Example Sentences

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Why should the calf have been killed, which would scarce give them a supper, and the cow spared, that would have provisioned the whole crew for a month?

From Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops by Reid, Mayne

"But some of us have provisioned ourselves rather better and can generally weather it through till we are picked up," the lawyer put in.

From A Traveler from Altruria: Romance by Howells, William Dean