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The town was victualled for three weeks, and the magazines were tolerably well supplied with ammunition.

From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by Prescott, William Hickling

Our sanctimonious spy-out-the-nakedness-of-the-land must think we are well victualled, he must think we are well mannered.”

From The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)

By thus attaching themselves to the Anthophor� the young Sitares evidently intend to get themselves carried, at the opportune moment, into the victualled cells.

From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

And besides, she would have to be victualled; we should have to take food and water for a long journey.

From With Cochrane the Dauntless by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

The place was strong, so far as walls and bulwarks could make it, but it was not well victualled, and after a five-weeks' siege it was obliged to capitulate.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Johnson, Rossiter