward a wholesome lifestyle which will allow them a chance to fulfill their potential.
The show cloaks itself in wholesome, old-fashioned japery with its broad misunderstandings ("I said ghosts, not goats!") and knowing winks at Hi-de-Hi! and Frank Spencer, and the way Miranda's mother (Patricia Hodge) flits in and out as if through a time portal to a 1950s Whitehall farce. Rewind TV: Miranda; The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret; Accused: Willy's Story; Garrow's Law
Now a common-place person would have been satisfied with the recommendation of the medical man, who looks but to the one thing needful, which is a sufficient and wholesome supply of nourishment for the child; but Mr Easy was a philosopher, and had latterly taken to craniology, and he descanted very learnedly with the Doctor upon the effect of his only son obtaining his nutriment from an unknown source. Mr. Midshipman Easy
They come with wholesome winter references such as alpine leaf designs or chunky cable knits, and should be worn with jeans and heavy shoes or trainers.
In appearance and atmosphere he was a strapping big college man, smooth-faced and easy-mannered, clean and simple and wholesome, with a known record of being a splendid athlete and an implied vast possession of cold culture of the inhibited sort. SOUTH OF THE SLOT
The aire of Famagusta is very vnwholesome, as they say, by reason of certaine marish ground adioyning vnto it. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
The lure, according to Ginny, is "wholesome Scottish oats, and local recipes like cranachan - a swirl of raspberries, honey and cream sprinkled with toasted oats - or the punchier whisky and honey, that other great Scottish combination. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
Nationally, the Liberal Democrats have consistently tried to present a nice wholesome face.
Little Women is a cheerful, wholesome account of the daily life of a highly principled family.
And that includes hues of oatmeal and taupe, which color consultants say suggest wholesome environmental awareness.
The story might have him playing an effete easterner converted into a "real" American by the Old West, or demonstrating manly American virtues in decadent Europe or corrupt Latin America, or good-humoredly asserting American common sense in response to vogues like health faddism or pacifism, but in all these plots he was the exact same wholesome, attractive fellow he had always been. The Silent Superstar
Substantial, wholesome, and clean -- though generated by a wet, helpless creature having no personal charms, and which, having passed the phase of life in which it enjoyed the gift of locomotion, has become a plant-like fixture to one spot -- the gas mingles with other diffusions of the reef, recalling villanous salt-petre and sheepdips and brimstone and treacle to the stimulation of the mental faculties generally. My Tropic Isle
Nevertheless, to kill any living being is an unwholesome thing to do.
This is Heartbeat meets The Royal meets Where the Heart Is, set in the quaint 1950s Northern Englandshire of classic motorbikes ridden by be-goggled simpletons with wholesome wives dressed in floral pinnies.
But 't is called unwholesome to get a house full o 'damp in the fall o' the year; 't will freeze an 'thaw in the walls all winter. A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches
He says that while natural weight-loss remedies may have a more wholesome image than slimming pills, an extensive review unearthed no evidence that they work. Times, Sunday Times
The whole philosophy of a stone quarry is to leverage out a wholesome material, free of cracks and other faults.
Dehydrated garlic prepared from fresh, mature, and clean wholesome bulb of the perennial plant Allium Sativum L.
And despite wearing the skimpiest, most see-through and downright raciest outfits, she is still regarded as wholesome and innocent. The Sun
She presented herself as a "hockey mom", a wholesome presence full of gosh darns, and gee whizzes, and dropped endings that fairly screamed "I am one of you! Daisy Morant: Not Buying Sarah Palin
Her first feature, La Ciénaga, or The Swamp, exuded a fetid, toxic atmosphere: a film on the verge of swooning, overcome by its own unwholesomely sensual fumes.
Though we may have started out extending a wholesome influence on only one person, that influence could expand to many others.
They took the name Bare Earth for their business to reflect their wish to produce good, natural, wholesome foods.
I watch her leap from rock to earth, my muscles trembling, sated in some unwholesome way. MOON PASSAGE
As a treat, you can put in a slice of a wholesome flapjack, a cheese scone or date slice.
