Her tocher was a mere thirty chalders of victual from the Oliphant estates. |
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A whole new industry was created and the steep sides of the Douro valley terraced and planted to victual the English shires. |
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Indeed he was never out of Europe, apart from a two-day trip to Tunis during the Second World War to victual the British Eighth Army that had just defeated Rommel. |
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Deer hunting is a way to reach as far back into the victual procurement process as possible to obtain healthy and delicious food. |
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She confesses that her favorite restaurant in town is Febo, where the comestibles are arrayed behind little glass doors, Automat style, a sort of victual version of the red-light district. |
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Products delivered to the Canary Islands under the specific supply arrangements and used to victual ships and aeroplanes shall be deemed to have been consumed locally. |
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He was not able to keep that place three days for lack of victual. |
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The Victual Brothers of Gotland were a companionship of privateers who later turned to piracy as the Likedeelers. |
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In the 15th century, the city was attacked several times by the Victual Brothers, and in 1429 they succeeded in burning the royal castle and much of the city. |
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In the period between the 8th and 14th centuries, there was much piracy in the Baltic from the coasts of Pomerania and Prussia, and the Victual Brothers even held Gotland. |
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