Use provisions in a sentence
Sentences starting with provisions
- Provisions and fuel were always kept here in his father's time. [10]
- Provisions were still wanting. [4]
- Provisions were to be brought him with professions of friendship, and Smith was to be attacked while at supper. [4]
- Provisions ran lower and lower. [5]
- Provisions reached such a figure that "an ass' head was sold for eighty pieces of silver and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver. [5]
Sentences ending with provisions
- Five hundred consumers would prematurely exhaust the already insufficient stock of provisions. [10]
- Let us be very generous, then, in our judgment of those who leave the front ranks of thought for the company of the meek non-combatants who follow with the baggage and provisions. [6]
- Smith apologizes for temporizing with the Indians at this time, by explaining that his purpose was to surprise Powhatan and his store of provisions. [4]
- He did not stop in towns or villages, but camped outside of them and sent his servants in to buy provisions. [5]
- But when they stealthily stole up to the seat of that crafty chief, they found that those "damned Dutchmen" had caused Powhatan to abandon his new house at Werowocomoco, and to carry away all his corn and provisions. [4]
- Lavrushka was saying something about loaded wagons, biscuits, and oxen he had seen when he had gone out for provisions. [2]
- The pirates thoroughly ransacked the vessel, opened all the trunks and portmanteaus, but found little that they wanted except brandy and provisions. [4]
- I know of none which promises so certain results and is at the same time so unobjectionable as the organization of banking associations, under a general act of Congress, well guarded in its provisions. [7]
- Finished to-day, I may say, our whole stack of provisions. [5]
- This gentleman thought it well-intended, but that it would take one constable to every three inhabitants to enforce its provisions. [6]
More example sentences with the word provisions in them
- The supply of wholesome provisions was inadequate. [4]
- The sloop from which they came, and the schooner, its consort, were bound for Gaspe, to bring provisions for several hundred Indians assembled at Miramichi and Aristiguish, who were to go by these same vessels to re-enforce the garrison of Quebec. [11]
- Day before yesterday, when we went about to learn how large a stock of provisions every house contains, people treated me and the others very rudely, many even turned us out of doors. [10]
- What alterations, or what provisions in the way of altering, were going on in committee, Trumbull had no means of knowing, until the altered bill was reported back. [7]
- The law they were passing was not about States, and was not making provisions for States. [7]
- Taking what provisions we could, we left our poor craft upon the rocks, and fought our way to safety. [11]
- The town tax was so strictly enforced at that time at all the gates of Berlin that even hacks entering the city were stopped and searched for provisions of meat or bread--a search which was usually conducted in a cursory and courteous manner. [10]
- His three friends urged Billy to turn back, since they were out of provisions and had no shelter. [11]
- The captain, the two passengers, and eleven men were in the long-boat, with a share of the provisions and water, and with no room to spare, for the boat was only twenty-one feet long, six wide, and three deep. [5]
- It grieves him to have to drink water, because the provisions in his stomach may not agree with the microbes. [5]
- By this desertion they weakened the colony, which waited for their return with the provisions, and they made implacable enemies of the Indians by their violence. [4]
- What right have these sophists to put themselves into a desert place, out of the reach of provisions, and then ground a right to slay deer on their own improvidence? [4]
- To carry out the provisions of the act of Congress of the 15th of May last, I have caused the Department of Agriculture of the United States to be organized. [7]
- The legislation of the last session of Congress has beneficially affected the revenues, although sufficient time has not yet elapsed to experience the full effect of several of the provisions of the acts of Congress imposing increased taxation. [7]
- Many provisions of the imperial will were known, but there was no mention of her son. [10]
- He gazed at the caleches and carriages in which soldiers were riding and remarked that it was a very good thing, as those vehicles could be used to carry provisions, the sick, and the wounded. [2]
- In June of that year Gates sailed again, with six vessels, three hundred men, one hundred cows, besides other cattle, and provisions of all sorts. [4]
- In Palestine he tells of ants that came eleven miles to spend the summer in the desert and brought their provisions with them; yet he shows by his description of the country that the feat was an impossibility. [5]
- With regard to supplies for the army, Napoleon decreed that all the troops in turn should enter Moscow a la maraude * to obtain provisions for themselves, so that the army might have its future provided for. [2]
- It is the sum of those provisions which results in the divesting of title forever. [7]
- We were so starved that we ate up the rest of the Brigade's provisions, and then set out to Carson to tell them about it and ask their forgiveness. [5]
- Many had died, some were sick, Ratcliffe, the late President, was a prisoner for mutiny, Master Scrivener had diligently gathered the harvest, but much of the provisions had been spoiled by rain. [4]
