provender

• “Mmmm, the crops are coming in and the price of provender is down.”

  Archive 2007-09-01

• “They were compelled to seek their provender from the sea, and in time they became salt-water men.”

  Chapter 15

• “The Arab proverb is, "Sweet provender is as bread to camels -- salted provender as confectionery.”

  Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

• “It were better to be a panniered jack-ass and pick up my scanty provender from the ditch, than be a garter’d peer in such a home as this. —”

  Joanna Baillie’s Ecotopian Comedies

• “Seemingly the only Londoners who enjoy any extensive variety in their provender are the slum-dwellers.”

  Europe Revised

• “Their provender is a species of grain called _donna_, somewhat like our pease, which are boiled, and then given cold to the horses, mixed with coarse sugar; and twice or thrice a week they have butter given them to scour their bodies.”

  A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

• “When the devil's atheistic "provender" tries to vend to you a pack of bubblegum lies without even the barest invocation of what the Bibo Sez - well, betwixt your unending screams of pain and remorse, those who believe what the Bibo Sez will have all of eternity to cackle at your evil folly.”

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• “British Guiana, there can be no doubt that the sugar cane will be replanted at shorter intervals of time than at present, and that other crops, such as provender crops for cattle, and provision crops for the colonial and perhaps the home market, will be made to alternate in cultivation with the cane.”

  The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.

• “He said he would go out for some fresh "provender" and "sort o 'earn his keep" that way.”

  Far Past the Frontier

• “But in justice to her it ought to be added that she seemed only to care for the kind of provender which yielded the largest increment in the way of crumbs.”

  Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron

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