How To Use Victual In A Sentence
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When like me you have chosen the tough and rugged regime of living in a lighthouse for two nights, you will know that getting your daily victuals can be a demanding task.
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Withal she bought them three good horses and another sumpter-horse; which last was loaded with sundry wares that she deemed that she needed, and with victual.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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There are no more victuals for the pig.
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As for those limitations of the "feminine mind" which render her unfit to consider the victuallage of a nation, or the justice of a tax on sugar; it hardly seems as if the charge need be taken seriously.
The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture
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The older travellers were certainly not blasés; they seemed to find pleasure and beauty wherever they looked: Ca da Mosto (1455), visiting the Senegal, detected in this graveolent substance, fit only for wheel-axles, a threefold property, that of smelling like violets, of tasting like oil of olives, and tinging victuals like saffron, with a colour still finer.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2
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He also noted that if the ‘chief victualler and the chief cook got on well the quality was good’.
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And then we shall not be sorry because we cannot get a Gairfowl to stuff, much less find gairfowl enough to drive them into stone pens and slaughter them, as the old Norsemen did, or drive them on board along a plank till the ship was victualled with them, as the old English and French rovers used to do, of whom dear old
The Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
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By this time it was past three of the clocke, and they vnladed their houses nere vnto a certain water: And there came vnto vs his interpreter, who being aduertised by vs that wee were neuer there before, demanded some of our victuals, and we yeelded vnto his request.
The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.
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About sixty or seventy horse and foot," said the old dame; "but, ewhow! they are puirly armed, and warse fended wi 'victual.
Old Mortality, Complete
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The Native Americans present at the origination of modern land titles at the root of all deeds in Manhattan today thought they were renting the island to people who intended to stay a season to revictual their ships and leave.
D.C. Rental Boom a Bust? - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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Yet the building seemed ancient and strong, a part of the roof was battlemented, and the walls were of great thickness; lastly, I observed, with some unpleasant sensations, that the windows of my chamber had been lately secured with iron stanchions, and that the servants who brought me victuals, or visited my apartment to render other menial offices, always locked the door when they retired.
Redgauntlet
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Perhaps there is some microscopic animalcule of which Medicine and Science are not yet aware which invaded the tins during transit or even at Goldner's victualling factory.
The Terror
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The word comprehended all that was delivered or dispensed by the lord to his underlings or domestics -- money, victuals, wine, garments, fuel, and lights; but no doubt it was employed more particularly of external and distinctive garb.
The Customs of Old England
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I was delighted with the country victualler terrine that came with two slices of fresh toast and mixed salad leaves.
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To beg for votes, as if they were alms or broken victuals, is a form of mendicancy which is incompatible with common self-respect, and yet it is a self-abasement which thirty years ago custom imperatively demanded.
Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography
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During the middle third the fleet could hug the coast and put in to revictual in places like Croton and Tarentum and Brundisium, where the tale would be that they were going to put down trouble in Asia Minor — a tale the troops themselves had been given to believe.
The Grass Crown
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Coffee and chocolate were already made hot; cream and new-laid eggs were added to the treat, and M. Emanuel, always generous, would have given a large order for "jambon" and "confitures" in addition, but that some of us, who presumed perhaps upon our influence, insisted that it would be a most reckless waste of victual.
Villette
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He lives by his wits, playing tricks on a niggardly old victualler and other gullible occupants of the camp, and gets whipped for his pains.
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That morning he had bought a whole barrel of Gunpowder Pepper from one of the human victuallers.
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We looked for our share of the victuals, but they told me old bl -- bl "---- Again he hesitated, evidently afraid that some" unsonsy "thing was behind him.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)
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The kitchen'll be turning out seasonal, elevated tavern victuals including a trio of rotating savory pies e.g., lamb & rosemary, curried chicken; hare/wood pigeon/venison-filled Poacher's Soup; Lancashire hot pots w/ braised lamb shoulder; and, sided by a savoy cabbage & wild mushroom casserole, a roasted Berkshire rack, which can happen pretty quickly considering how pale everyone is there.
Thrillist: Jones Wood Foundry: A Pub With Proprietary Beer and Meat Pies
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The profits from these activities provided work for an endless array of builders, carriage-makers, tailors, seamstresses, domestic servants, cab-drivers, and victuallers.
