One day Esau came home from hunting tired and hungry, and smelled the delicious soup of red Lentils that Jacob was making.
"Child's Story of the Bible"
Mary A. Lathbury
Plates containing each three grilled herrings, sprinkled with shorn onions, wetted with a little vinegar; to this add some morsel of boiled prunes, and Lentils swimming in a clear sauce; at these frogal tables I have seen them ranged by the hundred; consuming, without bread, their scant messes, far too moderate for the keenness of their appetite, and the extent of their stomach.
"Freedom Through Disobedience"
C. R. (Chittaranjan) Das
The Professor had found Lentils, and this, with potatoes, or cassava, formed the principal dish, to say nothing of the sago pudding and the residue of the little cakes which just suited Baby's palate.
"The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island"
Roger Thompson Finlay