Sentence examples for victual from inspiring English sources

"Solomon Hinshaw fell near the hearth with a bullet wound through his heart and died instantly without a groan, with a morsel of victual in his mouth," Col. Ham wrote.

She confesses that her favorite restaurant in town is Febo, where the comestibles are arrayed behind little glass doors, Automat style, a sort of victual version of the red-light district.

"How happy we are," the Sikh and the Pathan declared, sharing their victual with Kim and the lama.

For all bald Penny's fighting qualities, once he'd had his drink, John III in the end had to surrender "for lack of victual, gunpowder, men's hearts, lack of surety of rescue".

Deer hunting is a way to reach as far back into the victual procurement process as possible to obtain healthy and delicious food.

And the truth was, pork may have contained as much if not more bad fat than beef and lamb, and much more than the newly canonized icon of victual virtue, skinless white chicken meat.

Tip O'Neill, the speaker, was appalled to find that the only victuals available were coffee, juice and a roll.

The procedure does not always work; some patients are so addicted to food that they eat small amounts of calorie-rich victuals almost constantly, even gaining weight.Bariatric surgery's complications, price and growing frequency have put it under a spotlight.

These included the great kitchen, privy kitchen, cellar, larder, pantry, buttery, ewery, saucery, chaundry, spicery, poultery and victualling house.

But the Googleplex is famous for its good and free victuals, doled out at food courts throughout the sprawling campus, and for the casual mixture of play and work.

Appointed, through Montagu's interest at court, clerk of the acts of the navy at a salary of £350 per annum and given an official residence in the navy office in Seething Lane, he became in the next few years a justice of the peace, a commissioner for and, later, treasurer of, Tangier, and surveyor of naval victualling.