They cannot now grant a license for sale of liquor to be drunk on the prem - ises except to a common victualler, that is, to one who conducts also the business of furnishing food.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference

Henry Stobbs was "victualler" at the Sun Inn in 1886, followed by Frederick Benson.    From Wordnik.com.  [HX News and Sport] Reference

"He's a licensed victualler, retired," Beth repeated, drawing upon her excellent verbal memory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference

In England such amusements would be illegal, and the victualler who allowed them in his house would probably be deprived of his license.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 281, November 3, 1827] Reference

Hotspur lay in the Iroise, and the victualler was heaving-to close alongside, to begin again the toilsome labour of transferring stores.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower And The Hotspur]

Or, shall everyone turn victualler, or smith, because there are some that maintain their families plentifully and grow rich in those professions?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Letter Concerning Toleration] Reference

The fend-dffs were over the side and the first boat was on its way from the victualler bringing the officer charged with initiating the arrangements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower And The Hotspur]

To save withdrawing Hotspur from her station, and to save you a long journey by boat, you might find it convenient to come in the victualler that brings this letter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower And The Hotspur]

Baroski, there appeared in the newspapers an account of the imprisonment of His Highness the Prince of Panama for a bill owing to a licensed victualler in Ratcliff Highway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mens Wives] Reference

There is a halting victualler, who styles himself the partridge; Menippus calls himself the swallow; Opuntius the one-eyed crow; Philocles the lark; Theogenes the fox-goose.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Birds] Reference

The only mitigating circumstance is that such luxuries are within the reach of ten Americans where one European sees them any nearer than through the windows of the victualler.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861] Reference

It was one more indication of the way the wind had been blowing, that he should have received a letter from Maria in six days; a victualler had brought it out with a fair wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower And The Hotspur]

Hornblower himself had heard a good deal of circumstantial gossip from the Shetland, the victualler which had come alongside Hotspur a couple of days earlier than the Princess.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower And The Crisis]

Contents of license of an innholder or common victualler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference

Here Dr. Gauden and Mr. Gauden the victualler dined with us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference

An English saloon-keeper is officially a licensed victualler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 4. American and English Today. 2. Differences in Usage] Reference

Mr. Sweetland, commissary; and Mr. Cutforth, agent victualler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II] Reference

Time went on, and Daniel had been six months a licensed victualler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Demos] Reference

The thrushes and blackbirds and wood-pigeons will find a new victualler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jonah and Co.] Reference

Me husband was a licensed victualler in Harrow, and we kept our own wagonette.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Slowcoach] Reference

Cheekey, a licensed victualler, moved that the master's report be put under the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ginx's Baby. His Birth and other Misfortunes: A Satire] Reference

"Ale-draper (a humorous name), a seller of malt liquors; an alehouse-keeper or victualler.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 52, October 26, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference

Next "follow parts of the statutes of England every craftsman victualler shall be ruled".    From Wordnik.com.  [Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc] Reference

The magistrate to whom the victualler subsequently came to complain passed many pleasantries on the occasion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men's Wives] Reference

If a license granted under this section to a person holding a license as an innholder or common victualler is sus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference

A common victualler who, upon re - servrfooci QUCst, OH any day but Sunday, or on any day if he holds a to traveler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference

Keating says that a slave was permitted only one colour, a peasant two, a soldier three, a public victualler five.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800] Reference

I fancied it would be delightful and Dickensy to talk quietly with a licensed victualler by the name of Martha Huggins.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Cathedral Courtship] Reference

In short, the mechanics 'institution had elevated him from the position of a licensed victualler to that of an engineer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thrift] Reference

To his great disappointment, the worthy victualler was away from home; the victualler's wife had no charitable tendencies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Demos] Reference

He could not part with her, however, till he had secured another vessel to act as tender, or victualler, to his little frigate.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.] Reference

Smiths and licensed victualler Smiths, Smiths with double-barrelled names and hyphens, Smiths with double-barrelled names without hyphens.    From Wordnik.com.  [India, Its Life and Thought] Reference