1 They fed their prisoners on what the soldiers in the field were eating, fat pork and dried peas, and on this diet the Yankees died like flies, sometimes a hundred a day.
2 His own taste was in the line of less solid and more highly-seasoned diet; but hunger makes any fare palatable, and there had been times when Mr. Stepney had been reduced to a crust.
3 She took walks, and was sensible about shoes and diet.
4 Be careful about the sugar, and mind the diet I gave you.
5 The fetid closeness of the air, and a famishing diet, united perhaps to some fears of ultimate retribution, had constrained them to surrender at discretion.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story. 6 Sevenpence-halfpenny's worth per week is a good round diet for a child; a great deal may be got for sevenpence-halfpenny, quite enough to overload its stomach, and make it uncomfortable.
7 It had had plenty of room to expand, thanks to the spare diet of the establishment; and perhaps to this circumstance may be attributed his having any ninth birth-day at all.
8 That he should have kept himself in training under such circumstances is remarkable, but his diet was usually of the sparest, and his habits were simple to the verge of austerity.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face 9 Fruit, by the by, was all their diet.
10 She began to assist the water with a slim oatmeal diet and blister-plasters.
11 "Do not forget the diet," said King Hroar.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE DREAM OF LITTLE TUK 12 Morrel bringing a doctor, and the doctor said it was inflammation of the bowels, and ordered him a limited diet.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 27. The Story. 13 They apprehended my breaking loose; that my diet would be very expensive, and might cause a famine.
14 I would exactly set down the several changes in customs, language, fashions of dress, diet, and diversions.
15 This is enough to say upon the subject of my diet, wherewith other travellers fill their books, as if the readers were personally concerned whether we fare well or ill.