viand

Example Sentences

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And so, for four months thereafter, we had to do penance for the joke, on that not very luxurious viand "dry porridge."

From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Miller, Hugh

Served on a platter that is hot, and carved with thin, keen knife, How does this savory viand enhance the worth of life!

From Second Book of Verse by Field, Eugene

Not until one has tried does one realize to what excellence and variety this form of viand lends itself.

From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Cooke, Maud C.

The supper chamber in Chiari was most sumptuously laid out,—vermicelli soup, flesh, fowls, cheese, pastry, wine,—every viand, in short, that could tempt the appetite.

From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by Wylie, James Aitken

To provide something for breakfast besides, a viand rare and strange, but familiar to them, a branch of their tribe—the “Mezcaleros”—making it their staple food, even to deriving their tribal appellation from it.

From The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora by Reid, Mayne