And the pledges were largely of the motherhood and apple pie kind-wholesome, sensible and entirely unobjectionable.
Trouble is, it has all become a bit fruity and earthy, despite the best efforts of the SRU to keep it clean and wholesome.
Michael, keeping him in the tiptop of physical condition and mental wholesomeness. CHAPTER XI
He struck me as very simple-hearted and rather wholesome.
Buy none whose sell-by dates have expired, and try to select packages with the most distant selling dates but remember that in many states the retailer can redate “wholesome” meats that it has packed itself. HOME COMFORTS
Go to, then; we'll use this unwholesome humidity, this gross watery pumpion; we'll teach him to know turtles from jays. The Merry Wives of Windsor
If the Police didn't think Skolnick looked suspicious, she thought, Markets would surely tag him as unwholesome. MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
This family has waged a multi-year damage control campaign on Kim's reputation by painting her as a teetotaling, wholesome, serial monogamist. Melissa Terzis: Kourtney and Kim Take New York: It's Not That Big of a Deal
Sir W. Foster opposed any attempt to prevent the public from buying cheap food so long as it was wholesome.
The winter-inspired menu will consist of a warming vegetarian soup starter followed by a choice of hearty and wholesome Main Courses such as Chef Templeton's famous deboned ox tail or the delicious Springbok Pinotage Pie.
The honey gathered from the genus erica (termed _heather honey_) and most labiate plants, is wholesome. A Description of the Bar-and-Frame-Hive With an Abstract of Wildman's Complete Guide for the Management of Bees Throughout the Year
Like a lot of lefties spooked by recent unwholesome political successes by the American right, I'm angry and feeling rhetorically confrontational these days, but violence is not the way to express it.
The parent can then suggest wholesome alternatives to achieve the same end.
He explains that the native rats ate many kinds of berries, beech mast, and other wholesome foods of the forest.
Similarly it may be said — not as an ingenious speculation, but as a stedfast and absolute fact — that human calculation cannot limit the influence of one atom of wholesome knowledge patiently acquired, modestly possessed, and faithfully used. Speeches: Literary and Social
Wholesome families may be fine, but jokers want to be wild.
By means of the study of literature the best direct instruction may be given, and wholesome lessons may be taught abundantly in that charming way which accomplishes its purpose without a recognition on the part of the readers that they are being _taught_. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide
Part of the problem is how pleasantly but unvaryingly wholesome the evening is. Times, Sunday Times
He lived a wholesome life; a lunch consisted of stew, frybread and pie. Times, Sunday Times
In the unwholesome pool, or ever – stagnant lake. antistrophe 2 Sophocles : Philoctetes
But no, it was plain wholesome gravy and with a clean plate in front of her, Ann's verdict was ‘delicious’ for a pudding full of lean meat.
She was not a rigorous old moralist, nor, perhaps, a very wholesome preceptress for youth. The Virginians
Now he will show other Scots the benefits of eating wholesome food.
This is a wholesome look at what two citified and sissified urban brattlings can learn about a hard day's working wading through cow flops.
Wholesome merriment is the logical result of a deeply embedded faith, and seriousness is only sad when it becomes superficial. Christmas Luncheon
My book should smell of pines, and resound with the hum of insects," might have been its motto, so sweet and wholesome was it with a springlike sort of freshness which plainly betrayed that the author had learned some of Nature's deepest secrets and possessed the skill to tell them in tuneful words. Rose in Bloom
I urge you to try being a veggie for say one week and see how much you enjoy the taste of fresh wholesome food.
Her character demands that she appears a little wholesome, so we don't believe she's capable of anything wicked.
It's not really wholesome stuff, but it can be nutritious enough for a cat that can't eat dry kibble.
Bitter pills may have wholesome effects.
They are often given irregular, inadequate and unwholesome food supplies, and often no money for fuel, and are expected to dish up something six days a week and wipe out the 50 per cent malnutrition among children.
From this standpoint, rural people and their culture represent a negation of everything that is wholesome and pure about nature.
Wholesome and hearty, our Mini Banana Bread loaves are made with wholewheat flour and fresh bananas.
