Next comes the victualling, which is also cut short, lest the honey-store swelled by the joint contributions of the two Bees should overflow. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
A Grade I-listed, early-19th-century naval victualling depot, with a harbour on the Tamar estuary, the yard's vast granite buildings were designed to cater for fleets of Georgian sailing ships. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The saluting platform with guns, which used to greet visitors to the Edgcumbe mansion, looks across the narrows to the marina, the apartments in the former victualling yard, and the spread of Plymouth, all backed by clouds obscuring Dartmoor. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The wind being favourable, gave us an opportunity of examining and drying some of our provifion, particularly, fome Chinefe hams and dry filh, which conftituted part of our victualling. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In last night's diary entry, Pepys tells how he had drafted a new paper on victualling the fleet, and was waiting for the King to come out of chapel to show it to him, when there came people out of the Parke, telling us that the guns are heard plain. ❋ Pepysdiary (2009)
In February 1809, the Victualling Board wrote to the Navy Board to inform them that they were having problems with the wall of the victualling wharf at Deptford. ❋ M (2008)
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)
Well, honest Murdoch, I take it on me to say, thou deservest to be upper-warden, since thou showest thyself twenty times better acquainted with the way of victualling honest gentlemen that are under misfortune, than thy principal. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Her father had to do with the victualling of passenger – ships. ❋ Unknown (2007)
They have gone forth with some of our lads to gather venison, or it may be beeves and muttons for our victualling, and somewhat of battle may they have had on the way, for ill neighbours have we. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I should say, now, that the stage, or the — or the army, Mr Richard — or something very superior in the licensed victualling way — was the kind of thing that would call out the genius of such a man as you. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Perhaps there is some microscopic animalcule of which Medicine and Science are not yet aware which invaded the tins during transit or even at Goldner's victualling factory. ❋ Simmons, Dan (2007)
Control, which began ostensibly with the victualling of the Transport ❋ Herbert George (2006)
President in a historical voice: ‘and it may be appropriate to mention that many were kept here in olden times: they were largely used as beasts of burden in victualling the castle previous to the last siege, in the year sixteen hundred and forty-five.’ ❋ Unknown (2006)
She found abundance of provisions laid in, his plan being to replenish his buttery weekly, and this being the day after the victualling van had called from Sherton. ❋ Unknown (2006)
And it doth in no wise beseem me, by comparing with these the fulsome debauchees of victualling-houses and stews, to contaminate Helicon and the Muses, — ❋ Unknown (2004)
So I pushed the door open, and saw a lot of little cabins, right and left of a fore and aft gangway, all rigged up alike for victualling. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
Widow Shanks had remarked with tender sorrow — more perhaps because she admired the young man, and was herself a hearty soul, than from any loss of profit in victualling him — that ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
John: Hey dude wanna go get some [vittles]?
Joe: [Uhm actually] thats [spelled] victuals, and sure.
John: How can you tell . . . we're talking . . . ❋ MikeTheWise (2007)
Ancient [scribe] #1: Hmm, how should we spell the word that sounds like 'vittles'?
Ancient scribe #2: I think [victuals] will do nicely. Imma hit that crack again, you want some?
Ancient scribe #1: Yeah, [gimme some] of that ❋ TheTacoCollector (2021)
[My cat] treats me as the [resident] victualizer and [masseuse] though he does like to keep me company. ❋ Word Squire (2011)