- We laid in some provisions for the trip, engaged carriages to take us to Annunciation, and then moved about the city, to keep awake, till twelve. [5]
- But first he sent to the handful of people in the port a liberal gift of money and wine and provisions from the ship's stores. [11]
- I closed by saying we had plenty of provisions to maintain us for quite a siege--and did they suppose Zermatt would allow half a mile of men and mules to mysteriously disappear during any considerable time, right above their noses, and make no inquiries? [5]
- The provisions to save the starving people are here, the boats are below the city, the wind is contrary, they cannot come up hither. [5]
- They know how safe we are, and to-day orders have come to yield our provisions to the rest of the fleet. [11]
- He had her rigged up with two four-pounders and four swivels, filled her with provisions, and called her the Willing. [9]
- The scanty provisions ran out, hunger was added to the pangs of thirst and weariness, and here and there in the straggling file discontent smouldered and angry undertone was heard. [9]
- We mutinied and put him and four others--their livers were like his own-- in a boat with provisions plenty. [11]
- Moscow, abounding in provisions, arms, munitions, and incalculable wealth, is in Napoleon's hands. [2]
- We had no provisions whatever--in this lay our chief distress. [5]
- They had neither provisions nor water. [5]
- They brought their provisions from Ain Mellahah--eleven miles. [5]
- For days neither provisions for the men nor fodder for the horses had been issued. [2]
- Notwithstanding these ample provisions for the colony, Smith had small expectation that it would thrive without him. [4]
- There are no provisions for foundations, thickness of walls, size of timbers and columns, and if these houses had been deliberately erected to make a bonfire they couldn't have answered the purpose better. [9]
- All the usual provisions for comfort made by seagoing experts we had attended to. [6]
- With ten days' provisions Captain Josiah Mitchell performed this memorable voyage of forty-three days and eight hours in an open boat, sailing four thousand miles in reality and thirty-three hundred and sixty by direct courses, and brought every man safe to land. [5]
- When, I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, or that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. [7]
- I am not posted as to its particular provisions, but if they are generally satisfactory, and the bill shall now pass, there will be an end for the present. [7]
- I will also pay for the wheat which was thrown into the river, and you shall have a share of our provisions, got from the Indians. [11]
- I can't make out what the commander at Korchevo--a certain Khandrikov--is up to; till now the additional men and provisions have not arrived. [2]
- The Mistress slipped out into the kitchen to fill a basket with provisions and send it somewhere; and when the Fire-Tender brought in a new forestick, Mandeville, who always wants to talk, and had been sitting drumming his feet and drawing deep sighs, attacked him. [4]
- By and by our provisions began to run short, and we went back to the old camp and laid in a new supply. [5]
- Then came an order to retreat to Sventsyani and destroy any provisions they could not carry away with them. [2]
- The Supreme Court of the State was organized, and judges appointed, according to the provisions of the Constitution, in 1824. [7]
- He was short of provisions, short of arms, short of ammunition, short of military wisdom, short of everything but courage and devotion to duty. [5]
- I am out of provisions, out of money. [5]
- In the production of provisions, grains, grasses, and all which proceed from them this great interior region is naturally one of the most important in the world. [7]
- A large amount of provisions and ammunition, which they left behind them, fell into the hands of the Indians. [5]
- So the fleet of boats came up and went away loaded with provisions and cattle, and conveyed that welcome succor to the hungry city, managing the matter successfully under protection of a sortie from the walls against the bastille of St. Loup. [5]
- Has a habit of attacking her provisions in school-hours.--Rosa Milburn. [6]
- Similar provisions are not uncommon in connection with proceedings in rem. [7]
- If there are not there, we have only the chance, for a few days, of a stray ship, for we cannot eke out the provisions more than five or six days longer, and our strength is failing very fast. [5]
- The illustrious host moved about from place to place, and helped to destroy the provisions and keep the conversation lively, and the Grand Duchess talked with the verandah parties and such as had satisfied their appetites and straggled out from the reception room. [5]
- Men, provisions, and money were offering in plenty now, and Joan appointed Blois as a recruiting-station and depot of supplies, and ordered up La Hire from the front to take charge. [5]
- Three or four members of the Brigade had been there and located some timber lands on its shores and stored up a quantity of provisions in their camp. [5]
- If such arise, let proper legal provisions be made for them with the least possible delay, but till then let them, if not too intolerable, be borne with. [7]
- I don't like keeping provisions in a cupboard, locking up, being pillaged, and all that. [14]
- All that the judge can do under the indiscriminating provisions of the statute is to make a fair guess at what the man should suffer. [4]
- He said that its provisions were simple. [5]
- A hundred miles it was across the trackless wilds, and each man was ordered to carry on his back provisions for four days only. [9]