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And then we shall not be sorry because we cannot get a Gairfowl to stuff, much less find gairfowl enough to drive them into stone pens and slaughter them, as the old Norsemen did, or drive them on board along a plank till the ship was victualled with them, as the old English and French rovers used to do, of whom dear old Hakluyt tells: but we shall remember what Mr. Tennyson says: how
The Water Babies
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It drifted with them at the will of the winds and the waves, night and day a great while, till their victual was spent and they saw themselves shent and were reduced to extreme hunger and thirst and exhaustion, when behold, suddenly they sighted an island from afar and the breezes wafted them on, till they came thither.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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In fact, God had often chastised them for their idolatry (see Jud 2: 14); but it is the curse of impiety not to perceive the hand of God in calamities. victuals -- Men cast away the bread of the soul for the bread that perisheth (De 8: 3; Joh 6: 27).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Ibi habetur in leui precio copia rerum omnium, et præcipuè victualium: vnum genus est ibi serpentum in abundantia quod manducant ad omne conuiuium, et nisi pro finali ferculo ministraretur de illis serpentibus, conuiuium quàm modicum diceretur.
The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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And as every ‘victualer’ knows, you will certainly need a nifty name for your tacky tavern besides, ‘Stickey Wicket Pub’, ‘Waddling Dog’ or ‘Toad-in-the-Hole’ (which are already taken).
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I declined the victuals although others partook of cheese, crackers and fruit cake.
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During that time she only ate mild herbs and light victuals.
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Now who is that so base and ungrateful as to rise from a table where such delicious victuals are served and "backbite" the neighbor who prepares it?
" Eagle Clippings " by Jack Thorne, Newspaper Correspondent and Story Teller, A Collection of His Writings to Various Newspapers
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So much he told the seekers in few words; and then while they grovelled on the earth and wept for pure joy, whereas the sun was down and it was beginning to grow dusk, he went and looked around soberly to see if he might find water and any kind of victual; and presently a little down the hillside he came upon a place where a spring came gushing up out of the earth and ran down toward the plain; and about it was green grass growing plentifully, and a little thicket of bramble and wilding fruit-trees.
The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men
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Experienced merchants, men unafraid of risk and who commanded sufficient capital to acquire, arm, and victual a strong vessel, were as necessary to successful cruises as skilled captains, whose reputations could attract large crews.
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They were to get the same bread rations as active soldiers, plus a specified daily pay and an opportunity to buy victuals if a commissary was not providing the same.
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Indeed he was never out of Europe, apart from a two-day trip to Tunis during the Second World War to victual the British Eighth Army that had just defeated Rommel.
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Feeling a bit hungry from my long cruise, however, I begged off and looked for some victuals.
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As a third generation licensed victualler (now retired) I have been following the saga of the Wheatley Hotel with a mixture of amusement and incredulity.
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She was a screw propeller of eight hundred tons, a fast sailer, and the very vessel that had been sent out to the polar regions, to revictual the last expedition of Sir James Ross.
Five Weeks in a Balloon
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Forth they rode then through the frank and up on to the shepherd country, and whereas their horses were of the best, and they had no sumpter-beast with them till they came to Upham, where they must needs have victual, they made but five days of it to the place where the road turned aside from the country of Mostwyke.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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Candide followed the old woman, though without taking courage, to a decayed house, where she gave him a pot of pomatum to anoint his sores, showed him a very neat bed, with a suit of clothes hanging by it; and set victuals and drink before him.
Candide
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And they go with a great pot made of wood or fine earth, and couered, tied with a broad girdle vpon their shoulder, which cometh vnder their arme, wherewith they go to begge their victuals which they eate, which is rice, fish, and herbs.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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As was the custom at the time, he went to the house of the poet of Niall to ask for victuals for the journey.
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Fust thing is a new set of teeth, -- you done gummed yourself into dyspepsy and gineral cantankerousness, -- and then I 'm sot on taking you to my house to visit a month and eat good victuals and git your stummick opened up whar it done growed together, and your mind unj'inted, and your sperrits limbered similar.'
