victuals

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You can't imagine, Tournebroche, how excellent the victuals are there.

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  1. Food for human beings, esp. when it is cooked or prepared for the table; that which supports human life; provisions; sustenance; meat; viands.

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  1. any substance that can be used as food
  2. a source of materials to nourish the body
  3. a stock or supply of foods

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  • I should like you to ply him well with the victuals, my dears, for I should think he must be very hungry You astonish me," said the lady, gazing as before. —  The Idiot
  • I'm quite ready for my victuals, and so's my mule; aren't you, avic Barney's latter remark was addressed to his patient charger, from whose back he sprang as he spoke, and slackened its girths It was now approaching mid-day, and the hermit had pitched upon a large tree as a fitting spot for rest and refreshment. —  Martin Rattler
  • "I was never a great 'and with victuals, an' I find that the sea don't improve appetite--though, after all, I can't see why it should, and Poor Mrs Mitford stopped abruptly, for reasons best known to herself. —  The Coxswain's Bride also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue
  • For my part, I'm willing enough to go to any reasonable part o' the country where there are furs and Indians; but as for this Ungava, from what Massan says, there's neither Indians, nor furs, nor victuals--nothin' but rocks, and mountains, and eternal winter; and if we do get the Huskies about us, they'll very likely serve us as they did the last expedition to Richmond Gulf Ay, ay," cried one of the others, "you may say that, Francois. —  Ungava
  • But most of 'em prefer to hunt for their daily victuals, an' on'y come down to the settlements when they run out o' powder an' lead, or want to sell their furs. —  Twice Bought
 

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