- They can turn it into a picnic if they want to--they brought plenty provisions. [5]
- I only use it because "the gentle reader" has been used so often that any change from it can not but be refreshing: "Save us and sanctify us, and finally, then, See good provisions we enjoy while we journey to Jerusalem. [5]
- New provisions would introduce new difficulties, and thus create and increase appetite for further change. [7]
- Some time, he intimated, he might make more lasting provisions with trustees. [4]
- Of course, the indeterminate sentence would radically change our criminal jurisprudence and our statutory provisions in regard to criminals. [4]
- After the half-day in which he was permitted to make due preparations, lay in store of provisions, and purchase a few sheep and hens, hither came David Claridge. [11]
- We shall be in the saddle three weeks--we have horses, tents, provisions, arms, a dragoman and two other servants, and we pay five dollars a day apiece, in gold. [5]
- We put eighteen hundred pounds of provisions and mining tools in the wagon and drove out of Carson on a chilly December afternoon. [5]
- It is twelve hundred miles to the Sandwich Islands; the provisions are virtually exhausted, but not the perishing diarist's pluck. [5]
- He was forced, however, to return without having accomplished his object, after having miserably lost the greater part of his army by heat and the scarcity of provisions. [10]
- On one of his foraging expeditions, in a deserted and ruined village to which he had come in search of provisions, Rostov found a family consisting of an old Pole and his daughter with an infant in arms. [2]
- More than this, he says the articles in that paper and the provisions of the Lecompton Constitution are "identical," and, being identical, he argues that the authors are co-operating and conspiring together. [7]
- Til night, neither he nor they did either eate or drinke, and then they feasted merrily, and with the best provisions they could make. [4]
- So we had half the fellows up, and giving them fishing-lines, rum, and provisions, with a couple of muskets and ammunition, we sent them off to shift for themselves, and, raising anchor, got on our way down the broad river, in perfect weather. [11]
- We became as haggard and woe-begone a lot as ever ate provisions impregnated with salt; we turned wistfully from claret to a teaspoonful of water, and had tongues like pieces of blotting-paper. [11]
- They said that had we held out a little longer Napoleon would have been done for, as his troops had neither provisions nor ammunition. [2]
- If the travelers had known the capacities and resources of the country, they would not have started without a supply train, or the establishment of bases of provisions in advance. [4]
- Once the house had been spacious enough to shelter a numerous family and to store a great quantity of goods and provisions, but it was now long since the ruinous chambers had been occupied. [10]
- This solitary conduct got him the name of a hermit, whose food was thought to be more of venison than anything else, but in fact his men kept him supplied with provisions. [4]
- He can't be going to the Browns' for vegetables, for they set great store by their own raising this year; and they don't get their provisions up this way either, because Mary Ellen quarreled with Simmons's people last year. [4]
- No, he's never going to see Eliza, and if it isn't provisions or love it's nothing short of sickness. [4]
- We must either give up our stock of provisions or run for it. [11]
- He ought to get the Indians more together--get them together in some convenient place, where he could have provisions enough for both parties, and then have a general massacre. [5]
- Davoust had sent forty wagons of provisions to Hamburg, and the men were ordered to capture them. [10]
- To now reinforce Fort Pickens before a crisis would be reached at Fort Sumter was impossible--rendered so by the near exhaustion of provisions in the latter-named fort. [7]
- The birds that fly over the land carry their provisions with them. [5]
- The smoke and flame drove the men back, and they had to stop their incomplete work of fetching provisions, and take to the boats with only ten days' rations secured. [5]
- After dinner she filled a canvas-bag with provisions for Adrian, who was going on a boating excursion with several friends, and then sat at the window in her chamber. [10]
- He re-clothed his family, laid in a good stock of provisions, and still had money left. [5]
- Quatgelat was to enquire about the quantity of provisions in Leyden. [10]
- But W. would drift about through the mountain gorges for days together, in a purposeless sort of way, until the provisions of the miners ran out, and they would have to go back home. [5]
- On the second day out, we arrived, very tired and hungry, at a poor little inn in the desert, and were told that the house was full, no provisions on hand, and neither hay nor barley to spare for the horses--must move on. [5]
- Since the 1st day of January last the before-mentioned quantity of 1,456,514 acres of land have been taken up under its provisions. [7]
- You knew the cook was behind the door, and plenty of provisions behind her. [5]
- If no relief comes and the provisions are consumed, we shall be forced to open the gates to the enemy, and then, Maria, imagine what will happen! [10]
- Our flies are carried in wagons, and our utensils and provisions. [9]
- Next in order came five Frenchmen, trapped by our scouts, nor had they any provisions. [9]
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