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Dieted for weeks on pulse and water, he so far recovered that to friends outside his family but little change in him was visible.

From Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft by Scott, Walter, Sir

Dieted into health, he went to Scotland with a new-found friend, William Macdonald Macdonald of Crossmount.

From The Life of John Ruskin by Collingwood, W. G. (William Gershom)

Add a deleted line: Dieted with gourd water.568 Oh! the furies!

From Philip Massinger by Cruickshank, A. H.