Victualler

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. ❋ Unknown (1663)

Henry Stobbs was "victualler" at the Sun Inn in 1886, followed by Frederick Benson. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He ordered his victualler to send bread to the poor at Moorfields and proclaimed a day of fasting next month, whereby appointed men will go about to collect money for those suffering. ❋ Priya Parmar (2011)

By then, Garvice, his occupation described as bookseller, was living with his uncle Joseph Winter a retired licensed victualler at 11 The Terrace, Woodford, Essex. ❋ Steve (2010)

Two days later, the Victualling Board wrote again to report that Henry Garrett, the agent victualler at Deptford, who had checked at high tide, reported that the water was now damaging the boundary wall between the victualling and dock yards, this being exacerbated by rat runs to the pea store and flesh cellars and between the seasoning house and the old cooperage, the water rising over the floor sufficiently to stop the coopers working. ❋ M (2008)

He was prominent in town affairs, held various offices, and between 1747 and 1752 was licensed as "Innholder, taverner, and common victualler of strong liquor by retail." ❋ Maggiemac (2008)

Fitzjames, on the other hand, had always had his doubts about the canned goods and the victualler who had canned them — the only member of the Expedition or the Admiralty who seems to have expressed such reservations — but Crozier remained incredulous that such an act of criminal fraud could have been carried out on ships of the Royal Navy. ❋ Simmons, Dan (2007)

Good God, man, exploded Crozier, every victualler does that to the Admiralty. ❋ Simmons, Dan (2007)

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. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The magistrate to whom the victualler subsequently came to complain passed many pleasantries on the occasion. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Amid the confusion of the moment, he could descry the face of the victualler, arrested into a stare of stolid wonder, and that of the barber grinning betwixt horror and eager curiosity. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Her host and victualler watched in silence, then quickly butchered the little deer, which was already beginning to attract a green buzz of flies. ❋ Larry McMurtry (2004)

Or, shall everyone turn victualler, or smith, because there are some that maintain their families plentifully and grow rich in those professions? ❋ Unknown (2002)

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; ❋ Unknown (2000)

The Home Department had changed contractors, so the victualler of the three ships was a slaving firm, paid in advance for each convict with no stipulation that he be landed alive and well. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2000)

After some elementary schooling he had served his time as an apprentice victualler, then, certificated and a Free Man who had paid his fine, he struggled toward the goal of keeping his own tavern. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2000)

Richard Morgan, victualler, had paid the fine and become an accredited Free Man, a vote-empowered citizen of a city which was in itself a county distinct from Gloucestershire and Somersetshire surrounding it, a citizen of a city which was the second-largest in all of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2000)

The son of a temperate victualler, he too was temperate, drank only beer and then never enough to feel it. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2000)