The table was laid with an amazing array of viand. From LearnThat.org.
When she looked upon the viand before her she gave. From Wordnik.com. [A Dixie School Girl] Reference
Then, have a fresh charbroiled fish ready as viand. From Wordnik.com. [Root crops best alternative against rice shortage] Reference
"Women are the viand of a man's eyes, the fruit for the bon vivant.". From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
For better or worse they would try their hand at cooking the rare viand. From Wordnik.com. [Lee’s Lieutenants] Reference
I turned and saw a black approaching, bearing the homely viand known as corn-dodger. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861] Reference
At that time he preferred serving food to being a viand for those who gormandized oddities. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
The viand contents of the monumental burden together with what sea and hill could provide -- these figured. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
Joe's tone simply expressed honest amazement, as if one had asked for a broiled crocodile or any other impossible viand. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
If the viand is too hot or too cold, or is not what the visitor likes, he pretends to eat it, playing with knife and fork. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
When they served my meal, I noticed that I got an extra generous serving of the viand - in this case, hot sinigang na baboy. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2003-05-01] Reference
It would not have been unlike the Lacedaemonians purposely to have established a disagreeable viand in their system of public feeding. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 13, January 26, 1850] Reference
"Come now, amicus," their leader replied cheerfully, "this very evening I shall see you served meat, fowl, fish, whatever viand you wish ...". From Wordnik.com. [Black Horses For The King]
The Roumi travelers taste the succulent viand, taste again, eat till ashamed, and are ready to declare that never was mutton properly dressed before. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873] Reference
Cold beef formed the staple viand on the table, and everyone did full justice to it, as also to beer and porter, of which Mr Wopples was very generous. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Midas] Reference
The latter viand was repulsed with horror by the colonel, who in the effeminacy of a city life at Cuzeo had never tasted anything more outlandish than monkey. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873] Reference
Everyday, just before lunch, a lady comes over with a menu with three selections, each costing only P35, including rice, vegetables and a goodly viand portion. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-09-01] Reference
Alone one should not partake of any savoury viand, nor alone reflect on concerns of profit, nor alone go upon a journey, nor alone remain awake among sleeping companions. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
In Venice every holiday has its appropriate viand. From Wordnik.com. [Venetian Life] Reference
Then Monsieur summoned up his courage and helped Madame to the tender viand. From Wordnik.com. [My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71] Reference
He did not sit down to the table, but took up one viand after another, and ate as he walked to and fro the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Idolatry A Romance] Reference
"Huh!" said Una, who was unable to see any adventurous qualities in a viand which she consumed about twice a week. From Wordnik.com. [The Job An American Novel] Reference
There was an abundance of "pubs" and of fried-fish shops where "jellied eels" seemed to be a viand much in demand. From Wordnik.com. [Kent Knowles: Quahaug] Reference
But he was not asleep, for he often opened his mouth and smacked his lips, as if tasting the flavor of some viand. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
We were now more cheerful, and the anticipation of such an odd viand for supper, drew jokes from several of the party. From Wordnik.com. [The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire] Reference
"Try a bit o 'plum-duff, Mrs Mitford," suggested Massey, with well-intentioned sincerity, holding up a lump of the viand on his fork. From Wordnik.com. [The Coxswain's Bride also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue] Reference
With a skillful rotary finger he removed the viand, and brought down the house by calmly taking up his lines as if nothing had happened. From Wordnik.com. [Washington Irving] Reference
The others did not join him in this singular viand, although the shikarree assured them that tiger-beef was far superior to the venison of the sambur deer. From Wordnik.com. [The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains] Reference
Beautiful to see was the compassionate sympathy of the Countess's face when Rose offered her plate for a portion of the world-subjugating viand, as who should say. From Wordnik.com. [Evan Harrington — Complete] Reference
Spencer Tucker grasped the pie with one hand and his friend's fingers with the other, and for a few moments was silent from the hurried deglutition of viand and sentiment. From Wordnik.com. [On the Frontier] Reference
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