We need to opt for wholesome, unprocessed, home-made food. The Sun
Knowing Bloat, perhaps that's what it is, young lady gamming well-set-up young man, several poses-more wholesome than anything this war's ever photographed ... life, at least .... Gravity's Rainbow
I watch her leap from rock to earth, my muscles trembling, sated in some unwholesome way. MOON PASSAGE
The huckleberry is a sweet, dark blue berry, that grows on a very delicate low shrub, the blossoms are very pretty, pale pink or greenish white bells, the fruit is very wholesome; it grows on light dry ground, on those parts of the country that are called plains in Canada. Lady Mary and her Nurse
The will or desire to act can be wholesome at one moment and unwholesome at another moment.
Some discommend moated houses, as unwholesome; so Camden saith of [3155] Ew-elme, that it was therefore unfrequented, ob stagni vicini halitus, and all such places as be near lakes or rivers. Anatomy of Melancholy
For fretful parents, they were a hangout for hooligans cutting class to play Pac-Man, losing hours and quarters that could be spent in the fresh air and wholesome sunshine.
They were horrified that this should result from the wholesome food produced on the farm, and disregarded the letter. Times, Sunday Times
Several faculty members began to suspect there was something unwholesome about his relationship with Keith.
Let the globe be covered with wholesome fruits; let the air on which we depend for life convey to us no diseases and premature death; let man require no other lodging than the deer or roebuck, in that case the Genghis Khans and Tamerlanes will have no other attendants than their own children, who will be very worthy persons, and assist them affectionately in their old age. A Philosophical Dictionary
They're trying to show clean, wholesome, decent movies.
In the first scene, the First Citizen describes the Senate the 1% of ancient Rome: They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor. What Shakespeare Thought About the 1%
And then, smoking is an unwholesome lifestyle and causes a variety of diseases.
The triangle -- or quadrangle, if one includes your aunt -- may have been harmless but it could well have been most unwholesome. ULTIMATE PRIZES
Their diet was simple but wholesome, based on barley and oats, with just enough vegetables and dairy products. Times, Sunday Times
Also, a great nation having made up its mind that hanging is quite the wholesomest process for its homicides in general, can yet with mercy distinguish between the degrees of guilt in homicides; and does not yelp like a pack of frost-pinched wolf-cubs on the blood-track of an unhappy crazed boy, or gray-haired clodpate Othello, "perplexed i 'the extreme," at the very moment that it is sending a Minister of the Crown to make polite speeches to a man who is bayoneting young girls in their father's sight, and killing noble youths in cool blood, faster than a country butcher kills lambs in spring. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
Our center will provide a way for them to learn the art of clean, wholesome living and social responsibility.
Compassion is the desire that living beings be free of suffering and its causes, such as unwholesome actions. Dharma Quote from Snow Lion Publications
It was regarded as crucial to the fabric of society, a reliable and wholesome remedy for social ills and the principal conduit for the redistribution of wealth. Consuelo & Alva: Love and Power in the Gilded Age
Wholesome and hearty, our Petit Banana Bread loaves are made with wholewheat flour and fresh bananas.
Some discommend moated houses, as unwholesome; so Camden saith of [3155] Ew-elme, that it was therefore unfrequented, ob stagni vicini halitus, and all such places as be near lakes or rivers. Anatomy of Melancholy
It is a pragmatic solution, rather than a wholesome one, but at least we know where we stand. Times, Sunday Times
In the most wholesome sense it pongs eco, with spartan bamboo cabanas and dormitories equipped with independent renewable energy supplies, grey water recycling systems, pit-toilets that guests compost, and service roped in rubber time. Richard Bangs: Nic' of Time
She was aiming for a wholesome,(sentence dictionary) girl-next-door image.
Freshly-made soups were hot, wholesome and tasty, the homemade beefburger was a thick, meaty challenge for the appetite, while the warm pasta salad and mushroom risotto was beautifully presented.
It all seems a tad wholesome. Times, Sunday Times
Now a commonplace person would have been satisfied with the recommendation of the medical man, who looks but to the one thing needful, which is a sufficient and wholesome supply of nourishment for the child; but Mr Easy was a philosopher, and had latterly taken to craniology, and he descanted very learnedly with the doctor upon the effect of his only son obtaining his nutriment from an unknown source. Mr. Midshipman Easy
An event that packs in fun, frolic and wholesome entertainment is just round the corner.
