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Sentences starting with food

Food and drink were handed to the captives through a wicket in the door. [10]
Food and fire, the priceless comfort of a blanket on the ground, and a saddle or kit for a pillow gave men compensation for all the hardships and dangers of the day; and they gave little thought to the morrow. [11]
Food he could not taste, but something he must have to carry him on. [4]
Food he could not eat; and tea, water, and even brandy he rejected. [4]
Food will I not eat, nor water drink until thou art mine--by the law of the Prophet, mine. [11]
Food is nothing, if there is no digestive act to respond to it. [3]
Food melts before him like ice before the sun. [10]
Food and drink disgusted him, and he could neither work nor sit still. [10]
Food dwindles, and ammunition's nearly gone, and they'll have the cold steel in our scalp-locks if we stay. [11]
Food failed. [5]

Sentences ending with food

But, Mr. Mallow, you haven't said you've had no dinner, and you'll not be going to bed in this house without your food. [11]
Somebody has been writing to me about "Oatmeal and Literature," and somebody else wants to know whether I have found character influenced by diet; also whether, in my opinion, oatmeal is preferable to pie as an American national food. [6]
Ursula was growing weak herself, and showed it; and she ate of the food that was offered her like a starving person, but could not be persuaded to carry any home, for Marget would not eat charity food. [5]
He says it was--brought on by the heat, and want of food--good food. [9]
All day long, under the burning sun, he follows the herd over the rainless prairie, as it nibbles here and there the short grass and slowly gathers its food. [4]
It is sweet to the taste; horses and cattle are fond of it, and when they have once eaten it they prefer it to anything else, and often refuse other food. [4]
It is common to hear every form of bodily degeneracy and infirmity attributed to this particular favorite food. [6]
There can, I think, be no doubt that a dog feels shame, as distinct from fear, and something very like modesty when begging too often for food. [1]
Woe be to the incautious who, lulled by a week of fancied security, ventured out into the dishevelled field for a little food! [9]
The brain of the bird is not large; but it is all concentrated on one object, and that is the attempt to elude the devices of modern civilization which injure his chances of food. [4]

Short sentences using food

All food gone.--Captain's Log. [5]
Willing brought no food. [9]
It wasn't good food. [5]
They are food, drink, maintenance. [10]
Food! [11]

Sentences containing food two or more times

But as food was too precious to be given to foreigners, who were for the most part enemies, Napoleon preferred to supply them with money with which to purchase food from outside, and had paper rubles distributed to them. [2]
The truth was that Dudley Veneer and Helen Darley met as two travellers might meet in the desert, wearied, both of them, with their long journey, one having food, but no water, the other water, but no food. [6]
I think, as one grows older, less food, especially less animal food, is required. [6]
Something is due in our case to the accumulation of money, to the decrease in an increasing number of our population of the daily anxiety about food and clothes, to more leisure; but abundant and better-prepared food is the direct agency in our physical change. [4]
He never was hungry,--could go any time from breakfast to tea without food and not know it, but was always ready for food when it was set before him. [6]
Increased number of cases for the doctor followed want of sufficient food and the eating of cheap, unwholesome food. [4]
Pierre sat down by the fire and began eating the mash, as they called the food in the cauldron, and he thought it more delicious than any food he had ever tasted. [2]
Denied its food at home, good food, my soul eagerly consumed and made part of itself the fermenting stuff that Alec Pound so willing distributed. [9]

