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  • To overcome satiety. (iii. 46-48) ( 'Viands' here implies meat, hence blood.)

    Morton, Topoi of 'Blood and Gold' in Mary and Percy Shelley 1997

  • There are now other Viands around town, but the original is by far the best.

    10 of the best restaurants in Uptown Manhattan, New York 2011

  • Table: the Viands (delicately drest) were served in, and excellent wines plentifully delivered, none attending but the three servants, and little or no lowd Table-talke passing among them.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Neverthelesse, observing each service after other, and that all the Viands (though variously cooked, and in divers kindes) were nothing else but

    The Decameron 2004

  • Viands of all kinds were brought up from town, greeting the olfactory nerves of the old invalid guards, as they were borne past them through the Gate of Justice.

    The Alhambra 2002

  • Viands of all kinds were brought up from town, greeting the olfactory nerves of the old invalid guards, as they were borne past them through the Gate of Justice.

    The Alhambra 2002

  • His Viands went to his goggles, but there were no goggles!

    Night of masks Norton, Andre 1965

  • Viands the most _recherche_ graced the board, and wines the most rare added zest to the feast.

    City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston George Thompson

  • Viands and this _October_ Beer, has left but few of his Fellows.

    The London and Country Brewer Anonymous

  • And so he devoted himself to the viands [Footnote: Viands: food.] with a ravenous gusto, while the old man, leaning backward, watched him with steady, curious eyes.

    Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker

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