"Victuals" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... players of drum and marimba; they have come. They spread coarse mats and fine mats. Where the lord is going to sit, they laid a coarse mat; they spread on it a fine mat; they set a chair on. They say: "Let the lord sit down." He sat down. The people begin to divide the victuals. ...
— The Talking Beasts • Various
... might have been; but that was not our fault, you know, as we had not things to work with, nor any body to set us to work, poor folks cannot know every thing as these good ladies do; we were half dead for want of victuals, and then people have not courage to set about any thing. Nay, all the parish were so when they came into it, young and old, there was not much to choose, few of us had rags to cover us, or a morsel of bread ...
— A Description of Millenium Hall • Sarah Scott
... cave first, and seeing Imogen, stopped them, saying: 'Come not in yet; it eats our victuals, or I should think it ...
— Tales from Shakespeare • Charles and Mary Lamb
... basket under his arm, or meal bag slung across his shoulder, to gather the abundant crumbs of the table, but he never penetrated beyond the kitchen. The poor widow of the neighborhood appeared regularly for the broken victuals that were almost the sole sustenance of her brood of little orphans, but she was a model woman of her class, not given to gossip and so devoted to her benefactors that she would repeat nothing likely to satisfy the vulgar curiosity of outsiders. The farmers ...
— The Bastonnais - Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 • John Lesperance
... finishing polish to my plate with the cleanest corner of her apron, "that 'addicks, leastways in May, ain't, strictly speaking, the safest of food. But then, if you listen to all they say, it seems to me, we'd have to give up victuals altogether." ...
— The Angel and the Author - and Others • Jerome K. Jerome
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