The food was certainly satisfying, wholesome and tasty and the experience was a blast.
That is what I call wholesome and healthy - so we are as we always were prior to this little blip. Recent Activity
The society sold wholesome, unadulterated food at reasonable prices to society members.
The constant practice of the churches in former ages, in all their meetings for advice and counsel, to consent unto some form of wholesome words, that might be a discriminating "tessera" [symbol] of their communion in doctrine, being used in prime antiquity, -- as is manifest in that ancient symbol commonly esteemed apostolical (of the chief heads whereof mention in the like summary is made in the very first writers among them), -- having also warrant from the word of God, and being of singular use to hold out unto all other churches of the world our apprehensions of the mind of God in the chief heads of religion, may be considered. The Sermons of John Owen
Liberty — their liberty; an earth-born creature, nursed in the black mud of the Bastile moats and dungeons, and necessarily betraying many evidences of its unwholesome bringing-up — but the Inquisition used it in the name of Heaven. Pictures from Italy
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot of acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. Mark Twain
Given the overall deftness of direction and performance, one expects Irma Vep to be a highlight of the season - good, unwholesome larky fun.
Go to, then: well use this unwholesome humidity, this gross watery pumpion; well teach him to know turtles from jays. Act III. Scene III. The Merry Wives of Windsor
Briefly stated, these are: the wholesomeness of the water, the adequateness and steadiness of the supply, its availability under a sufficient pressure, insuring a good flow, and the legal restrictions with which many water-supply problems are surrounded. The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)
What this unwholesome alliance produced at the Javits Center was an unrestrained wallow in sentimentality and anti-development attitudes.
Power foods are a convenient pick-me-up and are good for you when used in combination with a wholesome diet of fruit, vegetable, grains, and proteins.
He lived a wholesome life; a lunch consisted of stew, frybread and pie. Times, Sunday Times
The lunch menu is fishy and wholesome: crab soup, crab and Gruyère tartlet, crispy salmon and dill fishcakes are popular.
Our stated aim is to give the guitar playing reader a wholesome understanding of every featured instrument.
O how I envy those people who can get up have a leisurely breakfast of something healthy and wholesome, browse through the papers before stress free, amble through the park to work.
The air in summer is reckoned unwholesome by the exhalations arising from stagnant water in the neighbourhood of the city, which stands in the midst of a fertile plain, low and marshy: yet these marshes have been considerably drained, and the air is much meliorated. Travels through France and Italy
Immediately, 10 beggars rush in to enjoy a wholesome meal of vegetable curry and chapatis, rice and dal.
The wholesomeness of industrial society during this epoch was captured by the American economist and Nobel Laureate, Paul Krugman, in his memorable image of a picket fence.
Repression and mystery, he considered wholesome for girls; and he considered the enlightening of them -- to some extent -- a prudential measure for their defence; and premature instruction is a fire-water to their wild-in-woods understanding; and histrionic innocence is no doubt the bloom on corruption; also the facts of current human life, in the crude of the reports or the cooked of the sermon in the newspapers, are a noxious diet for our daughters; whom nevertheless we cannot hope to be feeding always on milk: and there is a time when their adorable pretty ignorance, if credibly it exists out of noodledom, is harmful: -- but how beautiful the shining simplicity of our dear young One of Our Conquerors — Volume 2
This, though a plentiful, and by no means unwholesome fare for growing boys, was not what he had been accustomed to, and feeling far too heavy and unwell after it to venture upon an encounter with the Doctor, he wandered slow and melancholy round the bare gravelled playground during the half-hour after dinner devoted to the inevitable "chevy," until the Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers
Once I had emerged from my dark days of repression and conformity, I stopped my infatuation with pop stars and clean-cut, wholesome actors, and discovered the world of celebrity chefs.
I have had a bit of a dig around the pennywort: it sounds so wholesome, so cottagey. Times, Sunday Times
Fresh vegetables, as peas, beans, potatoes, squashes, and ripe fruits, in their season, are all wholesome, and help to relieve costiveness.
