Despite the blizzard being their biggest problem, the cattle still needed provender for their basic needs to be met. From LearnThat.org.
Mmmm, the crops are coming in and the price of provender is down. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference
They were compelled to seek their provender from the sea, and in time they became salt-water men. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 15] Reference
The Arab proverb is, "Sweet provender is as bread to camels -- salted provender as confectionery.". From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Seemingly the only Londoners who enjoy any extensive variety in their provender are the slum-dwellers. From Wordnik.com. [Europe Revised] Reference
He said he would go out for some fresh "provender" and "sort o 'earn his keep" that way. From Wordnik.com. [Far Past the Frontier] Reference
These days you're most likely to encounter "provender" in articles written by food and travel writers. From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference
Birds, I reasoned, could easily spot my provender. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Birds In Winter] Reference
With that and our rifles we did not want for provender. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
To gather, as they went along, sweet provender for home. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
They swore to starve rather than consume the maggoty provender. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
Si'Wren arose, and groomed her horse, and saw to his provender. From Wordnik.com. [Si'Wren of the Patriarchs] Reference
'I say,' said Joe, when he had tasted the provender, 'them's scratchings. From Wordnik.com. [Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
His invention consists of a hopper with a drop bottom in which the provender is placed. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
They found it difficult to get the carpet and provender safely placed without getting wet. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
In the other inns it was the same, and many took their drink and provender in the open air. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867] Reference
"Do you like this as well as the oat-cake?" said I, with my mouth full of the dry, husky provender. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
So I jest went out an 'laid in plenty o' my own provender, -- suthin 'reliable an' wholesome, ye know. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
Give her tools, water, and provender, and spare your heavy hand when your eye would mark her shortcomings. From Wordnik.com. [Si'Wren of the Patriarchs] Reference
Careful not to spill any of the provender which Geth had given her, she unfolded and regarded it contemplatively. From Wordnik.com. [Si'Wren of the Patriarchs] Reference
You know there are immense amounts of vegetables and other provender brought to London from the Continent every day. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870] Reference
Then there is the soap-box provender, too, sure of a crowd, offering creed, propaganda, patent medicine, and politics. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Havanese had been so pleased with his provender, that Carlo may be said to have been a man "very well to do in the world" for a foreigner. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
A red handkerchief, spotted white, hung by a knowing loop from the right arm, contained provender and a flask of liquor for the inward man. From Wordnik.com. [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference
Dugingi and Jemmy Davis, promising faithfully to send the black boys over to the station after the corroboree, got their promised provender, and decamped. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter] Reference
"You keep yourself in hand for the chicken cooked by Mrs Ragg; I intend to be independent of it," she said, and walked home with her indigestible provender. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
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