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Example sentences for "victualler"

Lexicographically close words:
victual; victualed; victualing; victuall; victualled; victuallers; victualles; victualling; victualls; victuals
  1. The licensed victualler who dispenses such abominable stuff ought to be treated as one of the criminal classes.

  2. In the early age of the navy, each man-of-war had a victualler especially attached to her; as, in Henry VIII.

  3. A victualler who follows the camp to sell provisions to the troops.

  4. How is the poor landlord, or victualler to discover somebody else, who is neither lodger, stranger, nor traveller.

  5. In the meantime his men were unpaid and unfed; for the Vice-Treasurer had orders from the Deputy to give them nothing without the Queen's special directions, and the victualler feared that he might not have sufficient warrant.

  6. Fitzwilliam, or some of those about him, tried to husband the scanty resources of the Irish Government by giving the victualler a hint that he need not exert himself too much in Ulster.

  7. The commissariat was in a state of chaos, and though he had often and urgently asked for a victualler none was sent--'a most necessary minister, the toilsome care of whose charge doth trouble me more than half the Government besides.

  8. The victualler and the officers engaged on fortifications gave in their accounts, but they were full of mistakes.

  9. As a little girl she had often faced with blazing eyes the irascible licensed victualler in defence of her brother.

  10. They called to remembrance the law that “No victualler should be chosen to no such rooms as judge of victual,” and told again the long tale of their grievances.

  11. A Method practiced by a Victualler for Brewing of Ale or October Beer from Nottingham.

  12. We had this morning a great dispute between Mr. Gauden, Victualler of the Navy, and Sir J.

  13. Dennis Gauden, Victualler to the Navy; subsequently knighted when Sheriff of London.

  14. Then I turned round and, sure enough, I saw the two Frenchmen, the licensed victualler and his son, deliberately coming towards me.

  15. Could it be that the two Frenchmen who had followed me into the railway carriage in the company of a local licensed victualler were actually staying at Raynes Park, within half a mile of my home?

  16. In 1751 he held the office of Agent Victualler for the navy at Halifax.

  17. Sunday closing is generally compulsory, and the licensed victualler is bound by many restrictions unknown to his brother here.

  18. It is felt by many that it would be a hardship to take from a well-behaved licensed victualler his means of livelihood without some consideration.

  19. Most of the breaches of the law committed by publicans are due to this; for the unhappy licensed victualler has often no choice except between fostering his trade by illegal methods or getting notice to quit.

  20. The British public may be anxious to treat the poor licensed victualler generously; but it will hardly sanction the appropriation by wealthy wholesale firms, that thrive by fostering public misery, of large sums of public money.

  21. On the very day when Walker was arrested at the suit of Benjamin Baroski, there appeared in the newspapers an account of the imprisonment of His Highness the Prince of Panama for a bill owing to a licensed victualler in Ratcliff Highway.

  22. The magistrate to whom the victualler subsequently came to complain passed many pleasantries on the occasion.

  23. Every innkeeper, alehousekeeper, and other victualler permitting a patron who is not an inhabitant of the area to become drunk shall forfeit 5s.

  24. At dinner comes a summons for this office and the Victualler to attend a Committee of Parliament this afternoon, with Sir D.

  25. To his great disappointment, the worthy victualler was away from home; the victualler's wife had no charitable tendencies.


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