Bitter pills may have wholesome effort.
The main character is so wholesome and innocent that she's almost alienating.
He is simple in his habits, generous and kind, obedient to those who are over him either in civil or religious matters; he is a quiet citizen; he is very fond of a little "boodle" (when he can get it), and it is looked upon as one of his virtues which he sometimes pursues to an unwholesome extent; he is called up and rebuked for it, goes away and soon begins to do it again. Canada from East to West
Do you plan to come back from the Games brimming with wholesome stories of vigorous games of rugger fought, won and lost with honour on the field?
_was_ found out at once, and which drew a creditable and not in the least Tartuffian protest from Warburton, is a far more serious matter -- not so much because of the licence in subject as because of the unwholesome and sniggering tone. The English Novel
It's not really wholesome stuff, but it can be nutritious enough for a cat that can't eat dry kibble.
The lunch menu is fishy and wholesome: crab soup, crab and Gruyère tartlet, crispy salmon and dill fishcakes are popular.
Meanwhile, the Jos branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), has described as unwholesome, unconstitutional and parochial, the resolution of the Federal House of Representatives which directed the management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to redeploy corps members posted to Plateau State to other states. Thisday Online
The Phasis itself is the most stagnant of all rivers, and runs the smoothest; all the fruits which spring there are unwholesome, feeble and imperfect growth, owing to the redundance of water, and on this account they do not ripen, for much vapor from the waters overspreads the country. On Airs, Waters, And Places
It looks as though the food given the detainees at Guantanamo is wholesome, nutritious and appealing.
Her menu, a nostalgic take on the cooking of Northern New Mexico, includes tacos, enchiladas, flautas, quesadillas and wholesome salads.
Furthermore, I believe that there is a place of purgatory, where souls departed be punished for a time, for whom the church doth godlily and wholesomely pray, like as it doth honour saints and make prayers to them. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs
Another alternative is 100 per cent rye bread, which is relatively wholesome and nutritious.
That is why it is essential that patients in our hospitals should receive wholesome, fresh food. The Sun
The work station face of the kitchen should choose marble, scagliola or flashing is done, facilitate clean wholesome.
The factors include interest, independence, adventurousness, competitiveness and wholesome personality. One should exploit all kinds of ways to enhance their cultivation in higher education.
Better pills may have wholesome effects.
Her world was ordered properly, leaving her nicely settled in her old age, free to sit comfortably through the long afternoons in a wholesome air of carbolic soap and lavender polish.
Why is it that they bestow their ardour upon the well-adjusted, wholesome architects of pop's fatal new maturity?
The housewife of Jaffna, being thrifty, makes minimum use of ingredients to turn out simple, wholesome fare.
He discovered the liquid light of her dark eyes in the rippling darkness of the streams; the lilies recalled the faintly tinted paleness of her cheeks; the silene roses, scattered throughout the hedges, called forth the remembrance of the young maiden's rosy lips, and the vernal odor of the leaves appeared to him like an emanation of her graceful and wholesome nature. The French Immortals Series — Complete
He taught his loyal subjects saying, "People of Benares wholesomeness begins with giving up the five unwholesome actions once and for all.
But then, few of us have the time or the energy anymore to prepare and cook the wholesome food we once enjoyed.
He has graceful manners, but beneath his cornfed, wholesome exterior, you detect a spiky toughness. Times, Sunday Times
Is not truth the natural aliment of the mind, as plainly as the wholesome grain.
What authority surfeits on would relieve us: if they would yield us but the superfluity, while it were wholesome, we might guess they relieved us humanely; but they think we are too dear: the leanness that afflicts us, the object of our misery, is as an inventory to particularise their abundance; our sufferance is a gain to them Let us revenge this with our pikes, ere we become rakes: for the gods know I speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge. The Tragedy of Coriolanus
Their teacher-pupil relationship has the air of someone imparting unwholesome, faintly dangerous but thrillingly forbidden truths: a course in deflowerment in which the pupil must first be deflowered.
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What chance do they stand of growing up with a taste for wholesome, nourishing food when their mothers cannot be bothered to feed them correctly?
It is possible even in the midst of intense illness and the dying process to contact this fundamentally pure and wholesome state of mind.
Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a Worm. Ambrose Bierce
And it behoves us to see that they're given a fair chance to develop clean and wholesome bodies without which any nation must go to the wall.
This has had a wholesome effect on babies.
And in a no less wholesome or heartwarming vein, there is the annual wintertime Rusty Plum Holiday Bazaar to attend.
Guess now that B ‘n’ A have gone 180 degrees from on-the-set sex to full-time kiddo wrangling, a more wholesome environ is required. Your Right Hand Thief
They were supposed to keep the nearby city's riff-raff out and the good, wholesome and hardworking college students like myself in.
Especially if it's a supposedly wholesome sleb. The Sun
It's a tragically satisfying hobby that offers a never-ending source of wholesome fun.
Of such as are twice mowed I speak not, sith their later math is not so wholesome for cattle as the first; although in the mouth more pleasant for the time: for thereby they become oftentimes to be rotten, or to increase so fast in blood, that the garget and other diseases do consume many of them before the owners can seek out any remedy, by phlebotomy or otherwise. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
He seems to have developed a penchant for all things good, wholesome and American.
Fred Thompson, after a long summer's nap, showed up with his folksiest A game and told McCain's Vietnam story with Paul Harvey-like wholesomeness that nearly made me forget it was the 5,000th time I've heard it. Undefined
Their diet was simple but wholesome, based on barley and oats, with just enough vegetables and dairy products. Times, Sunday Times
Label packs as, ‘full of goodness’, ‘wholesome’ or ‘nutritious’ - terms which are vague and unspecific.
Athletic and family-oriented (all children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult), it brings to wholesome life a part of the city that can feel seedy and depressing.
Another way to increase appetite is to add flavor to wholesome foods using spices, sauces and seasonings.
Could anything be more wholesome? Times, Sunday Times
He says that while natural weight-loss remedies may have a more wholesome image than slimming pills, an extensive review unearthed no evidence that they work. Times, Sunday Times
The main reason for all these unwholesome events and relations have been the dispute over Kashmir problem, which has remained oscillating for this whole time between them.
The Cress of the herbalist is a noun of multitude: it comprises several sorts, differing in kind but possessing the common properties of wholesomeness and pungency. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
It seems American icon Martha Stewart might not be as wholesome as her homemade apple pies would suggest.
Every kind of domestic suffering that is bred in poverty, illness, banishment, sorrow, and long travel in bad weather, was crammed into the little space; and yet was there infinitely less of complaint and querulousness, and infinitely more of mutual assistance and general kindness to be found in that unwholesome ark, than in many brilliant ballrooms. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
All grades are wholesome but U. S. Grade A is assigned to products which are of uniform size and free of blemishes.
If people aren't careful, there is a temptation to substitute loving relationships for something which is unwholesome.
Out of the unwholesome cauldron of junk science, they have conjured up lawsuits over something called ‘toxic mold.’
The doctor returned to the captain, and said, "that there was no doubt but that the pig was measly, which was a complaint very frequent on board ships, particularly in hot climates, where all pork became _measly_ -- one great reason for its there proving so unwholesome. Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2
It leads me to seek for happiness in the lap and love of my family, in the society of my neighbors & my books, in the wholesome occupations of my farm & my affairs, in an interest or affection in every bud that opens, in every breath that blows around me, in an entire freedom of rest or motion, of thought or incogitancy, owing account to myself alone of my hours & actions. Letters
I intended to convey that our charming host and hostess were superior to the follies of fashion, and preferred leading a simple and wholesome life to gadding about to twopenny-halfpenny tea-drinking afternoons, and living above their incomes.
This wholesome family outing was enjoyed by all and afterwards everyone tucked into a delicious brunch.
The emphasis is on good, wholesome fun, and relaxation for the family with an enviable spread of good food and activities.
