victuals

How To Use victuals In A Sentence

• In February 1342 he and William were instructed to sell all victuals purveyed by them.
• 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
• 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
• Ah, all done, you'll be better within the hour, now I must go fetch you two some victuals.
• '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
• If a man were sick and obliged to stay within, no victuals for him that day.
• 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
• And the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the mouth of The Lord.
• 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
• 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