Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...long sharp spike. This served him as a defensive weapon, for the old man was very much afraid of robbers. On the street he always wore the same cap and red neckerchief which served him in his last years, and in his pockets he carried crumbs with which to feed birds, of which he was very fond. If he had anything to carry, were it a pound of sugar from the grocery, white grapes for his favorite chickens, or his clean linen, it was always wrapped in a blue and white checked handkerchief of huge dimensions...
...appearance and habits, was a veritable type of the antique. Gray and hirsute, his dark complexion and piercing eyes gave him a weird aspect, and he passed his days and nights in one corner of a college dormitory in lone communion with the spiders which he was wont to feed and cherish, and the tomes in which the lore of old Hellas was entombed, many of whose graces and beauties were visible to no eye within the academic shades as they were to his. Reserved and uncommunicative as a recluse, he had a few chosen friends with whom he loved...
...complaint about the condition of the students in the Russian universities is today as well founded as ever. One or two universities absorb the few conspicuous men of science there are; the other universities are content with luminaries of the second rank; the intermediate schools feed on half-culture, and the elementary schools on the wisdom of drill-sergeants. Thus the boy enters the university with mere scraps of knowledge, acquired with the last remnant of his father's money. The poor village priest has sacrificed his all in order to secure to his son a position in life better...
...Catholic schools of the country are to feed the colleges and seminaries, and these in turn the university. It is intended that students shall not be admitted to the university without passing a preliminary examination which shall show that they are fitted by knowledge already acquired to enter on the higher course. Such an institution, it is hoped, must give Catholics quite a new standing in the intellectual life of the country...
With those who feed their weekly appetite...