How To Use Viand In A Sentence

  • These things do mitigate or disannul that which hath been said of melancholy meats, and make it more tolerable; but to such as are wealthy, live plenteously, at ease, may take their choice, and refrain if they will, these viands are to be forborne, if they be inclined to, or suspect melancholy, as they tender their healths: Anatomy of Melancholy
  • John Arthur was more bland and smiling than Madeline had ever before known him, while as for old Amos, he nearly lost himself in a maze of grins and chuckles, but displayed a very unloverlike appetite, nevertheless, and divided his attention pretty evenly between the beautiful face of Madeline, and the viands on the table. Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter
  • And that euery Christian manne, when he stode in any daungier of death, beyng whole of minde, should receiue it as a waifaring viande, to staye him by the waye: with as good preparation of bodye and soule, as he possibly mighte. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
  • And when we had been served with our simple viands, she sat composedly before us with her hands in her lap, and her eyes turned on us with an appearance of sedate scrutiny no whit the less perplexing because we knew her orbs were but fair clean window-panes shuttered and hasped within. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
  • In their partial suspension of the xerophagy the Greeks maintain the obligation of abstaining from flesh meat, but they countenance the use of such other viands as are ordinarily prohibited when the law is in full force. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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  • A small quantity sprinkled over viands when eaten excites the appetite, and induces healthy digestion. Times, Sunday Times
  • Stood there for a while watching him eat, and wondering whether to give him my viands as well, so his meal would have some flavor.
  • The viands were the choicest of their several kinds, and perfectly prepared; the wines were of rare vintages -- at least so Monroe asserted (I was no judge of wines, and contented myself with a single glass of sherry taken with my soup); and the table appointments were on a par with the food and the sumptuous character of the apartment in which the meal was served. The First Mate The Story of a Strange Cruise
  • The egg basket would be over along the wall on a side table packed with choice viands purchased from reputable shops.
  • The soldiers, however, had some right to be in temporary possession, since the viands were their own. On the Heels of De Wet
  • Albert packed up his viands and came too, perhaps little comprehending. Locust Valley Breakdown
  • Ils cherchaient 810 euros sur 9 mois pour acheter du bétail et ainsi produire du fromage, de la viande et probablement faciliter les activités agricoles. Global Voices in English » Can social media help make microfinance sustainable?
  • In that country in the good towns is a good custom: for whoso will make a feast to any of his friends, there be certain inns in every good town, and he that will make the feast will say to the hosteler, array for me tomorrow a good dinner for so many folk, and telleth him the number, and deviseth him the viands; and he saith also, thus much I will dispend and no more. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
  • Besides a rack for kitchen utensils, there is only a stand on which are six large brown dishes with food for sale — salt shell-fish, in a black liquid, dried trout impaled on sticks, sea slugs in soy, a paste made of pounded roots, and green cakes made of the slimy river confervae, pressed and dried — all ill-favoured and unsavoury viands. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
  • Breakfast is served until noon, but sleepyheads run the risk of missing the lamb chops viande, which seem to sell out early.
  • The word "bushmeat" is a word-for-word translation or calque of the French phrase viande de brousse. Week in Words
  • Their menus are pretentions and their viands all taste alike. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Hunger could no longer be a motive, for Greek slaves supplied them with exquisite viands at the slightest nod.
  • Any one who knows the rudiments of cookery, will recognize that with this system no viand can have any particular flavor, the partridges having a taste of their neighbor the roast beef, which in turn suggests the plum pudding it has been "chumming" with. Worldly Ways and Byways
  • Goar (Euchologium, Venice, 1730, 175) says that the Greeks of his day were allowed by an unwritten law to eat fish, eggs, snails, and such-like viands on xerophagy days. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
  • 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.
  • Ceci est facilement une source de tensions lorsque vient le moment fatidique si tous les convives n'ont pas des habitudes de consommation viande, alcool et des budgets similaires. Against Splitting The Bill — Climb to the Stars
  • George did full justice thereto, as well as to the more solid viands. The Daisy Chain
  • At that time he preferred serving food to being a viand for those who gormandized oddities. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
  • Even the catering crew's kept behind a swinging door, save for carefully timed replenishment of viands.
