"Victuals" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... who had the care of buying victuals for an Inn of Court—like the Temple. The particular individual who accompanied the party was a wily man who had more than thirty masters, and made fools of them all. Yet he was a man "whom purchasers might take as an example How to be wise ...
— The Canterbury Puzzles - And Other Curious Problems • Henry Ernest Dudeney
... upon the ground, and the rivers are bound up by frost. Cavalier, in his Memoirs, describes the straits to which his followers were reduced in that inclement season, being "destitute of houses or beds, victuals, bread, or money, and left to struggle with hunger, cold, snow, misery, ...
— The Huguenots in France • Samuel Smiles
... you," said Dickie, "but what call you got to do it? It'll cost a lot—my victuals, I mean. What call ...
— Harding's luck • E. [Edith] Nesbit
... the country boys and new prisoners —talked much of victuals—what they had had, and what they would have again, when they got out. Take this as a sample of the conversation which might be heard in any group of boys, sitting together on the sand, killin lice and ...
— Andersonville, complete • John McElroy
... say anything against what her son then proposed; but reflected that the lamp might be capable of doing greater wonders than just providing victuals for them. This consideration satisfied her, and at the same time removed all the difficulties which might have prevented her from undertaking the service she had promised her son with the sultan; Aladdin, who penetrated into his mother's ...
— Types of Children's Literature • Edited by Walter Barnes
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