How To Use provender In A Sentence
- We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.
- Let us libate, suhs, in order to tackle our provender in proper spirit. Desert Dust
- Or else, well-fermented maslin, that is, provender formed of a mixture of various substances: grain, beans, vetches, hay, and salt. winnowed -- not as it is usually given to cattle before it is separated from the chaff; the grain shall be so abundant that it shall be given winnowed. shovel -- by which the grain was thrown up in the wind to separate it from the chaff. fan -- an instrument for winnowing. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
- She surveyed her purchases anxiously, then bought all the herbs to go with all this provender. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
- Indeed we owe you thanks for your assistance and the good provender was most welcomed. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
- Greedy beggars !'he observed , making for the provender.'Why did not you invite me, Ratty?
- After this interchange of greeting, the steed began to his provender with an eager dispatch, which showed old military habits; and the master, after looking on the animal with great complacency for about five minutes, said, — “Much good may it do your honest heart, Gustavus; — now must I go and lay in provant myself for the campaign.” A Legend of Montrose
- Current costs consisted of provender, i.e. fodder and bedding, the pay of the workers who looked after the horses, and shoeing.
- I must praise the men who were engaged in this business, for they were not only teamsters, but errand boys -- expressmen we would call them now -- as well as purchasers of provender and general commercial agents of the Association; and their combined tasks were hard and difficult. Brook Farm
- The children refuse all human food until they are given newly shelled beans, upon which provender they subsist until they learn to eat bread.
