Sometimes a lessened quantity of easily digested food is all that is needed to effect recovery from an indisposed condition.
— from School and Home Cooking by Carlotta C. (Carlotta Cherryholmes) Greer

Hens and rabbits are eaten chopped up with pounded almonds, raisins, sugar, ginger, herbs dipped in grease, onions and salt; if the mixture is not thick enough, rice flour is added, and the whole coloured with saffron.
— from A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance by J. J. (Jean Jules) Jusserand

He also looked after the Red Cross box, which contained a tourniquet, first-aid kit, the sandwiches for immediate needs, the emergency rations for five days, and the carrier-pigeons.
— from The Spider Web: The Romance of a Flying-Boat War Flight by T. D. Hallam

And first a stain Would startle and offend amid the glory; next, Spot swift succeeded spot, but found me less perplexed By portents; then, as 't were, a sleepiness soft stole Over the stately fane, and shadow sucked the whole Façade into itself, made uniformly earth What was a piece of heaven; till, lo, a second birth, And the veil broke away because of something new Inside, that pushed to gain an outlet, paused in view At last, and proved a growth of stone or brick or wood Which, alien to the aim o' the Builder, somehow stood The test, could satisfy, if not the early race For whom he built, at least our present populace, Who must not bear the blame for what, blamed, proves mishap Of the Artist: his work gone, another fills the gap, Serves the prime purpose so.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

It then seemed impossible not to extend researches from Eastern to Western Asia, and from Asia Minor to Egypt, Greece, Rome and Western Europe.
— from The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Religious, Sociological, and Calendrical Systems by Zelia Nuttall