victualer

• If one is caught again begging, he shall be deemed a felon Any innkeeper, victualer, or alehouse keeper who allows drinking by persons other than those invited by a traveler who accompanies him during his necessary abode there or other than laborers and handicraftsmen in towns upon the usual working days for one hour at dinner time to take their diet in an alehouse or other than laborers and workmen following their work to any given town to sojourn, lodge, or victual in any inn, alehouse or victualing house shall forfeit 10s. —  Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed.
• I'm a licensed victualer, and a gentleman -- that's what I am, if you want to know. " —  A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time
• As surely as the wolf retires before cities does the fairy sequester herself from the haunts of the licensed victualer. —  Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4
• "I am a licensed victualer, that's what I am, and I ain't flowery," he said, in an apologetic tone; "I hain't had the chance of it, being as I'd no schooling -- but, deng me, you've just hit it!" —  A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time
• It ran: "Paul Drayton, five feet eleven inches, brown hair and eyes, aged thirty, licensed victualer, born in London, convicted of robbery at the scene of a railway accident." —  A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time

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