revictualling

The question of the revictualling is the most important one of the moment.

Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris Henry Labouchere 1871

In the few cases where the Russians succeeded in surrounding their enemy they had neither the artillery to reduce them nor sufficient strength in the air to prevent their revictualling by the Luftwaffe.

Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

But in course of time, as the duty of revictualling an increasingly large number of tombs and temples tended to tax the resources of the people, the practice developed of substituting for the real things models, or even pictures, of food-animals, vegetables, and other requisites of the dead.

The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith

"All hands were piped," to use a sea phrase, to aid in the revictualling of the fort, the orders for which were urgent.

Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812

He then proceeded to persuade Pereira to clean out the water tanks of the fort, and to clear out the old supplies of food preparatory to revictualling them; then, when the forts were without food and water, and finally having damped all the powder, he gave notice to the Arabs, who attacked and took the town on a Sunday evening, when the Portuguese were carousing.

Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

They fled in all directions upon the Mincio, where Wurmser himself, meanwhile, had been employed in revictualling Mantua.

The History of Napoleon Buonaparte Lockhart, John G 1906

At the same time the heavy long-range guns bombarded the headquarters, the cantonments and the railway stations; they cut the railway lines, causing a suspension of the work of revictualling.

World's War Events, Vol. I 1902

It might become a revictualling centre, a magazine for new explosives, for lately-invented projectiles, for anything of that sort: the secret arsenal of

The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin Maurice Leblanc 1902

September, they have been revictualling and reinforcing their army in the Argonne.

Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort Edith Wharton 1899

Captain had some old friends amongst the Dutch colony, and there were certain matters of revictualling the ship to be thought of, and Lancelot longed for a little shooting and hunting.

Marjorie 1898