More example sentences with the word food in them

But by 'happiness' you, mean something more than the complacency and contentment which clothing and food might bring, and the removal of the economic fear,--and even the restoration of self-respect. [9]
I was sure you would not go; it would take the food from my family's mouths. [5]
The head tells you pretty promptly whether the food is satisfactory or not; and everybody hears, and thinks the whole man has spoken. [5]
There, once a year, one caravan comes, and, at the outskirts of the place unclean, leaves food and needful things for another year, and returns again to Egypt after many days. [11]
The throng of workers at the granaries had lessened; most of them were now supplied with as much food as they could carry. [10]
I offered the woman food and liquor, but she refused both. [5]
After two days without food or drink, I managed to get out through the barred window. [11]
They were people with whom good food wouldn't agree. [4]
Our quarrel is with Parliament and the Admiralty; our struggle is with the people of the kingdom, who have not seen to it that our wrongs are put right, that we have food to eat, water to drink, and money to spend. [11]
It furnishes them with food and clothing. [6]
If you do, will you give me enough to live on--enough to buy a suit of clothes a year, to pay for food and a room? [11]
Tinoir shot no wild animals for profit--only for food and for skins and furs to wear. [11]
He asked me why I went on eating the food bought with such money, living under his roof? [9]
Then; for a while, he had gained a meagre living by sewing up bursted sacks of grain on the piers; when that failed he had found food here and there as chance threw it in his way. [5]
That first long whiff was like the indrawn breath of the cold, starved hunter, when, stepping into his house, he sees food, fire, and wife on his hearthstone. [11]
We must determine which of us shall die to furnish food for the rest! [5]
She remembered that, when her father and others had slept so long after the prairie fire, she had waked them once to give them drink and a little food, and they did not breathe so heavily as he was doing. [11]
Taking stock of what he brought in, Smith found food enough to last till the next harvest, and at once organized the company into bands of ten or fifteen, and compelled them to go to work. [4]
He represents that what food "he carefully provided the rest carelessly spent," and there is probably much truth in his charges that the settlers were idle and improvident. [4]
Few people that were able to read took food that morning. [5]
We know dam' well there is food buried in the yard or under the floor, and it would be droll to open the place for a day--Lost Man's Tavern, we called it. [11]
The Ariadne is well supplied with food and water. [11]
About the third week in March there was a change; a low wandering delirium came on; and in it she begged constantly for food and even for stimulants. [14]
We were both weak through want of food and the effect of the sun. [5]
What food and water were there within? [11]
Brinsmade, if it wasn't for you and your friends on the Western Sanitary Commission, we'd all have been dead of fever and bad food long ago. [9]
And indeed it was; he tried not to seem to see the looks or hear the remarks as he passed along, but they were food and drink to him. [5]
After the offering was made to the sea, we partook of the cocoanut and returned home, when my mother gave me some food; but Tookaram did not partake of any food that night. [5]
A small fish was in the frying-pan, crisp and brown and tempting, and one could see that Marget was not expecting such respectable food as this. [5]
For our food was gone, and no game was to be shot over this watery waste. [9]
But Croesus, I was begotten and nursed by Egyptian parents, nourished on Egyptian food, and though I have accepted much that is Greek, am still, in my innermost being, an Egyptian. [10]
Lying beside him was a leather bag, within which were odds and ends of food and some small books of legend and ritual. [11]
I have food, warmth, leisure, books, friends. [6]
The room was warm and close, it reeked with the smell of stale food, but at least she found relief from that other odour. [9]
A current of warm air, redolent of beer and food, met the travellers as they entered the large, low room, dimly lighted by the tiny windows, scarcely more than loop-holes, pierced in two sides. [10]
It is no valid objection to this conclusion that animals suddenly supplied with an excess of food, or when grown very fat; and that most plants on sudden removal from very poor to very rich soil, are rendered more or less sterile. [1]
He had promised us, instead of this place of bondage, a new and delightful home where we should dwell free men, amid fruitful fields and rich pastures, which would supply food to every man and his family and make all hearts rejoice. [10]
Again he gently urged the food upon her, and she took a little; but now and then she put her hand to her side as if in pain. [11]