The health of the community and of the live stock also received attention: in 1583 one Pattynson was fined 1s. for allowing a 'scabbed' horse to go on the common; dead cattle were to be buried the day after death, and all unwholesome meat was to be buried. A Short History of English Agriculture
A flaccid, unwholesome-looking hand was raised slowly, in a kind of deprecatory gesture; then allowed to fall again upon the belly where it lay, with the five fingers, round and chalky-white, extended like the rays of a starfish. South Wind
I.. Because all meat and poultry must be inspected, the consumer expects to buy only wholesome products.
This subject is mentioned elsewhere: see chapter on the Arts and Sciences of the Singhalese.] _The use of fruit_ -- Fruits are abundant and wholesome; but with the exception of oranges, pineapples, the luscious mango and the indescribable "rambutan," for want of horticultural attention they are inferior in flavour, and soon cease to be alluring. Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
The taste of the public has, of late years, been accustomed to very high stimulants: no plain wholesome food will go down; and every thing must be hashed and stewed with some "sauce piquante," which however delicious to one palate, may be very offensive and disgusting to another. Periodical Indigestion
Lunchtimes on weekends and dinnertimes are spent together eating stew or tagine, soup or blanquette, homemade pizza or risotto, something wholesome, made with love. Jamie Schler: A Table, Les Enfants! Dinner Is Served!
A visit to the buzzing town of Ibiza provides a nice contrast to the wholesome yoga scene.
It would not perhaps be correct to say that the durion is the best of all fruits, because it cannot supply the place of a sub-acid juicy kind; such as the orange, grape, mango, and mangosteen, whose refreshing and cooling qualities are so wholesome and grateful; but as producing a food of the most exquisite flavour, it is unsurpassed. The Castaways
I had not tasted a real ‘home-grown’ egg till I befriended a wholesome farming woman, whose Rhode Islands and Sussex bantams run freely around the adjoining fields.
Perhaps they have - although, as Sierra Leone showed this year, the arms trade is still its secretive, unwholesome self - but if lessons have been digested can they ever answer the conundrum posed by risk-aversion?
It was regarded as crucial to the fabric of society, a reliable and wholesome remedy for social ills and the principal conduit for the redistribution of wealth. Consuelo & Alva: Love and Power in the Gilded Age
Wholesome people would not argue about the taste of such nastinesses: they would spit them out; but we are tainted with flagellomania from our childhood. Treatise on Parents and Children
And side by side with this wholesome admission has come a great awakening in the last fifteen years to the curative value of the _outdoor runway_, whether that runway be a field track, energetic walking in a park or campus, or a cross country run. A Girl's Student Days and After
The trace of tarnished copper, commonly called verdigris, poisoned the wholesome draught; a minute dose administered by stealth did incalculable mischief. Cousin Pons
It's freshly prepared with fresh and wholesome ingredients. Times, Sunday Times
She had made poor use of her opportunities in this respect, but if to be honest, healthy, and wholesome is lady-like, then Dawn was one of the most vigorous and thoroughly lady-like folk I have known, and what really constitutes a lady is a mootable point based largely upon the point of view. Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
It's big healthy hunks of wholesome home cooking served to a joyous family gathering.
The school nurse visited to talk about healthy bodies and the children learnt to cook wholesome foods.
It doesn't take long for the scab of small-town wholesomeness to be picked off, revealing the perversity festering underneath.
Another way to increase appetite is to add flavor to wholesome foods using spices, sauces and seasonings.
There is nothing unwholesome about excelling or about making a profit.
Also, other than fruits and vegetables, is there another healthy, wholesome snack?
Eat something wholesome at regular intervals. Times, Sunday Times
The secondary characters are a stock assortment of supersafe ethnic types, and Carroll's protosurrealism has been watered down into an ultrawholesome sermonette so vapid that Polonius would have blushed to deliver it: "We move too fast / We miss too much / We seldom see / All the miracles in front of us. Turner, in Her Usual Role
Go to, then: we’ll use this unwholesome humidity, this gross watery pumpion; we’ll teach him to know turtles from jays. The Merry Wives of Windsor
Their menu offers a host of wholesome dishes, delicious homemade soups, open sandwiches on fresh home-baked bread, ciabattas, wraps and tempting salads.

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