Example Sentences

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We rose early & assembled on the Green, & met there with the rest of the victualing Party.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

Meanwhile he gave orders for so much rice and maize to be collected thereabouts, as was necessary for victualing his ships.

From Great Pirate Stories by French, Joseph Lewis

The ships had their magazines filled, their bunkers and oil tanks charged, their victualing completed, and last, but not least, their full crews aboard.

From America's War for Humanity by Russell, Thomas Herbert

The victualing of the little colony offered no immediate difficulty.

From Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space by Verne, Jules

The detections, particularly in the victualing hoys and transports, since the establishment of the Marine Police, prove the existence of the evil, and the wide field which it embraces.

From A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention by Colquhoun, Patrick