Sight to the Blind
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The first-fruits of these green fields were now ripe, and "sufficient to revictual the whole fleet with provisions and fruits.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
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Child made his money victualling the navy and lived at Portsmouth before developing a great estate at Wanstead in Essex.
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For example, working out the victualling requirements (a mariner's term for food), noting the restricted galley facilities, passage planning, navigation, radio communications and, of course, sailing the yacht.
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Day or at any other time, behaves rudely or indecently within the walls of any house of public worship; wilfully interrupts or disturbs any assembly for public worship within the place of such assembly or out of it "; for one" who on the Lord's Day, keeps open his shop, workhouse, warehouse or place of business on that day, except works of necessity or charity "; for an innholder or victualler who," on the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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Shall we go sate my appetite for perishable victuals, my ever-loving husband?
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The other was always held up to us as a model because she married a Government labourer in the Deptford victualling yard, and kept his room and the three children neat and tidy on eighteen shillings a week - until he took to drink.
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They have provided a hundred dollar fine for every innholder or victualler who keeps, or "suffers to be kept," on his premises, any implements "used in gaming," or which may be used for
Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 6
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And all this while they furnished them and garnished them of good men of arms, and victual, and of all manner of habiliment that pretendeth to the war, to avenge them for the battle of Bedegraine, as it telleth in the book of adventures following.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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In the case of Thomas le Rente this may have been a way of increasing trade stock, for Thomas was already involved in the victualling trade (notably fishing) when he first appears in the 1280s.
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So I stowed, in waterproof containers, in the back of my canoe, victuals and wine and a picnic blanket and other such finery.
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Why did not he by testament leave them, at least, some jolly lumps and cantles of substantial meat, a parcel of cheek-puffing victuals, and a little belly-timber and provision for the guts of these poor folks, who have nothing but their life in this world?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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That morning he had bought a whole barrel of Gunpowder Pepper from one of the human victuallers.
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You are likewise to abstain from beans, from the preak, by some called the polyp, as also from coleworts, cabbage, and all other such like windy victuals, which may endanger the troubling of your brains and the dimming or casting a kind of mist over your animal spirits.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Alongside commercial directories, they allow one to be much more specific about the specialisation of manufacturers and retailers classified as for example victuallers, confectioners, engineers or ironmongers.
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He sells his questions by the dozen to licensed victuallers and is compiling an interactive quiz for the internet and CD-rom.
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In verray deid we unfeinzeitlie repent, that befoir this we tuik nott better ordour that thir murtheraris and oppressouris, quham sche pretendis to nureise, for oure destructioun, had not bene disapointit of that greit provisioun of victuallis quhilk sche and thay have gadderit, to the greit hurt of the haill cuntrey.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
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He belches And suck my thumping good Stock Exchange cigar while I read the Licensed Victualler's Gazette .
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For example, as Wright states, ‘in a peculiar use of gender-neutral language, the legislation consistently refers to ‘he’ or ‘she’ and ‘his’ and ‘her’ when speaking of the licensed victualler’.
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Of the remaining half, only three were designated as labourers; the rest were artisans such as bakers, grocers, tailors, and victuallers.
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Good victuals and ale to any man but a slave master.
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You had musty victual, and he hath holp to eat it: he is a very valiant trencherman; he hath an excellent stomach.
Much Ado About Nothing
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The old shop was once a butcher's shop when the Henaghan family were the town's leading victuallers.
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The town's licensed victuallers said most districts had agreed to 10.30 ‘last orders’ especially in tourist areas and it would be a great boost for trippers.
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In ista ciuitate sunt 360. pontes lapidei pulchriores quàm vnquam viderim, et benè inhabitatur, et nauigium maxinium habet, et copiam omnium victualium et aliorum bonorum.
The Journal of Friar Odoric
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All went well to begin with, as he managed to intercept and to capture a convoy of Spanish ships sent to revictual the place, and had he been content to wait he might have counted with certainty on reducing the garrison by starvation, as it depended on this very convoy for its supplies.
Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean
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The quality of his results and their importance in victualling the French navy were recognised with a prize of 12,000 francs, on condition that Appert published his method - which he did in 1810.
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To demonstrate to the Italians that Rome can operate behind enemy lines and take the fruits of Italian soil to revictual places like Aesernia.
