Old Etonian (OE), a sublime host, had undertaken to fulfill the role of victualer. From Wordnik.com. [Cricket and the Lord's Bounty] Reference
As surely as the wolf retires before cities does the fairy sequester herself from the haunts of the licensed victualer. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4] Reference
His large amount of ready money -- a commodity especially scarce in those days -- soon enabled him to carry on very large commercial operations; and amongst other sources of wealth he probably derived considerable profit from his office of victualer of the navy. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873] Reference
The board approved a common victualer license for Cravings Cafe &. From Wordnik.com. [SouthCoastToday.com Latest Headlines] Reference
I fancied it would be so delightful and Dickensy to talk quietly with a licensed victualer by the name of Martha Huggins. From Wordnik.com. [A Cathedral Courtship] Reference
It ran: "Paul Drayton, five feet eleven inches, brown hair and eyes, aged thirty, licensed victualer, born in London, convicted of robbery at the scene of a railway accident.". From Wordnik.com. [A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time] Reference
"I am a licensed victualer, that's what I am, and I ain't flowery," he said, in an apologetic tone; "I hain't had the chance of it, being as I'd no schooling -- but, deng me, you've just hit it!". From Wordnik.com. [A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time] Reference
Certainly, there is a good bit of the camp slop that spills over into the waiting mouths of such campaign hangers-on, and it is often far too tempting to resist, even for the reluctant (but curious) victualer hopeful. From Wordnik.com. [Dealbreaker] Reference
I'm a licensed victualer, and a gentleman -- that's what I am, if you want to know. ". From Wordnik.com. [A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time] Reference
Contagious Diseases Acts (p. 393), "there was an order passed that every beerhouse-keeper and licensed victualer in the borough known to harbor these women would be dealt with, and probably lose his license. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society] Reference
They will indict the victualer. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference
I'm a licensed victualer and a gentleman -- ". From Wordnik.com. [A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time] Reference
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