The washing runs away with all the difference in wages, and their consumption of victual is much the same. From Wordnik.com. [Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
We all had a good time and there were plenty of burgers, hot dogs and every kind of victual for everyone. From Wordnik.com. [GAMING NEWS: "The Next War" Session Two! (3 July 2005)] Reference
As Mr. Delancey had never shown any interest in the matter of their board, they still continued to "victual," as Wilkins called it, at the restaurant, and sleep at the store. From Wordnik.com. [The Brother Clerks A Tale of New-Orleans] Reference
Up Physcus, up Neæthus 'side -- he lacks not victual there. From Wordnik.com. [Theocritus, translated into English Verse] Reference
Short allowance of victual, and plenty of nothing but Gospel!. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School] Reference
I ain't eber git use to de wittle (victual) you hab down here. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
"Here's a bit o 'nice victual, then," said the old woman, handing to. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
Siegfried in lordly guise; many kinds of victual did they take along. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] Reference
Whilst all exportation of munitions of war, corn and other victual into. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference
For aught I knew, there might have been fifty of you at least to victual. From Wordnik.com. [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
They saw the gleam of her white hand as she stretched it out to take the victual. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
With them rode Siegfried in lordly guise; many kinds of victual did they take along. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] Reference
No ship could clean, refit, victual or winter there without "the loss of all her men.". From Wordnik.com. [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference
There was "enough to victual him a week," he said; "the brute never would know when he was full.". From Wordnik.com. [Baby Pitcher's Trials Little Pitcher Stories] Reference
Corn and other victual was found in the island; the commander Epitadas having kept the men upon half rations. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference
The victual in plantations, ought to be expended almost as in a besieged town; that is, with certain allowance. From Wordnik.com. [The Essays] Reference
And then must they let carry their victual upon the ice with cars that have no wheels, that they clepe sleighs. From Wordnik.com. [The Travels of Sir John Mandeville] Reference
Have we not barrels upon barrels of rusty pork, and flour enough to victual a large army for the next two years?. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
They are stored with victual if any seige should come vpon them, for the space of two or three yeres before hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference
You had musty victual, and he hath holp to eat it: he is a very valiant trencherman; he hath an excellent stomach. From Wordnik.com. [Much Ado About Nothing] Reference
The earth bears them victual in plenty, and on the mountains the oak bears acorns upon the top and bees in the midst. From Wordnik.com. [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference
I will victual her with corn and wine, and clothe thee in new garments, and send a breeze behind thee to waft thee safe. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from the Odyssey] Reference
For lack of food nourishes the pestilence that eats away men's strength, and lack of victual undermines store of weapons. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
Mr. Littledale is, I suppose, sent up by the admiral to victual us; and, I hope, he will do it cheaper than any other person. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1] Reference
Neither was this expectation frustrate, for the Captain did bite, and came forth to have taken this victual (as he supposed). From Wordnik.com. [Castle Dangerous] Reference
Dalgetty once more grinned intelligence, and withdrew to victual his charger and himself, for the fatigues of his approaching mission. From Wordnik.com. [A Legend of Montrose] Reference
Alternating with the acorns in the outermost ring are bees, the two symbolizing the earth's "victual in plenty," as described by Hesiod. From Wordnik.com. [The Phiale of Achyris] Reference
They would have effect limp at untraversable distances behind cause; they would keep destiny carefully abed and feed it upon spoon-victual. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator] Reference
Dale governed were these; a small barque called the John and Francis, which brought few men and less victual; the next a small ship called the. From Wordnik.com. [Colonial Records of Virginia] Reference
There the natives live in perpetual plenty among perennial streams, and could victual the largest ship without feeling any diminution of their stock. From Wordnik.com. [Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791] Reference
He also sent off several vessels to victual and refresh his warriors, who, according to him, must have been greatly fatigued in such an action as I have just described. From Wordnik.com. [History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing] Reference
They were often compelled to eat food that was of evil savour through lack of better victual; but constant toil and hunger made herbs and pulse to be pleasant to the taste. From Wordnik.com. [The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes] Reference
Tahiti was occasioned, not by any distrust of his talents, but by the refusal of the natives, who were anxious to keep them in Tahiti, to victual the ship for so long a voyage. From Wordnik.com. [Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791] Reference
Meanwhile, if ye want fresh water, or victual, or help for your sick, or that your ship needeth repair, write down your wants, and ye shall have that which belongeth to mercy. '. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
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