How To Use provender In A Sentence
- Whistletrigger turns up his patrician nose at all "pessimists" and broadly intimates that the man who hasn't a new silk cady, seventeen pair o 'tailor-made "pants," a silken nightshirt and sufficient provender in his pantry to run a Methodist camp-meeting for a month, would starve to death in a Paradise whose springs run Pomery Sec, and whose trees grew pumpkin pies, hot weinerwurst and pate de foie gras. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
- Long rows of the noblest horses were seen at picquet, prancing and tossing their heads, as impatient of the inactivity to which they were confined, or were heard neighing over the provender, which was spread plentifully before them. Anne of Geierstein
- Like an ass, he wears out his time for provender, and can show an old torn gown, an ensign of his infelicity.
- As the rocket and purslane disappeared, I began to forage Greenmarket for fall provender.
- Because it often happens that the oxherd steals the provender. ' A Short History of English Agriculture
- Running carrier services efficiently involved considerable expenditure on horses together with their equipment and provender.
- The owner attached some provender to a rod, and suspended it over the animal's head. The animal, seeing these viands almost within reach, stepped gayly forward to consume them.
- Many, like asses that wear out their time for provender, are so buried in the minor and immediate tasks of earning a living as to get confounded promptly and permanently with the victims of commercial ambition, whence it comes to pass that, slily and insensibly perverted, nerves frayed and brains dulled, they take to books as sick souls take to drugs. Notable & Quotable
- His windows encompass most of his world; for the rest, there is the weekly Variety that his nephew, Ben, delivers punctually every Wednesday along with a week's provender.
- The children refuse all human food until they are given newly shelled beans, upon which provender they subsist until they learn to eat bread.
