The rootstock contains a large quantity of starch which has been utilized for food in the periods of famine which have desolated India and Egypt.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

'To ask you if you'll have another rasher would be unmeaning flattery, for it would make you thirsty all day.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Well, it seems that there are lots of orchids known the flower of which cannot possibly be used for fertilisation in that way.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Rain water is purest, so that it fall not down in great drops, and be used forthwith, for it quickly putrefies.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The same spirit enters into the social circle, and breaks up families: father is arrayed against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against mother; and brother against brother: it presides triumphant at the assemblies of the "Peace Society," and spreads confusion, discord, and division there.
— from The Government of God by John Taylor

To dream that your child has the croup, denotes slight illness, but useless fear for its safety.
— from Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What's in a Dream A Scientific and Practical Exposition by Gustavus Hindman Miller

The exploration of the Kesserloch cavern, at Thaingen, Baden, showed that the horse had been used for food in the Magdalenian period.
— from Byways in British Archaeology by Walter Johnson

There is, no doubt, a great deal of the cruelty of boys which is experimental rather than malicious—the practice of blowing up frogs, for instance.
— from The Book of This and That by Robert Lynd

Altogether the fire of the enemy had injured us much, both in the modes that I have stated, and also by exhausting our ammunition and fouling our guns, so as to render our batteries unfit for further immediate use.
— from The Battle of Gettysburg by Franklin Aretas Haskell

One thing, however, is clear, that the part which is episodical, and has least interest, should be unravelled first; for if the principal interest be exhausted, the subsidiary intrigue drags on heavily.
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. I by John Colin Dunlop

Salt and pepper should be added to taste, and a sprig of mint may be used for flavouring if liked.
— from New Vegetarian Dishes by Mrs. Bowdich

Bees manifest the greatest reluctance in leaving the drawer, when young brood are removed in it, which never occurs, except in such drawers as have been used for feeding in the winter or early in the spring.
— from A Manual or an Easy Method of Managing Bees by John M. (John Moseley) Weeks

Among the animals which may be used for food is mentioned one which in our version is rendered Chamois.
— from Bible Animals; Being a Description of Every Living Creature Mentioned in the Scripture, from the Ape to the Coral. by J. G. (John George) Wood

No boat under fourteen feet in length is allowed to take passengers from the pier to the roads, or from the roads to the pier; under a penalty of 14 livres tournois for each passenger.
— from Guernsey Pictorial Directory and Stranger's Guide Embellished with Numerous Wood-cuts by Bellamy, Thomas, of Guernsey