Victuals
in example sentence
'Poor child! it won't keep you,' says she; 'it will hardly keep you in
victuals
.'
More example sentences with word victuals
He immediately swore that he would not share his
victuals
with these people who came up out of the earth.
We got a big Gladstone for the clothes, and a couple of hampers for the
victuals
and the cooking utensils.
'Then I will have no victuals,' says I, again very innocently; 'let me but live with you.''Why, can you live without victuals?' says she.'Yes,' again says I, very much like a child, you may be sure, and still I cried heartily.
After some time, as she was telling some stories of one that was transported but a few weeks ago, I began in an intimate kind of way to ask her to tell me something of her own story, which she did with the utmost plainness and sincerity; how she had fallen into very ill company in London in her young days, occasioned by her mother sending her frequently to carry
victuals
and other relief to a kinswoman of hers who was a prisoner in Newgate, and who lay in a miserable starving condition, was afterwards condemned to be hanged, but having got respite by pleading her belly, dies afterwards in the prison.
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