Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 19, 2025
Have you forgotten our steward who looks after everything? He is a more active fellow than I have represented him! To the office of purveyor-general he adds that of universal scavenger. But in the latter department he obtains help.
Old Captain Yorke, a veteran sailor, now retired from active service, was our purveyor-general, going each morning in boat or wagon to the nearest town, whence he brought for us and other families such supplies as we ordered; the Point affording no facilities for marketing or daily household needs.
Schomberg, understanding that he had been blamed in the house of commons for his inactivity, transmitted to the king a satisfactory vindication of his own conduct; and it appeared that the miscarriages in Ireland were wholly owing to John Shales, purveyor-general to the army.
But tell me further, if you please, what is tallow? Tallow is mutton fat, allow me to say, if you never heard it before. Now comes the question, who provided the sheep's fat with such a quantity of hydrogen and carbon as to qualify it for making candles? The sheep's blood undoubtedly, since blood is the purveyor-general of living bodies of the sheep's body as well as of our own.
As we shall have plenty of time to provide the necessary outfit, we will appoint Mr. Darwin purveyor-general of the party, and hold him responsible for any misadventure.
He rewarded "the purveyor-general" with the rank of major-general. While in July, 1863, General Grant was held at Vicksburg by the siege which he successfully prosecuted, the New York draft riots broke out.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking