How To Use Victuals In A Sentence
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In February 1342 he and William were instructed to sell all victuals purveyed by them.
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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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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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Ah, all done, you'll be better within the hour, now I must go fetch you two some victuals.
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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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If a man were sick and obliged to stay within, no victuals for him that day.
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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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And the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the mouth of The Lord.
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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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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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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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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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Bangkok's so awash in quality victuals, it's tough to stand out from the pack.
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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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And a new smooth shovelboard, whereon no victuals ne'er stood;
English Songs and Ballads
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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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This was the principal site for retailing victuals and other necessaries.
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Arachu vitta sambar - Sheela from Delectable Victuals
RCI ~ TAMIL CUISINE ~ ROUNDUP
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Take food: our hunter-gatherer ancestors never knew a time where there were unlimited victuals.
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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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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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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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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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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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After the round of introductions, it was time for some victuals.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Feeling a bit hungry from my long cruise, however, I begged off and looked for some victuals.
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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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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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During that time she only ate mild herbs and light victuals.
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I declined the victuals although others partook of cheese, crackers and fruit cake.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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There are no more victuals for the pig.
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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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And then I remembered the cider in my ice-chest, and after victuals and a brief respite, the evening started.
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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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Next I had to fling some victuals into the sucking void of self-digesting agony that was my stomach.
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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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(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 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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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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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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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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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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So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a reward, and let him go.
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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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Good victuals and ale to any man but a slave master.
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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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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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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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Shall we go sate my appetite for perishable victuals, my ever-loving husband?
