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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

He also demanded, in addition, 500 cows as victual for his fleet.

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Walter Thornbury

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

Now, home cooks follow restaurant chefs, hoping to glean the secrets of serving exceptional victuals.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 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

She gave me stores, victuals and wine, a cloak divinely woven, and made a warm land breeze come up astern.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

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

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

"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

To this they gladly agreed, and having got ready their ship and victualed it, they set sail with Havelok and his wife for Denmark.

From Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) by Various

Victualling.—The first batch of troops sent out was victualled from the Navy Yards, and this practice was partially continued till early in 1900.

From History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government by Great Britain. War Office

It was well victualled for a siege, at least with grain, of which there was enough in the magazines for two years' consumption.

From History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies by William Hickling Prescott

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

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

Suspending their audacious patrolling before the galleries under construction, these spoilers of the victualled cells alight for an instant on a camomile-flower and lo, the thief is robbed!

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

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 victualing of the little colony offered no immediate difficulty.

From Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space by Jules Verne

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

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

He had been endeavoring, ineffectually, to arrange for an issue of bonds, redeemable at the close of the war, in order to facilitate the victualing of the troops.

From The Downfall by E. P. Robins

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

The problem of how we are to attend to the victualling department must not be lost sight of.

From The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

Vast quantities of corn, rice, and maize were collected here for victualling the ships.

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Walter Thornbury

Two delegations required only good-will—those of the victualling department and of the public or municipal services.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary