Word: victuals
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Aboard the Emden his captives lived like kings. The larder was always full. Pet kittens, two pigs, some lambs, a pigeon, geese had the run of the ship. There was a band concert every afternoon. Finally the ship had so much victual booty that an extra meal was served: afternoon coffee with bonbons...
...like a dreary dawn" beckon him over the river to while away the evening hours. In the course of his peregrinations intellectual needs often give way to the more physical delights of food and nourishment. The old fellow has happened upon many an interesting and delectable dish in various victual houses far from the madding crowd...
...Breckenridge, who will speak in Sanders Theatre to morrow night, is a member of Congress from Kentucky, and has been, since Mr. Carlisle's translation to the Senate, the victual leader of his party in the House. He has the reputation of being the finest orator-critically speaking-now in political life; and his delivery of the oration at Plymouth two summers ago, went far to establish this reputation, which he had before made in debate on the floor. Mr. Breckerridge speaks tonight in Tremont Temple on the Southern Question, but his speech in Sanders Theatre will be still more...