Here they were upon a now hostile shore without food, fire, shelter, and weapons; their situation was desperate even yet. [11]
They could close up every entrance, and live unscathed; for here was land for tilling, and wood, and wild fruit, and food for cattle. [11]
The Commissioner was uncertain what to do, as the Crees were restless through want of food and the absence of game, and a force sent to capture Arrowhead, the chief who had committed the murder, might precipitate trouble. [11]
That evening it turned bitter cold, and without the ammunition promised by Phips, with little or no food and useless field-pieces, their lot was hard. [11]
You don't make trouble, you don't find fault with your vit--[Dr. Benjamin had schooled his parent on this point and she altered the word] with your food, and you know when you 've had enough. [6]
I had not touched either for a year, and now I could see that my fingers, as they closed on the food nervously, were thin and bloodless, and I realized that my clothes hung loose upon my person. [11]
He invents weapons, tools, and various stratagems to procure food and to defend himself. [1]
The Magian then took a mortar, laid some leaves and stalks of the sacred herb Haomas within it, crushed them and poured the ruddy juice, the food of the gods, into the flames. [10]
The distinction extended to the fare, for wine frequently circulated only above the salt, and below it the food was of coarser quality. [4]
Then he roused to the call of action, to the many things he needed to do in the way of making camp fixtures and utensils, to the necessity of hunting food, and the desire to explore the valley. [13]
He had forgotten to strengthen himself with food and drink, and the terrible blows of fate which had fallen upon him during these last hours of trial crushed, though but for a short time, his still vigorous strength. [10]
It soon came to prefer sheep meat to any other food, and by and by it came to prefer the kidney-fat to any other detail of the sheep. [5]
I should like to know how much food it took at one time to make an impression on him; I should like to know what effect an idea of ordinary size had in his capacious head. [4]
It was impossible to give battle before information had been collected, the wounded gathered in, the supplies of ammunition replenished, the slain reckoned up, new officers appointed to replace those who had been killed, and before the men had had food and sleep. [2]
He was thin to gauntness, ate ravenously of the food that was set before him, and throwing off his soaked moccasins, he spread his scalded feet to the blaze, and the steaming odor of drying leather filled the room. [9]
She would pretend to fast for days, living on food she had concealed and took secretly in the night. [6]
He invited me to eat, and the food they brought might have tempted a full man to excess, but I could only swallow a few mouthfuls. [10]
If Germany continues to destroy shipping on the seas, if we are not able to supply our new armies and the Allied nations with food and other things, the increasing social ferment will paralyze the military operations of the Entente. [9]
The seniors tried to collect straw and potatoes and, in general, food for the men. [2]
Paulus was nowhere to be seen, but there stood the food he had prepared for her. [10]
The first hundred to arrive, ten hours in a hot car without food or water, were laid groaning on the bottom of great furniture vans, and carted to the new House of Refuge Hospital, two miles to the south of the city. [9]
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe; but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die. [5]
At the same time he was consumed by a violent thirst, for neither food nor drink had touched his lips for the same length of time. [10]
He affirmed that this was the case and added, that he had just come from Nitetis, that she had wept the whole day, and neither tasted food nor drink. [10]
Yet portions of this unwholesome food which we call medicine, we have reason to believe, are assimilated; thus, castor-oil appears to be partially digested by infants, so that they require large doses to affect them medicinally. [3]
I formally declare this reading-room open, and I think that the legislature should not compel a community to provide itself with intelligent food, but give it the privilege of providing it if the community so desires. [5]
Since we breakfasted, this morning, we have seen enough to have furnished us food for a year's reflection if we could have seen the various objects in comfort and looked upon them deliberately. [5]
She had been thinking of her recent visit to the King's Cave, where she had left food, and of the fact that Carbourd was not there. [11]
Ay, a grand thing I thought it would be, too, to go riding round the world on a well-washed deck, with plenty of food and grog, and maybe, by-and-by, to be first mate, and lord it from fo'castle bunk to stern-rail. [11]
They mean business--maybe they're going for food or water, or both. [5]
Indeed at times they are deprived of food and drink for some days, simply to accustom them to privations. [10]