  • We fed at the same times, on the same kind of viands, in the same dull manner, and with the same observances. American Notes for General Circulation
  • 'By us sublunary thy will be done ... with viands meet thy humble creatures bless.' The Reverend D Hughes, MA, Poems on Various Subjects in English and Latin (1865)
  • He eats appreciatively after the manner of a _bon vivant; _ he uses his napkin gently and frequently; he glances blandly at the surroundings; watching him, you would suppose the viands were the choicest of the season, exquisitely prepared, while, in reality, they are poor and unsubstantial stuff, the refuse, perhaps, of better restaurants. Fifth Avenue
  • Pour leur viande, ils la mangent crue, s閏h閑 au soleil. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • In the kitchen there were three fires blazing, stacks of _Bratwurst_ on the tables, great kettles for the sour-krout and potatoes, and eggs, lettuce, and other finer viands, for the dignitaries, on the shelves. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867
  • Est viande merveilleusement saine, principalement en esté, et fort plaisante, nourrist bien et grandement, refraîche le foye et reprimist la colère. Savoring The Past
  • Il envoya," says Pasquin "ce fin ragout de champignons au Chancelier Jeffreys, prisonnier dans la Tour, qui les trouva du meme goust, et du mmee assaisonnement que furent les derniers dont Agrippine regala le bon-homme Claudius son epoux, et que Neron appella depuis la viande des Dieux. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3
  • Then we sat down to converse and I hung my head earthwards in bashfulness, but she delayed not long ere she set before me a tray of the most exquisite viands, marinated meats, fritters soaked in bee’s536 honeys and chickens stuffed with sugar and pistachio nuts, whereof we ate till we were satisfied. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Translated from French by Colleen Creegan, Kiva Volunteer jeune homme homme de 45 ans celibataire et pere de 3 enfants allant de 15 ans a 5 ans, a commence cette activite depuis 10 ans avec un seul carton de viande arriere; aujourd'hui il vend 12 a 13 cartons par semaines de differents produits de sa boucherie, il a recette journaliere de 50.000f a 70.000f par jour. Kiva Loans
  • The doctor was a stickler for quality as well as quantity; the memory of his claret and beccafico days still clung to him, like the scent of the roses to Tom Moore's broken gallipot: he was curious in condiments, and whilst devouring, grumbled at the unseasoned viands of Tahiti. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
  • Plain English" such a one will call his desideratum, as one might call the viands on a New Cut barrow Mankind in the Making
  • Pendant ce temps on attachoit au seigneur une serviette en soie; on pla鏾it devant lui une pi鑓e de cuir rouge, ronde et mince, parce que leur coutume est de ne manger que sur des nappes de cuir; puis on lui apporta de la viande cuite, sur deux plats dor閟. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • Ils cherchaient 810 euros sur 9 mois pour acheter du bétail et ainsi produire du fromage, de la viande et probablement faciliter les activités agricoles. Global Voices in English » Can social media help make microfinance sustainable?
  • For those who prefer their tropics oriental, there is the blistering, chili-steeped Thai Beef Salad, with its conflagrant viands sacrificed atop a ziggurat of mixed lettuce, peppers, and cucumber in rather too bitter peanut-lime dressing.
  • For we call viands and ointments fine; and we say we have finely dined, when we have been splendidly entertained. Symposiacs
  • Great seafood, viands, fruit and vegetables, complemented with some of the world's best wines, bring an excellent meal well within Bangkok prices at around Baht 500-600.
  • At the upper end rose a throne of gold whereon sat a damsel, whose face was like the moon, arrayed in royal raiment and beautified as she were a bride on the night of her displaying; and at the foot of the throne was a table of forty trays spread with golden and silvern dishes full of dainty viands. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Seeing the leach the King rose to him in honour and seated him by his side; then the food trays furnished with the daintiest viands were brought and the physician ate with the King, nor did he cease companying him all that day. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • From the whole rose that blended odour of viands, of flowers, of stuff's, of toilet perfumes, which is the characteristic expression of, all social festivities, and which exhilarates or depresses - according as one is new or old to it.
  • The word "bushmeat" is a word-for-word translation or calque of the French phrase viande de brousse. Week in Words
  • When in the mood for down-home diner - Viand Café, the local diner, is a block away as is the venerable St. Ambreous, one of the best old world coffee's and homemade ice creams in town, not to mention its homey food like spaghetti Bolognese and veal piccata. Suzanne Aaronson: What's Worth It: The Mark Hotel, NYC
  • Striding towards the banquet-table with his flouncing companion at his side, Crockett secured a large delftware platter and commenced to fill it with a prodigious quantity of viands. Nevermore
  • Every mile of the road heightens the flavor of the viands we expect at the end of it.
  • “Plain English” such a one will call his desideratum, as one might call the viands on a Mankind in the Making
  • Lurking beneath the rich and tempting viands were invisible spirits of evil, which filled the self-deluded gormandizer with aches and pains, passions uncontrollable, fierce tempers, dyspepsia, rheumatism, lumbago, and gout, and of these the Lloyds had a full share. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Written by Himself. His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time, Including His Connection with the Anti-slavery Movement; His Labors in Great Britain as Well as in
  • The fork did much for the simplification and advancement of culinary art by encouraging the taste for solid viands and natural flavors. Setting the Table | Edwardian Promenade
  • The expression is not, "Give a share to one another," for all the viands brought to the feast were common property, and, therefore, they should "tarry" till all were met to partake together of the common feast of fellowship Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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