| Running carrier services efficiently involved considerable expenditure on horses together with their equipment and provender. |
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| Current costs consisted of provender, i.e. fodder and bedding, the pay of the workers who looked after the horses, and shoeing. |
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| As the rocket and purslane disappeared, I began to forage Greenmarket for fall provender. |
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| This possibility was very real, for the amount of provender they bore would not have fed them for more than a week. |
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| The children refuse all human food until they are given newly shelled beans, upon which provender they subsist until they learn to eat bread. |
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| He'd kept his father's yeast going halfway across North America, and he was always seeking new sources of provender. |
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| We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in. |
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| He gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him. |
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| Over time, DAR-VIDA was discovered to be ideal hiking provender, especially for mountaineers. |
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| So does Damien Hirst, who is an enthusiastic collector. Banksy provides expensive provender for the contemporary art market, and if this is his strength, it is also his weakness: he is very easy to copy. |
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| You can find foreign accents in this part of Surrey – a vacherin mousse, some ricotta gnocchi, foie gras, orange polenta – but you know they're tolerated only for bringing heady new flavours to the local provender. |
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| Neither food nor provender are supplied in a caravansary, but a porter appointed by the municipal authority is always present, lodged just within the gate. |
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