Huck had slept there; he had just breakfasted upon some stolen odds and ends of food, and was lying off, now, in comfort, with his pipe. [5]
What power was there in desert life that could make this poor camel-driver, at the end of a long day of weariness and toil and little food and drink, sing a song of content and cheerfulness? [11]
Only now and then a tremor of the mouth, as he slowly chewed his food, or a slight raising of the eye-brows, betrayed that one shaft or another had not wholly missed its mark. [10]
They take with them a quantity of food, and when the commissary department fails they "skirmish," as Jack terms it in his sinful, slangy way. [5]
As soon as their stomachs had been properly reinforced with food, their spirits began to rise fast; when the mead began to go round they rose faster. [5]
They went to their regular meals in the English ship, and pretty soon they were nibbling again--nibbling, appetiteless, disgusted with the food, moody, miserable, half hungry, their outraged stomachs cursing and swearing and whining and supplicating all day long. [5]
They saw only the yellow sand, the ever-receding oasis, the brackish, undrinkable water, the withered and fruitless date- tree, handfuls of dourha for their food by day, and the keen, sharp night to chill their half-dead bodies in a half-waking sleep. [11]
I confess that the two last are clear to me also; still, I could exist without them, though in a miserable fashion, but without food, where should we be? [10]
Cook remarks that the superiority in personal appearance "which is observable in the erees or nobles in all the other islands (of the Pacific) is found in the Sandwich Islands"; but this may be chiefly due to their better food and manner of life. [1]
It isn't for the sake of food and wages that I've been waiting about so long in hopes to see you. [12]
The editor has the more than royal power of selecting the intellectual food of a large public. [4]
All present, even the men and maid-servants, were still devoting themselves to the food, when the master of the house rose, and pressing both hands over the back of his head, which was very prominently developed, exclaimed groaning: "I can hold out no longer. [10]
The members of the Majority went out by detachments from time to time and took naps upon sofas in the reception-rooms; and also refreshed themselves with food and drink--in quantities nearly unbelievable--but the Minority stayed loyally by their champion. [5]
Idiots also resemble the lower animals in some other respects; thus several cases are recorded of their carefully smelling every mouthful of food before eating it. [1]
The imagination drank the living stream, and we realized anew what delusive food the imagination furnishes in an actual strait. [4]
The fleet hasn't the food to sail. [11]
The smell of the food the Preobrazhenskis were eating and a sense of hunger recalled him from these reflections; he had to get something to eat before going away. [2]
At that moment the food and drink came. [11]
He complained of the food all the way over, and was always threatening to go ashore unless there was a change. [5]
It includes in the first place physical comfort for every person willing and deserving to be physically comfortable, decent lodging, good food, sufficient clothing. [4]
In the end the fines ate up our crop--and they took it all; they took it all and made us harvest it for them, without pay or food, and we starving. [5]
They had forgotten the faith of food and blanket. [11]
Tears stand in the eyes of many a man as he eats the food his Yankee brothers have given him on the birthday of their country. [9]
On coming to the dinner-table, that day, he complained of headache, took but little food, and refused the cup of coffee which Elsie offered him, saying that it did not agree with him when he had these attacks. [6]
They also desired the dearest food, and would have no meat from the butcher's but the most delicate, while their list of fruits, cakes, Gates, and outlandish confections is as long as that at any modern banquet. [4]
Arrowhead rose slowly, the cloud gone out of his face, and spoke to his people, bidding them wait in peace until food came, and appointing his son chief in his stead until his return. [11]
Accidents had befallen the canoes which carried the food, and the country through which they passed was almost devoid of game. [11]
We baled out the canoe and ferried over some food and blankets for them, but we slept one more night in the inn before making another venture on our journey. [5]
When I visited the Bay of Islands in 1835, the dress and food of the inhabitants had already been much modified: they raised potatoes, maize, and other agricultural produce, and exchanged them for English manufactured goods and tobacco. [1]
There again was the angled, low-celled room of the country tavern, reeking with food and lamps and perspiration; for a central figure the man of surpassing homeliness,--coatless, tieless, and vestless,--telling a story in the vernacular. [9]
The American food, the American jokes and voices in that environment seemed strange indeed! [9]

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