The Grass Crown
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In ea sunt palatia integra non habitata, tamen multis victualibus abundat.
The Journal of Friar Odoric
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Derek Haworth, former chairman of the licensed victuallers association, said: ‘We already have to pay both council and business tax?’
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Part of the building became a licensed premises in 1729 when William Smith, victualler, and his wife Mary, purchased a garden at the rear of their home and erected a brewhouse on the site.
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Two-thirds of the London sample were employed in the homes of artisans, publicans and victuallers.
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I remained calm, though, because he would not go far without me, and I had plenty water and victuals to keep me going for some way yet.
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So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a reward, and let him go.
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After we had fed, we drew ourselves back to our boats upon the river, and there came to us all the lords of the country, with all such kind of victual as the place yielded, and with their delicate wine of pinas, and with abundance of hens and other provisions, and of those stones which we call spleen-stones.
The Discovery of Guiana. Paras. 50-102
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He sells his questions by the dozen to licensed victuallers and is compiling an interactive quiz for the internet and CD-rom.
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As early as 1 November 1858 Matthew and Robert Faulkner, who were licenced victuallers and cordial manufacturers in Adelaide, had to appear in the Court of Insolvency.
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If you equate vegetarian food with starch, stodge, and more starch, you'll be delighted to learn there's a restaurant in Singapore free of associations with vegetarian victuals and 1970s communes.
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They were prearranged to take in the same victuals as animals like the elephant, deer and rabbit.
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Alongside commercial directories, they allow one to be much more specific about the specialisation of manufacturers and retailers classified as for example victuallers, confectioners, engineers or ironmongers.
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A whole new industry was created and the steep sides of the Douro valley terraced and planted to victual the English shires.
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The island prospered as thousands of homeward-bound vessels anchored in the roadstead in a year, staying for considerable periods, refitting and revictualling.
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Rohan went with others to enter a church where the peasants were retreated, thinking to get victuals by love or by forces; but he got the worst of it, as they all did, and came back with seven sword wounds on the head, the least of which penetrated to the inner table of the skull; and he had four other wounds upon the arms, and one on the right shoulder, which cut more than half of the bladebone.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
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I did not call her unfeeling long, for I perceived she was in purgatory throughout the day, and wearying to find an opportunity of getting by herself, or paying a visit to Heathcliff, who had been locked up by the master, as I discovered, on endeavouring to introduce to him a private mess of victuals.
Wuthering Heights
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As a third generation licensed victualler (now retired) I have been following the saga of the Wheatley Hotel with a mixture of amusement and incredulity.
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So she arose and served up to him whatso remained of meat and sweetmeat and he fell to morselling [FN#164] them with mouthfuls and soothing them with soft words till they had their sufficiency of victual, after which she, the mother-in - law, removed the tray.
Arabian nights. English
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The bursar hated Conan, ever since the time when the Cimmerian caught him taking extra servings of victuals from the mess hall - sustenance intended for warriors, not scribblers.
Archive 2010-02-01
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Leastways he'll be gone to see feyther, and he'll need comfort most on all, in a fremd place -- in Bridewell -- and niver a morsel of victual or a piece o 'money.'
Sylvia's Lovers — Complete
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Derek Haworth, former chairman of the licensed victuallers association, said: ‘We already have to pay both council and business tax?’
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Another three months passed, then the Victualling Board asked for cinder ashes from the smitheries in the dockyards at Deptford and Woolwich to mix with ground lime and ballast for repair work, but none of this seems to have worked, as in March 1813 the Victualling Board asked for the Navy Board's surveyor of buildings to make an inspection and give his opinion on the necessary repairs.
Archive 2008-10-01
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There would be victualling invoices and the same for bunker fuel and oil, paint, rope and stores.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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(1890 – 1904, Vol. 3, p. 278) John Stephen Farmer and W.E. Henley gave “manablins, subs. (old) — broken victuals, also manavilins” and compare it with the French arlequin, – ine and le bijou.
Manavalums
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The vessel victualled before the long voyage
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Republicans, to touch up the Bonapartists a bit, and revictual the
The Magic Skin
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Poor Frog," says he, "is in hard circumstances, he has a numerous family, and lives from hand to mouth; his children don't eat a bit of good victuals from one year's end to the other, but live upon salt herring, sour curd, and borecole.
