His children were reduced from rich silks to doily stuffs, his servants in rags and barefooted; instead of good victuals they now lived upon neck beef and bullock's liver.
I'm glad my education Enables me to stand Against the vile temptation Held out on every hand; Eschewing all the tittles With vanity replete, I'm loyal to the victuals Our grandsires used to eat!
This countrie is verie hoat, by reason whereof their victuals are of small substance.
Likewise all the victuals that was in the said ship for the sustentation of thirtie men that came in her, yea their water was of the same tree.
I railly thought I could not get them filled; but I did at last, and then they was stupid like, they'd been short of victuals so long.
It's not my place to dictate how the victuals is to be used.
Kings prouision of victuals for the furnishing of his Fleet at Lisbon: the fift being a ship about 1000.
There was found very good store of munition andvictuals in the Campe, some plate and rich apparell, which the better sort left behinde, they were so hotly pursued.
She made me take a packet of victuals and a bottle of milk, and as she put it into, my pocket the bottle struck on the butt of Maskew's pistol, which I had in my bosom.
There was supper waiting for us when we got back, but I had no stomach for victuals and sat moodily while Elzevir ate, and he not much.
Have you bed and victuals for a plain country man and his boy?
So the meal was silent enough, for she had finished before I arrived, and I ate but little myself being too much occupied with the thought of my strange discovery, and finding, beside, the tea lukewarm and the victuals not enticing.
Victuals is a rare stay-by when sorrow's to be met.
Tis a sad day, this, for us at Marsh," he said, thrusting his head forward and sniffing the air with unctuous wonder that the women could think of victuals at all at such a time.
They went about surveying the several estates with their own eyes, and, valuing the victuals paid from them, reduced the same to a sum of money.
So the captain of the guard gave him victualsand a reward, and let him go.
And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision.
Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.
So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
And as to white petticoats, there wasn't a female in the house; he wouldn't have one; and his victuals came in by the pantry window.
It's a new ghost, and I should like to know who he was, and why his victuals came in by the window.
The citizens were then placed upon strict rations, and in March notices were posted in the corridors of the jail to the effect that efforts to obtain victuals from outside were forbidden.
Having never married, he lived alone, cooking his own victuals and washing his own clothes.
Sidenote: Prouision of graine and victualstaken vp and sent to the king.
But there bain't no more victuals got into the house as I knows of.
Tis a fine thing to have a home what you can get in and go to, May, with a bit of fire to heat the limbs of you at, and plenty of victuals as you can put inside.
And is the victuals like to be as fine as the place?
I count 'twill take a rare lot of victuals afore you be set up as you once was, May.
And a grand thing to have your victuals spread afore you each time 'stead of having to go lean very often.
Victuals to th' inside of I and a bit of clothing to my bones, with summat to quiet this cough as doubles of I up.
The pains of us do come from the having of no victuals and from the winter's cold when snow do lie on the ground and the wind do moan over the fields, and when the fox do bark.
I sat me down at the table, but the victuals was as sand in the mouth, and the drink did put but coldness within I.
Young women as is hale and hearty having their victuals took up to their rooms and a-lying in bed till 'tis noon or later.
And 'tis the feel of victualsand no words as I wants in my mouth.
Good money for your pains--victuals to stuff you proper, and cider, all you can drink on a summer's day.
Can't you sit yourself down and give other folk a chance of eating their victuals quiet?
But the victuals as are waited for do have a better flavour to them nor those which be ate straight from the pot like.
My folks always taught me never to find fault with the victuals set before me, so I won't begin now.
I did not think I was so hungry, but the smell of the victuals made us both ravenous.
The smell of the victuals made me ravenous, and I ate until I could eat no more.
Bishop of Durham bestowed on the poor every week eight quarters of wheat, besides the broken victuals of his house.
And the prince or nobleman must be a very stingy curmudgeon, to be sure, if, at least, when his own dinner was over, he would not bid them welcome to the broken victuals from the table.
It's lucky for thee that tha's got victuals as well as appetite.
Iune, the Generall commanded that the captaines should deliuer out victuals but twice a day, to wit, 6.
Englande, and woulde now with this prise returne home: for his victuals were almost spent.
Mamise had worn herself down gadding the workmen's row with medicines and victuals in her basket.
Well, she's starting out through the big woods with a lot of victuals for old Granny England.
No one molested them so long as they did their work, for the cast-off victuals would have gone into the swill-barrel, anyway.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "victuals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
