The steel forks, in common use among the people, are incapable of raising thinviands to the mouth: while the broad, round-pointed knife was obviously intended for this business.
You needed me, chere Madame, to make the viands of the lightness and delicacy that would tempt the jaded appetite.
In every direction the ancient saw, that it was exclusively the woman's sphere to prepare the viands for her household, has become, in proportion as civilisation has perfected itself, an antiquated lie.
In my search, I suddenly found myself opposite an immense shop, where viands of every tempting description were ranged with all that artistic skill so purely Parisian, making up a picture whose composition Snyders would not have despised.
The odour of savoury viandsassailed his nostrils as he stood statue-like on the pinnacle and whirled his watch, for he hated unpunctuality above all things.
When all was ready he called on his companions to fall to; and discussed with the president, while the viands disappeared, the details of his journey to Belfast.
I then transferred the viands to a piece of the omnipresent Times newspaper, and hid them away in a cupboard, for it was not yet night, and I dared not throw the food into the street until darkness came.
The worst of it is, that the needful viands are not to be obtained by coin, but only by intimidation.
Everything is made of gold and marble, including, I fancy, the food—at least this hypothesis plausibly reconciles the quality and texture of the viands with the value the vendors seem to attach to them.
De Coucy, however, was not eating, nor had he eaten, "though the viands before him might well have tempted lips which had tasted little but bread and water for many months before.
As Frank remarked, it was a very different thing to sit there in the broiling sun and eat sandwiches and devilled eggs, or to consume the same viands with the yacht madly flying along in rolling waves and dashing spray.
But as the various viands proved a continuous succession of failures, Patty became really embarrassed and began to make apologies.
No man thought of risking his Sunday coat by wearing it, even though the viands were cold.
The unfortunate Samuel sulkily retired, casting envious eyes at the more favored denizens of the Punch-Bowl who were arriving to partake of the viands only shown to him.
The resources of the country for miles round were taxed to their utmost, for not only the queen's purveyors, but the Earl of Leicester's household officers had been scouring it in all directions to provide the necessary viands and provisions.
Here is a cottage, too, where lobsters and picnic viandsmay be procured.
The crumbs which fall from the tables of the rich would appear delicious viands to starving millions; and yet those millions obtain them not!
Her eyes fell upon the viands which the Resurrection Man had placed on the table; and she hastened to break her long fast.
This resulted in her receiving endless little attentions from Sir John; but more than once she felt quite irritated with her brother, who seemed to find no more pleasure in the carefully cooked viands than in the homely joints at The Firs.
The sharp pangs of hunger were already gnawing the vitals of both brother and sister, the tasty viands were inviting enough; but they had observed the poorly furnished room.
They guessed pretty accurately that these viands which he had produced with such abandon, were meant to last some little time.
I even enjoyed entering the spacious and luxurious restaurants and eating sparingly of some of the delicious viands prepared by the scientific chef.
Good taste suggests the proper thing in table dressing, in menu cards, in viands and beverages.
The meat courses should be served in thin white Japanese porcelain, but the other viands are to be served in cut glass dishes.
When he reached the inner hall he found the servants spreading the best viandsof the house upon the table; whilst Gertrude, Arthyn, and Llewelyn were gathered together in the embrasure of a window in eager discussion.
She would be sure to long to see the trial," said Wendot, attacking the viands before him with a hearty appetite.
Finding that he was fully engaged with the viands before him, he went on.
Just then, however, being very hungry, the young lord was more interested in discussing the viands placed before him than in narrating the particulars of the engagement.
Every mile of the road heightens the flavour of the viands we expect at the end of it.
The girls take theviands from the baskets and arrange them on the floor, while the men serve coffee from a coffee boiler on a small table.
In the wide inglenook before the oak settle a small table had been drawn up, and upon this table stood one wooden platter, and some homely viands sufficiently tempting to a hungry man, and a huge joram of home-brewed ale.
His prices are moderate and his cooking and viands of the best, and will satisfy the most critical of the gourmets.
But Michael has neither the art nor the viands that made Marchands famous, and he is content to say that his most famous dish is tripe--just plain, plebeian tripe.
You now have the widest range of possibilities both as to viands and as to price.
And looking down upon the viands spread before him he added, "The Lord be good to the boy, and make him as happy in his city home as be they who be wearin' and eatin' his gifts in the woods!
Hunger had brought its appetite to the plentiful table, and the well cooked viands provoked its indulgence.
While the husbands were discussing the viandshe carried to them, their wives were discussing the new situation of affairs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "viands" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