History of John Bull
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Bakers, victuallers, taverners, hostelers, and sometimes attorneys were disqualified from election as mayor or bailiff in the fifteenth century.
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He also noted that if the ‘chief victualler and the chief cook got on well the quality was good’.
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Mrs Flodge shouted a threat about having the inn's victualling licence taken away.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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Next I had to fling some victuals into the sucking void of self-digesting agony that was my stomach.
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A committee has been formed to revictual the town, and is working night and day.
A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium
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In ista ciuitate sunt 360. pontes lapidei pulchriores quàm vnquam viderim, et benè inhabitatur, et nauigium maxinium habet, et copiam omnium victualium et aliorum bonorum.
The Journal of Friar Odoric
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Saint Nicholas in Russia, being furnished with all things expedient for such a discouerie, and with a new supply of victuals at his arriuall there, and also to hire into his companie certaine Russes best knowen vnto himselfe, who can perfectly speake the Samoeds language, and are acquainted with the riuer of Ob, as hauing frequented those places yeere by yeere.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Of the remaining half, only three were designated as labourers; the rest were artisans such as bakers, grocers, tailors, and victuallers.
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The profits from these activities provided work for an endless array of builders, carriage-makers, tailors, seamstresses, domestic servants, cab-drivers, and victuallers.
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And then I remembered the cider in my ice-chest, and after victuals and a brief respite, the evening started.
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A GAA county development officer, the former victualler surprised many when leaving the meat trade for a coaching role.
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Anyway, one evening as we were manducating our victuals at a local eatery, my sweet and bashful convent girl asked me if I thought she looked fat.
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Arachu vitta sambar - Sheela from Delectable Victuals
RCI ~ TAMIL CUISINE ~ ROUNDUP
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The youth returned his greeting and, going into the house, brought out two platters, one full of soured milk and the other of brewis swimming in clarified butter; and he set the platter before Kanmakan, saying “Favour us by eating of our victual.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Ships bound for India and the east, unable to use the Suez Canal, had to sail via the Cape, and were serviced and victualled at West African ports.
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Well, honest Murdoch, I take it on me to say, thou deservest to be upper-warden, since thou showest thyself twenty times better acquainted with the way of victualling honest gentlemen that are under misfortune, than thy principal.
A Legend of Montrose
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This was the principal site for retailing victuals and other necessaries.
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A GAA county development officer, the former victualler surprised many when leaving the meat trade for a coaching role.
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As Mr. Delancey had never shown any interest in the matter of their board, they still continued to "victual," as Wilkins called it, at the restaurant, and sleep at the store.
The Brother Clerks A Tale of New-Orleans
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I found the poor men on board almost in a tumult to get the victuals out of the boiler before it was ready; but my mate observed his orders, and kept a good guard at the cook-room door, and the man he placed there, after using all possible persuasion to have patience, kept them off by force; however, he caused some biscuit-cakes to be dipped in the pot, and softened with the liquor of the meat, which they called brewis, and gave them every one some to stay their stomachs, and told them it was for their own safety that he was obliged to give them but little at a time.
The Further Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe
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And a new smooth shovelboard, whereon no victuals ne'er stood;
English Songs and Ballads
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Ma always made good food, if the atmosphere at the table wasn't the best, the victuals were always top notch…
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Bangkok's so awash in quality victuals, it's tough to stand out from the pack.
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The captain and his mate enjoyed their supper, while Carne in the distance bore the pangs of a malady called bulimus, that is to say, a giant's ravening for victuals, without a babe's power of receiving them.
Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War
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John Oxenham, in the _Bear_ frigate, could sail "Eastwards towards Tolu, to see what store of victuals would come athwart his halse.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
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Part of the building became a licensed premises in 1729 when William Smith, victualler, and his wife Mary, purchased a garden at the rear of their home and erected a brewhouse on the site.
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In February 1342 he and William were instructed to sell all victuals purveyed by them.
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The nexte towne to the westwarde is called Coro, which hath greate plentie of golde and victualls.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II.
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The washing runs away with all the difference in wages, and their consumption of victual is much the same.
Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Next were victual brought unto her of broth and venison, and good wine and cates and strawberries; and she was not so famished but she might eat and drink with a good will.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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However, refreshment was at hand, which we were quite in condition to appreciate, for we will back a day's kangarooing against any other sport, for giving a zest both to victuals and drink.
Forest & Frontiers
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The Earl of Argyle’s service, in conducting to the surrender of the insolent and wicked race and name of MacGregor, notorious common malefactors, and in the inbringing of MacGregor, with a great many of the leading men of the clan, worthily executed to death for their offences, is thankfully acknowledged by an Act of Parliament, 1607, chap. 16, and rewarded with a grant of twenty chalders of victual out of the lands of
Rob Roy
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Bakers, victuallers, taverners, hostelers, and sometimes attorneys were disqualified from election as mayor or bailiff in the fifteenth century.
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Her tocher was a mere thirty chalders of victual from the Oliphant estates.
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The licensed victuallers recently held their annual banquet, whilst their ‘better halves’ and daughters were left out ‘again’.
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Concerted action among the licensed victuallers themselves affords the most reasonable prospect of breaking down the objectionable practice, and many of them at their meeting a week ago showed a willingness to consent.
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We may, if we choose, shift the boundaries between the two, since the boundaries are not immutable, and many things, such as navy victualling, can be done by either system.
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And the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the mouth of The Lord.
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You had musty victual, and he hath holp to eat it: he is a very valiant trencherman; he hath an excellent stomach.
Much Ado About Nothing
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So as when Vides understood of Berreo and that he had made entrance into that territory, and foregone his desire and hope, it was verily thought that Vides practised with Morequito to hinder and disturb Berreo in all he could, and not to suffer him to enter through his seignory, nor any of his companies; neither to victual, nor guide them in any sort.
The Discovery of Guiana. Paras. 1-49
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On day seven the hiking group is met by a re-supply group at Bannerman's Pass and among those in the revictualling group is Ida de Villiers, who had buddied with Jenny on two previous traverses.
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Now when my son saw that I separated them, he secretly built this souterrain and furnished it and transported to it victuals, even as thou seest; and, when I had gone out a-sporting, came here with his sister and hid from me.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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If a man were sick and obliged to stay within, no victuals for him that day.
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This challenge they naysaid in few words, for the town was well victualled and manned.
The Sundering Flood
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Then consider what victual or esculent things there are, which grow speedily, and within the year; as parsnips, carrots, turnips, onions, radish, artichokes of Hierusalem, maize, and the like.
The Essays
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'We could not now take time for further search and consideration,' one passenger wrote, 'our victuals being much spent, especially our beere.'
Happy End Of Prohibition Day
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We all had a good time and there were plenty of burgers, hot dogs and every kind of victual for everyone.
GAMING NEWS: "The Next War" Session Two! (3 July 2005)
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In fact, the costs of war on two fronts - and the switching of expensive Cinque Ports shipping and victualling up and down the east coast - were to become in future penal for an English monarchy challenged in Parliament by a powerful baronage.
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In London: ‘In 1618 the city fathers complained that the multitude of alehouses and victualing houses within this city increasing daily are grown so dangerous and enormous as it is high time to suppress the number of them’.
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I was delighted with the country victualler terrine that came with two slices of fresh toast and mixed salad leaves.
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Now we had picked up on the beach some small matter of victual from the wreck and husbanded it carefully, eating but once every day or two, in our fear lest it should fail us and we die miserably of famine or affright.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Gloucester as well as Theocritus and Horace; he is seriously perturbed at the decline of agriculture in Devonshire; in spite of the fertility of the soil, he says, it yields insufficience of bread, beer, and victual, to feed itself, for which the country has to have recourse to
Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland
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Where we know the occupations of their inhabitants, the predominance of the victualling trades and of craftsmen - shopkeepers in leather, metal, and textiles - is striking.
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As early as 1 November 1858 Matthew and Robert Faulkner, who were licenced victuallers and cordial manufacturers in Adelaide, had to appear in the Court of Insolvency.
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For the first century the Royal Navy used the quays around Rosia Bay as their victualling yard.
