Nourisher

Inaugurated in Rome in the third century B.C., the Hilaria was dedicated to a pagan goddess named Cybele, sometimes called "The Great Mother of the Gods," sometimes as "the all-Begetter, the all-Nourisher" and sometimes merely as "Mother of Nature."

Liz Smith: A Chapter From The Mother Book 2008

Having therefore convinced us in the former time [315] that our nature was unable to attain to life, and having now revealed the Saviour who is able to save even those things which it was [formerly] impossible to save, by both these facts He desired to lead us to trust in His kindness, to esteem Him our Nourisher, Father, Teacher, Counsellor,

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

And Justin well said in his book against Marcion, that he would not have believed the Lord Himself, if He had announced any other God than the Fashioner and Maker [of the world], and our Nourisher.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

As Death is to a mans whole Life, so is Sleep to a day each nights Sleep to us, sore Labours Bath, Bath of Labour, Balm of Hurt minds, great natures second Course, chief Nourisher in Lifes feast.

John Adams diary, June 1753 - April 1754, September 1758 - January 1759 1966

Solitude is a Personage, in a clean, wholsome Dress, the Nurse and Nourisher of sense.

John Adams diary 7, 21 March - 18 October 1761 1961

O Thou Kind Bestower, O Nourisher of our souls and hearts!

Bahíyyih Khánum

Distempers, besides the loss of time, and a great waste of such Beer that is generally much thrown away; because Drink is certainly a Nourisher of the Body, as well as Meats, and the more substantial they both are, the better will the Labourer go through his Work, especially at Harvest; and in large Families the Doctor's Bills have proved the Evil of this bad

The London and Country Brewer Anonymous

Page 117 and the greasing their Hair (so often as they do) with Bears Fat, which is a great Nourisher of the Hair, and causes it to grow very fast.

Indians of North Carolina: Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, Transmitting, in Response to a Senate Resolution of June 30, 1914, a Report on the Condition and Tribal Rights of the Indians of Robeson and Adjoining Counties of North Carolina O. M. McPherson 1915

This huge resistless Nourisher of the Nations -- why was it that it could not reach the People, could not fulfil its destiny, unmarred by all this suffering, unattended by all this misery?

The Pit: A Story of Chicago 1903

Almighty, blood-brother to the earthquake, coeval with the volcano and the whirlwind, that gigantic world-force, that colossal billow, Nourisher of the Nations, was swelling and advancing.

The Pit: A Story of Chicago 1903