victuals

How To Use victuals In A Sentence

• 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.
• There are no more victuals for the pig.
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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)
• 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
• 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