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Czech, and Russian manufacture, English Bedfords and American GMC's captured during the summer, agricultural tractors towing carts and limbers — pressed into service by the resourceful Colonel Finkh — waited with three thousand tons of supplies which were to be run through the corridor to revictual the 6th Army.
Barbarossa
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Ah, all done, you'll be better within the hour, now I must go fetch you two some victuals.
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The captain victualed his ship for the voyage.
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He planned to get them away in the dark of night, have them at a safe distance by morning, and then, at his leisure, drive them to a southern market and bring back to the Black Colonel what he got for them, less his own expenditure on victuals and drink, and the due entertaining of other gentlemen of the same kidney, met on the road, because its comradeship had to be justly handselled.
The Black Colonel
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Senegal, detected in this graveolent substance, fit only for wheel-axles, a threefold property, that of smelling like violets, of tasting like oil of olives, and tinging victuals like saffron, with a colour still finer.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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The old shop was once a butcher's shop when the Henaghan family were the town's leading victuallers.
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They point out that the troops were not sent to fight, but only to revictual a besieged place, and that the King's orders were that, if attacked, "they were to retreat at a walk, and if they were pressed, go from a walk to a trot, and from a trot to a gallop, for they were to risk nothing.
Bayard: the Good Knight Without Fear and Without Reproach
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Their ‘Locals Online’ bid was put together in partnership with the National Federation of Licensed Victuallers.
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Sands and Eastman, Limericked, Victuallers, went and, with his unmitigated astonissment, hickicked at the dun and dorass against all the runes and, when challenged about the pretended hick (it was kickup and down with him) on his solemn by the imputant imputed, said simply: I appop pie oath, Phillyps Captain.
Finnegans Wake
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He will, of course, have all the same victuals as the amateur but -- and here's the rub -- he will have hidden them.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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They take notice of nothing in the world, only they seem to see and smell victuals, at the approach of which they will gape, and be very restless, and make something of a bray.
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The manner in which Judas grew more white-livered over his victuals, and languished, with his head on one side, as if he had no appetite, defies all description.
Pictures from Italy
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Concerted action among the licensed victuallers themselves affords the most reasonable prospect of breaking down the objectionable practice, and many of them at their meeting a week ago showed a willingness to consent.
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Goodsir had learned from the older doctor that a certain Stephan Goldner, the expedition's provisioner from Houndsditch who had won the contract through extraordinarily low bids, had almost certainly cheated Her Majesty's government and Her Majesty's Royal Navy Discovery Service by providing inadequate — and possibly frequently poisonous — victuals.
The Terror
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After we had fed, we drew ourselves back to our boats upon the river, and there came to us all the lords of the country, with all such kind of victual as the place yielded, and with their delicate wine of pinas, and with abundance of hens and other provisions, and of those stones which we call spleen-stones.
The Discovery of Guiana. Paras. 50-102
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For example, as Wright states, ‘in a peculiar use of gender-neutral language, the legislation consistently refers to ‘he’ or ‘she’ and ‘his’ and ‘her’ when speaking of the licensed victualler’.
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After the round of introductions, it was time for some victuals.
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In a country of plantation, first look about what kind of victual the country yields of itself to hand; as chestnuts, walnuts, pineapples, olives, dates, plums, cherries, wild honey, and the like; and make use of them.
XXXIII. Of Plantations
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I'm sure McGrory's is one of those places where 19th century writers stabled their horses and demanded beer and victuals.
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Dr. McDonald, assistant surgeon aboard HMS Terror — my counterpart there as it were — has theories that heavily salted food is not as efficient and antiscorbutic as fresh or nonsalted Victuals, and since the regular seamen aboard both ships prefer their Salted Pork to all other meals, Dr. McDonald worries that the heavily salted birds will add little to our Defenses against Scurvy.
The Terror
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Once victualled, the fleet set out for Staten Island, where it deposited the army.
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They consume their victuals from an upside-down position in the belief it causes indigestion, sends the blood to the head and therefore increases belligerence gainfully.
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As eagles go forth and bring home to their eaglets the lamb or the pavid kid, I say there are men who live and victual their nests by plunder.
Roundabout Papers
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She'd never done a stitch o 'sewin' nor cooked a meal o 'victuals in her life, and I ricollect her mother sayin' she didn't know which she felt sorriest for, Wick or Virginia, and she wished to goodness there was a law to keep such folks from marryin '.
Aunt Jane of Kentucky
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Here, canned jackfruit is cooked into a quick and easy Green Jackfruit Curry by Sheela of Delectable Victuals.
Archive 2007-03-01
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Take food: our hunter-gatherer ancestors never knew a time where there were unlimited victuals.
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For example, British India calculated ‘earnings, cargo carried to all ports and the freight rate applied, as well as passage times, victualling, fuel, loading and discharging costs’.
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I did not call her unfeeling long; for I perceived she was in purgatory throughout the day, and wearying to find an opportunity of getting by herself, or paying a visit to Heathcliff, who had been locked up by the master: as I discovered, on endeavouring to introduce to him a private mess of victuals.
Wuthering Heights
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There is great aboundance of victuals in this citie, as namely of bread and wine, and especially of hogs-flesh, with other necessaries.
The Journal of Friar Odoric
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And as every ‘victualer’ knows, you will certainly need a nifty name for your tacky tavern besides, ‘Stickey Wicket Pub’, ‘Waddling Dog’ or ‘Toad-in-the-Hole’ (which are already taken).
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When the ships were laden with water and victual, weapons and troops, Sayf al-Muluk’s father and mother farewelled him and King Asim said, Depart, O my son, and travel in weal and health and safety.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The town's licensed victuallers said most districts had agreed to 10.30 ‘last orders’ especially in tourist areas and it would be a great boost for trippers.
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In 1336 he freighted a ship of a fellow Lynn merchant (who also frequented the Norwegian market) to fetch stockfish and victuals from Norway; his own ships may have already been absent on voyages.
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The population was victualed during the war
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The captain and his mate enjoyed their supper, while Carne in the distance bore the pangs of a malady called bulimus, that is to say, a giant’s ravening for victuals, without a babe’s power of receiving them.
Springhaven
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There is something of a humorous history to the prefix Mungo, and it dates back to when a noted Carlow victualler, was building kennels in Ireland.
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Armeniam maiorem, ad quandam ciuitatem quæ vocatur Azaron, quæ erat multùm opulenta antiquitus, sed Tartari eam pro magna parte destruxterunt: In ea erat abundantia panis et carnium, et aliorum omnium victualium praeterquam vini et fructuum.
The Journal of Friar Odoric
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The Pacific Fleet got revictualled.
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So soone as we were come to an anker in Totnes rode vnder Mount Raleigh, we espied foure white beares at the foot of the mount: we supposing them to be goats or wolues, manned our boats and went towards them: but when we came neere the shore, we found them to be white beares of a monstrous bignesse: we being desirous of fresh victuall and the sport, began to assault them, and I being on land, one of them came downe the hill right against me: my piece was charged with hailshot and a bullet: I discharged my piece and shot him in the necke; he roared a litle, and tooke the water straight, making small account of his hurt.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.
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He lives by his wits, playing tricks on a niggardly old victualler and other gullible occupants of the camp, and gets whipped for his pains.
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'We hold opinion, that with this troop of men which we have presently with us in land service, being victualled and munitioned, we may well keep the town, albeit that of men able to answer present service we have not above 700.
Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage
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After refuelling and victualling at Austal, Armidale headed north to Dampier where members of the sea training group were changed and contractors came on board to repair some minor defects to davits.
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Unthinking courage in the matter of victuals is rather a relief from the strained and anxious hygienic watchfulness of the overcivilized and the overrich.
Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View
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And further, I was to prouide for biscuit, beere, and beefe, and other victuals, and things otherwayes needful according to aduise.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Beekeeper, you are preaching victual and squirrel gospel there!
What Happened to Squirrel Hunting?
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Ceylon is a braue Iland, very fruitfull and faire; but by reason of continuall warres with the king thereof, all things are very deare: for he will not suffer any thing to be brought to the castle where the Portugals be: wherefore often times they haue great want of victuals.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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The licensed victuallers recently held their annual banquet, whilst their ‘better halves’ and daughters were left out ‘again’.
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Leyth betymes, for kepping [1038] of the victuallis whiche should have cumed to us.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)