rations

But the rations are short, very short-- so short, Dr.

"Friends, Romans, and countrymen, lend me your ears!"(They were all of them fond of quotations: So they drank to his health, and they gave him three cheers, While he served out additional rations).

The better to do so, I went afoot, armed with a Henry rifle and carrying three days' rations in my haversack.

During the first few days they were busy discharging the cargo brought by the flotilla, the machines, and the rations, as well as a large number of huts constructed of iron plates, separately pieced and numbered.

I divided the food in the pantry, into rations to last us ten days.

We gazed helplessly at the systematic, cold, gray-eyed obstinacy of the Easterly weather, while short rations became the order of the day, and the pinch of hunger under the breast-bone grew familiar to every sailor in that held-up fleet.

Most mellifluously did he purr as we crowded around to stroke him; with friendly joy he licked our hands with his little red tongue; poor Paddy was a thankful cat; he was no longer lost, starving, imprisoned, helpless; he was with his comrades once more and he was going home--home to his old familiar haunts of orchard and dairy and granary, to his daily rations of new milk and cream, to the cosy corner of his own fireside.

"You don't admit, I know, that one can be fond of new rolls when one has had one's rations of bread--to your mind it's a crime; but I don't count life as life without love," he said, taking Levin's question his own way.

He was standing in the messroom at the time and the evening rations were being served out.

In two well-closed coffers, placed beneath the benches of the prow and the poop, Aramis found bread, biscuit, dried fruits, a quarter of bacon, a good provision of water in leathern bottles; the whole forming rations sufficient for people who did not mean to quit the coast, and would be able to revictual, if necessity commanded.

The pound and a half of sun-dried salmon, which was his ration for each day, seemed to go nowhere.

The Emperor's gratitude was announced to the vanguard, rewards were promised, and the men received a double ration of vodka.