Victualling

Rodger makes clear that the single indispensable ingredient of the navy's success was its Victualling Board, which in its time must have been the world's best-organized government administration.

Eminent Domains 2005

Rodger makes clear that the single indispensable ingredient of the navy's success was its Victualling Board, which in its time must have been the world's best-organized government administration.

Eminent Domains 2005

Behm, who insisted upon supplying all their wants; and when they desired to be made acquainted with the price of the articles, with which they were to be supplied, and proposed, that Captain Clerke should give bills to the amount on the Victualling-office in

Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003

Behm, who insisted upon supplying all their wants; and when they desired to be made acquainted with the price of the articles, with which they were to be supplied, and proposed, that Captain Clerke should give bills to the amount on the Victualling-office in

Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003

Victualling Brewers so stupendiously ignorant, that they have thought they acted the good Husband, when they have squeezed the Hops after they have been boiled to the last in small Beer, to get out all their goodness as they vainly imagin'd, which is so reverse to good management, that in my

The London and Country Brewer Anonymous

"Indeed we must, ma'am," said the Captain, "that is, if we're going over the Victualling Yard."

Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel John B. [Illustrator] Greene

He used our expensive damask table napkins as dish cloths, involving us in endless complications with the Victualling Yard authorities, who objected to their being used for such a purpose.

Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories 1925

Nor was there on all this ground so much as one Inn or Victualling-house therein to refresh the feebler sort.

The Pilgrim’s Progress, in the Similitude of a Dream; The Second Part. Paras. 700-787 1909

I wasn't to be had, she picked up with a fellow from the Victualling

The Adventures of Harry Revel Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Well, what do you say, friends, to being our own Victualling Board out in the open sea, if we can get there?

No Defense, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897