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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

There might have been seen great nobles, plenty of all manner of strange victual.

From Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies Volume I by Anonymous

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

“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

"Conceive him now in a man-of-war;      with his letters of mart, well armed, victualed, and appointed,      and see how he acquits himself."

From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville

The other ships there were also to be victualled, and the Piranza was directed to join at once.

From With Cochrane the Dauntless by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

As for the assailants, as soon as they saw conclusive proof that the blockade had been broken and the city victualled, they found themselves deserted by the ally on whose aid they had most counted.

From The Angel of the Revolution A Tale of the Coming Terror by George Chetwynd Griffith

They were victualled only for a very short voyage.

From Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I by Sir John Ross

The place was strong, so far as walls and bulwarks could make it, but it was not well victualled, and after a five-weeks' siege it was obliged to capitulate.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Rossiter Johnson

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

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

As a rule--though I say it before men accustomed to victualing ships--our crews are vilely provided for.

From By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

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

The women pressed close to the water's edge; with eyes fixed upon the ships, they awaited anxiously the issue of the combat upon which depended the victualing of their city.

From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Eug?ne Sue

The detections, particularly in the victualing hoys and transports, since the establishment of the Marine Police, prove the existence of the evil, and the wide field which it embraces.

From A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention by Patrick Colquhoun

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

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

Her victualling was for eighteen months; and there was put on board of her ten carriage and ten swivel guns, together with an ample store of ammunition and other necessaries.

From Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods by Andrew Kippis

But the provisions on board his two caravels were nearly exhausted, and the victualling tender under the command of his brother was missing.

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