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Example sentences for "bovril"

Lexicographically close words:
bouwery; bovate; bovates; bove; bovine; bow; bowd; bowe; bowed; bowel
  1. Bovril and brandy were more to their liking than solid food.

  2. Wooten favoured Bovril from a vacuum flask, corned beef sandwiches, and cheese; but some people, having no appetites, preferred to fast.

  3. Tinned meats and bovril and prunes, and ever so many apricots.

  4. On the whole, then, there was cause for thankfulness, and as she added a tin of biscuits and two jars of bovril to her prudent stores, she found herself a conscious sceptic about those Roman roads.

  5. A bottle of bovril embedded itself quietly there without damage, and a tin of Bath Oliver biscuits beat a fierce tattoo on one of corned beef.

  6. This Bovril is very comforting, Betty; as reviving as--an epigram.

  7. So that by the end of September, 1914, Bertie was serving out cocoa and biscuits, writing paper and cigarettes, hot coffee and sausages and cups of bovril to exhausted or resting soldiers in the huts of the Y.

  8. X," I said, "will it be best to eat chocolate with the Bovril thrown in, or to drink Bovril with the chocolate thrown in?

  9. The chocolate and Bovril were added, after carefully picking out the bits of broken bottle.

  10. As there was still a good deal of delay in getting the cases off, our tent was brought over from Canterbury Gully and pitched on the beach; the cooks keeping the bovril and biscuits going.

  11. However, we got the cooks going, and had plenty of Bovril and Oxo, which we boiled up with biscuits broken small.

  12. After supper, Bovril and cheese omelette, we went out to seek the café.

  13. The carriages drew up in single file and we discussed the sleeping problem, while Cutting cooked bovril on an ill-behaved Primus stove.

  14. Very depressed, we sent them the remains of our Bovril and some tins of milk from the tiny hotel store, and bought the last three eggs in the place.

  15. Nothing but farinaceous foods should be allowed unless it be Brand's Essence, or some stimulating liquid, such as bovril or Oxo, to which isinglass has been added.

  16. Bovril is a good stimulant in distemper, but it will certainly make the dog vomit, unless given in very small quantities, so long as the stomach is in an irritable condition, one or two tablespoonfuls each time being quite sufficient.

  17. These, together with one ton of pemmican and half a ton of emergency ration prepared by the Bovril Company (London), are specially referred to in the chapter on sledging equipment.

  18. He intimates that the person at the Bovril stall has it.

  19. They looked back to the old man and the children, and waved their hands in farewell, taking nothing away with them but the bovril and the tea in Edwin's pocket.

  20. There should be bovril and tea and sugar somewhere.

  21. He agreed to save the bovril Edwin had brought for his father alone.

  22. My provisions were prepared for me by the Bovril Company after instructions furnished by me, with a view to the severe Tibetan climate and the altitudes we should find ourselves in.

  23. Just a nice wash, and then we'll go to sleep," there is but little doubt that a cup of cold bovril would have deluged her ample form.

  24. I'm going to send you up a cup of bovril in a minute.

  25. The bovril is quite cold," she said picking it up.

  26. Your fever has gone," she said; "you are only weak, I have got some bovril here.

  27. She drank the bovril and returned him the empty cup.

  28. A cup of bovril and some bread will make quite a nice supper for you.

  29. The gigantic business in meat extracts carried on by such firms as Bovril and Liebig has given a cue to the wide-awake Argentine for another outlet to his enterprise.

  30. The Bovril company, in Entre Rios and the adjoining province of Santa Fe, have nearly half a million acres of freehold and a quarter of a million acres of leasehold land.

  31. Most of the meat extract supplied to the world by the Liebig and Bovril companies comes from Entre Rios.

  32. Bovril sledging ration, two biscuits, and some lumps of sugar.

  33. Four birds went into the pot for six men, with a Bovril ration for thickening.

  34. I asked Wild, and found they had a bag of oatmeal, some Bovril cubes, one bag of chocolate, and eighteen biscuits, so they are much better off than we are.

  35. Half a pot of steaming Bovril ration warmed us up, and when we marched again ice-inclines at angles of 45 degrees did not look quite as formidable as before.

  36. Bovril sledging ration, eaten raw, and a pannikin of hot milk for each man.

  37. Here I decided to depot ten cases of Bovril sledging ration in case of our having to move away quickly.

  38. The men were down to the last Bovril ration, the only form of hot drink they had, and had scarcely four days' food in hand at the time of the rescue.

  39. I told all the boats that immediately we could find a suitable floe the cooker would be started and hot milk and Bovril would soon fix everybody up.

  40. This was later on diluted still more, and sometimes replaced by a drink made from a pea-soup-like packing from the Bovril sledging rations.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bovril" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.