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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 wanted to victual his ships, and applied to Capt.

From Curiosities of History Boston, September Seventeenth, 1630-1880 by William W. Wheildon

Oh, and if you’re on a tight budget, Walmart is your best bet for healthy victuals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 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

“I’m in charge now. I’ll take the victuals you brought.”

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson

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

No Officer was in future to draw any rations from the Company Cookers, and the Mess Sergeant had somehow procured and victualed a mess-cart.

From "Contemptible", by "Casualty" by

The fortress was armed with 140 guns and abundantly victualled, and the garrison, which had been supplemented by escaped prisoners, was 6000 strong.

From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Count Helmuth

The vessel appropriated for this service had the same name as one of those on Captain Nares’ late expedition—The Discovery—and was of fifty-five tons burden, victualled only, as it seems, for six months.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Frederick Whymper

While she was resting they held a council, and agreed not to renew the attack on the morrow, but recall the troops into the city, which was now well victualled, and there await reinforcements.

From Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages by Various

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

"I gave no orders for the boat to be victualled," exclaimed the kapitan.

From Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

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 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

Nearly two weeks were spent in victualing and fitting her for the dainty lady she was to carry.

From A Song of a Single Note A Love Story by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

On the other side, we see eighty departments who have this day labored, without concert, without mutual understanding, for the victualing of Paris.

From Sophisms of the Protectionists by Horace White

I had a glass of tea with a member of the liberal Cadet Party, and he seemed more concerned with the victualing of the country than with the particular situation in Petrograd.

From World's War Events, Vol. II by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds

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 importance of Gosport increased during the 16th and 17th centuries owing to its position at the mouth of Portsmouth harbour, and its convenience as a victualling station.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various

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

Every American harbor will offer a shelter for the French ships, a market for their prizes, and all the conveniences of repair and victualling; all which being consistent with treaties gives no ground of complaint.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Volume X (of 12) by Various