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Scholars long thought that the capability to construct and victual a watercraft and then navigate it to a distant coast arrived only with advent of agriculture and animal domestication.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 24, 2018

Preachments against war have come to savor strongly of zwieback, a victual which most people can take or leave at will.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1592, Hideyoshi, founder of the navy, used his ships to land troops in Korea, to victual their beachheads.

From Time Magazine Archive

Finally the ship had so much victual booty that an extra meal was served: afternoon coffee with bonbons.

From Time Magazine Archive

He went into an inn where there was a jolly hostess, who said to him: “Young master, would you have victual for your money?”

From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Charles Th?odore Henri de Coster

So ubiquitous are highly processed, highly palatable victuals for children that microwaves are now fitted with special settings to heat them up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

When it’s in the hands of cinematic chef and film critic Justin Chang, the visual victuals can be sumptuous.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2022

“It tastes like chewing on a urine-infested mattress,” said Samuel West, who, as curator of the Disgusting Food Museum, knows a thing or two about unpleasant victuals.

From Reuters ● Nov. 2, 2018

He wants victuals to eventually account for 25 percent of U.S. sales, up from 20 percent now.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2017

“We always make the Newbies start with the bloody Sheers. Don’t worry, cuttin’ up Frypan’s victuals ain’t but a part.

From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner

Buffets of barbecued brisket, ham on the bone and oysters victualed the multitudes as they passed through exhibitions of work by Alexander Calder, Yto Barrada, Peter Hujar and David Hockney.

From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2019

But the Herald Tribune has never found it easy to keep its 62-year-old outpost victualed and supplied.

From Time Magazine Archive

"But you don't get a company of two hundred horse and horsemen watered and victualed and armed and saddled and started all in a minute. Now: what's our direction? Due North?"

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis

He sent to far kingdoms for woodsmen, carpenters, metalsmiths, goldsmiths—also carters, victualed, clothiers to attend to the workmen—and for weeks their uproar filled the days and nights.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

Their adjutants, alarmed by the tumult, hurried to the spot, fearing a bread riot; for the camp was far from supplies, and had been ill victualed for several days.

From Under Two Flags by Ouida

It was garrisoned by five hundred men, was well provided with ammunition, and was victualled for a two months' siege.

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

They were victualled for a long siege, and as the place was strong they had nothing to fear.

From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Charles James Lever

The caravel was well victualled and it was manned by men ready for toils, and Alvaro Fernandez was young in years and audacious.

From The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea Vol. II by Gomes Eannes de Zurara

There he was closely besieged by his foes, but the castle was well victualled, and held out stoutly against its assailants.

From Historic Tales, Vol. XIII (of 15), Part I The Romance of Reality. King Arthur by Charles Morris

We are thoroughly armed, manned, and victualled; winter is gone, and the winds will serve.

From Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea by Tom Bevan

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

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 Thomas Herbert Russell

The exemption of the sick from these penalties was abolished by James I., and justices were authorized to enter victualing houses and search and forfeit the meat found there.

From Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Emma Goldman

In the victualing department there were 23 women employed.

From Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' by British Government

Traitors are forever worming their way into such societies, and the management exercises typical British discretion in selecting the devotees for its illegal victualing organisation.

From Europe After 8:15 by Thomas H. Benton

Project leaders said it was "an exciting opportunity to examine part of an early victualling yard".

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2022

The following year complaints began to trickle in from victualling yards in the UK and from British seamen around the world that other parts of animals were being found in canned meat.

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2013

A victualling bill serves as a certificate of clearance when there is nothing but stores on board the ship.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various

On the 18th of September, 1740, the squadron, consisting of five men-of-war, a sloop-of-war, and two tenders, or victualling ships, made sail.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 by Frederick Whymper

The mess-caterer is the officer who has been elected to superintend the victualling, as the wine-caterer does the liquor department, and a by-no-means-enviable position it is, and consequently it is for ever changing hands.

From Medical Life in the Navy by Gordon Stables