viand
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Salmon is as nice when it is a shilling a pound as when it is four times that price, and venison is by no means an expensive viand if the market be watched.
From Household Organization by Caddy, Florence
Karl and Caspar had refrained from the uncooked viand until their appetite could resist no longer; and then the raw flesh of the bear became palatable enough.
From The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains by Reid, Mayne
I liked pie, but not pudding; the rich, heavy fruit-cake of weddings, good, honest gingerbread, the brisk, crispy heat of the brittle ginger-snap, but not "plain cake,"—absurd viand!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various
The favourites with the writer are a brave old soldier p. viand his helpmate, an ancient gentlewoman who sold apples, and a strange kind of wandering man and his wife.
From Lavengro The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest by Borrow, George Henry
At that time he preferred serving food to being a viand for those who gormandized oddities.
From An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)
Vocabulary lists containing viand
Frankenstein
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The Tempest
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