"Dieting" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... impossible, as they neither practise nor appreciate what we call training. Size and weight are prized more than activity in the limited arena to which their performances are confined: so, instead of walking down superabundant flesh, they endeavour to increase it, dieting themselves on rice and fish, which is far from productive of any Bantingite result. The illustration of the Great Wrestling Amphitheatre at Yeddo conveys a fair idea of the estimation in which athletic games are held by the Japanese. ...
— Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs • J. M. W. Silver
... February, 1847, from the effects of dieting. A few months after her death her husband offered himself in marriage to Madame Recamier, who rejected him. "Why should we marry?" she said. "There can be no impropriety in my taking care of you ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... Dr. Galbraith, with a twinkle in his bright gray eyes. "The Duke has been seeing visions—determination of blood to the head; and Lady Fulda has been dreaming dreams—fatigue and fasting. Food and rest for her—she will be undisturbed by dreams to-night; and a severe course of dieting for him." ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand |
