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Usage examples of provisions.

While I was waiting for the return of the peasant with his vehicle, some forty mules laden with provisions came along the road towards Rimini.

I could sleep if I liked, containing a fire-place, in which I could light a fire if I thought fit, but as to procuring firewood or provisions, he left that all to me.

He had provisions enough for one week, but it was necessary to think of the future.

I was much pleased, for I had been afraid that the women had gone out to get assistance and to have us arrested, and the robbery of our provisions reassured me, as I felt certain that the poor wretches had gone out of the way so as to secure impunity for their theft.

The freedom to come and go without molestation by the sea beggars is cheaply purchased at the price of provisions which do not cost many crowns.

After passing an hour in these lascivious combats we gave each of the girls four ducats, paid for the provisions we had consumed, and sent six Louis to Lucie.

I firmly believed that he would be thought a madman, and that we should not receive anything, but I was mistaken, for such a quantity of provisions came pouring in that I was amazed.

The miserable man did not know what courage was, but he was more robust than myself, and he had, doubtless, taken in provisions before leaving the prison.

Bread, wine, fresh and salt meat, fowls, eggs, cheese, ham, sausages--everything was to be found in those pockets, which contained provisions enough for a fortnight.

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.

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.

I left London that they were not to be supplied with provisions, and they would therefore have had to put out from Dover.

Under cover of the fog supplies of provisions and ammunition were brought by men and women and even children, on their heads or in sledges down the frozen lake, and in spite of the efforts of the besiegers introduced into the city.

Batenburgh brought off, under cover of the mist, a remnant of his troops, but all the provisions and ammunition were lost.

You know that our stock of provisions is small, and that in the end unless help comes we must yield to famine.