"Ichthyophagous" Quotes from Famous Books
... of diet, they have also their observances. All Poor-Slaves are Rhizophagous (or Root-eaters); a few are Ichthyophagous, and use Salted Herrings: other animal food they abstain from; except indeed, with perhaps some strange inverted fragment of a Brahminical feeling, such animals as die a natural death. Their universal sustenance is ... — Sartor Resartus - The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh • Thomas Carlyle |