If you eat a meal consisting of a moderate quantity of lean meat, a very little bread, a heaping dish of turnip greens, and a big slice of watermelon, you will feel fully satisfied, yet you will not have taken in one-third the calory value that you would at an ordinary meal with Gravies and dressings and dessert.
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair
If those cooks of the soul had any skill, if they served their clients with delicate meats, theological essences, Gravies of prayer, concentrated sauces of ideas, they would vegetate misunderstood by their flocks.
"En Route"
J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
Some people, who like thick Gravies, shake in a little flour into the spider, before pouring in the boiling water.
"The American Frugal Housewife"
Lydia M. Child