The Esquimaux fattens on his diet of blubber and train-oil; the slaves on the sugar-plantations grow fat in the boiling-season, when they live heartily on sugar; the Chinese grow fat on an exclusively rice diet,and rice is chiefly starch.

The Cisingeri gentlemen, attending vpon his diet, fourtie, at fourtie aspers ech of them, and amounteth to sterling by the yeere, three thousand, fiue hundred and foure pounds.

When I was told that we could not land that night, as the storm had now increased, I looked so miserably, as Col afterwards informed me, that what Shakspeare has made the Frenchman say of the English soldiers, when scantily dieted, 'Piteous they will look, like drowned mice!'

Not only did the lad still suffer from his legs, but he had so weak and delicate a stomach that he had to be dieted severely.

Soldiers were carrying their suppers from the cook tentnot at all the bread-and-cigarette diet with which one is always being told the hardy Turk is content.