four-meals-a-day

Updated: May 16, 2025

Supposing you were to try deserting your perennially youthful bride the Great Adventure, or the High Romance, or the New Jerusalem, or whatsoever you call her. Supposing you settle down with an earthly bride say, a sweet-and-twenty one! Supposing you had to toe the line of four-meals-a-day in a country vicarage. You would know your age then. Hood looked uninterested and aloof.

Arthur Shearly Cripps - Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales

But where is the man that can live without dining?" Thus saith the poet, and forthwith turns the world over into the hands of the cook. And into what better hands could you fall? To you, my fat, jolly, four-meals-a-day friend, Mr. Gourmand, but more especially to you, my somber, lean, dyspeptic, two-meals-a-day friend, Mr. Grumbler, the cook is indeed a valuable friend.

Various - Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885