husbanding

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Husbanding agents arrange everything from fuel to spare parts to fresh vegetables for vessels at ports of call.

From Time Magazine Archive

Husbanding their provisions as well as they could, they at last decided to start on their return to the outside world.

From The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure by Sayler, H. L. (Harry Lincoln)

Husbanding this miserable supply, they dried the flesh, and for three days subsisted upon the nutriment extracted from the bones.

From The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West by Bonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de

Husbanding my ebbing strength, I no longer sought to fight, I strove only to reach the place where my family was in danger.

From The Brass Bell or, The Chariot of Death by De Leon, Solon