This displacement of the army, rendered necessary by the difficulty of provisioning it, separated by great distances the quarters from each other, though all, except that of Roscius, were comprised in a radius of 100 miles.
This will give the allied armies a secure rear for provisioning and retreat; and our task as diplomatists is to win over the Freeland government to this project.
Johnston received this message on the southern frontier of Masailand, and, as there was not time to return, he had to complete his provisioning in the districts of Kilima and Teita.
The provisioningand protection of an emigrant train of many thousand persons through such regions must be organised.
Bradstreet was successful in thus provisioning the forts with a six months’ store for five thousand men.
They still refused, in the face of Johnson’s contract, while still in force, to furnish extra guards for the fulfilment of his stipulation in provisioning Oswego.
It was only a little while since enormous stores had been dumped here for the provisioning and equipment of our Expeditionary Force.
Only a few months before a deputy had hinted at grave scandals in the provisioning and equipment of the army.
Two consular armies now threatened Syracuse, when Hiero sought peace, which was accepted on condition of provisioning the Roman armies, and paying one hundred talents to liberate prisoners.
The mere provisioning this great host for a single day impoverished the country.
The power of the zemstvos themselves was lessened by taking from them such important functions as the provisioning of famine-stricken districts and by limiting in the most arbitrary manner the amount of the budget permitted to each zemstvo.
On the 19th, Bassompierre went to Paris to make arrangements for the provisioning of his army.
But Little Tom, as he lay there in his broom straw bed about midday on Saturday became troubled in his mind about the provisioning of the garrison.
The lieutenant's second care after provisioning the boys, was to make another appeal to the revenue officer, or rather to place that person again in his rightful position of responsibility.
The third was the seal of the provisioning department and on it was written, Plenty.
The provisioning of Paris and its suburbs was endangered.
Sembat, were harassed by complaints on the subject of transport; the victualling of the Army and the provisioning of the towns seemed likely to be paralysed by the overcrowded condition of the railways and the ports.
We have come so suddenly on Count Heinrich that he has had no opportunity of provisioning his stronghold.
To them was given the collection of taxes, the superintendence of public buildings, the development of the military system, the clothing of the militia, the provisioning of the citizens and the supplying of all their daily necessities.
In 342, a senator and two knights were charged, during a famine, with the provisioning of Rome.
Philip may have been charged with the care of provisioning the party, just as Judas Iscariot carried the purse; this conjecture would account for our Lord turning to him with the question, "Whence are we to buy bread?
The process ofprovisioning being complete, the secret impulse which urged her to collect her honey is no longer active.
The duty ofprovisioning the boat had been left to Mrs. London and myself, and I fear that in the buying we lost all sense of proportion.
In every family of the higher class, the lady of the household had to see to the provisioning as well as to the clothing of its members and servitors.
Also, she was to see to the provisioning of the house, to pay the wages, and to attend to the mowing of the hay and to the repairs to the buildings.
On the 21st July the provisioning of the ship was completed, the new boat was hoisted into her place, and the Investigator dropped down the harbour to make her course northward.
On the reef rapid preparations were made for establishing the company in as much comfort as means would allow, and for provisioning them until assistance could be procured.
Percy, the King's lieutenant on the western March, had exerted himself during June, July and August in fortifying and provisioning the castles.
I should have left the same evening, to rejoin my men and carry out these orders, but the question arose as to the best means of provisioning the garrisons of the various forts, amounting altogether to 180 men.
The provisioning of the army became daily more difficult; Philip was obliged today to plunder those who but yesterday had voluntarily supplied his wants, and then he had reluctantly to submit to beg afresh.
The end of it was that Ojeda left the island without having reported himself to Columbus, but not before he had completed his business--which was that of provisioning his ships and collecting dye-wood and slaves.
The provisioning was done by a Florentine merchant named Juonato Beradi, who had an assistant named Amerigo Vespucci--who, by a strange accident, was afterwards to give his name to the continent of the New World.
Waterhouse had gone from Ulster to England towards the end of 1573, and had laid before the Privy Council the requests of Essex, especially as to the necessity of erecting fortifications and providing properly for provisioning the troops.
To avoid the difficulty of provisioning an army in winter, it was resolved to make a permanent settlement in the extreme North.
Colonel Colley proved an excellent transport officer, and had succeeded in amply provisioning Insafoo.
However, fate ordained that he was to do good work in connection with the provisioning of the unfortunate soldiers who had suffered so cruelly during the previous winter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "provisioning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
