Meanings of broken victuals in English

These relics are obviously, for the most part, table-leavings, broken victuals.

There is no quarrelling with a man who prefers broken victuals.

Their broken victuals would have been a banquet to me.

Neither is there any waste of broken victuals.

Give me broken victuals, if I send for them each day;

She went home to her husband every night, and she carried broken victuals wrapped in papers in her side pockets.

Bakers brought stale bread; butchers, refuse meat; citizens, their broken victuals-all rejoicing in being freed from the nuisance of beggary.

Nor does the mother extend an invitation to them to come and recruit themselves, nor put any broken victuals aside for them.

Beggars mustn't be choosers, said he, feebly, in his sad heart, and he thankfully took the broken victuals Jacob Van Boozenberg threw him.

Jeanne, inspired suddenly, said, "I will beg for them," and seizing a basket she went out to beg for broken victuals.

Such nice bits as those good old gentlemen have left for you! There is no quarrelling with a man who prefers broken victuals.

And as it is with broken victuals, so it is with rags and bones, and old iron, and all the debris of a household.

Then her employers, being good, kind, generous, Christian people, came to the rescue and bestowed charity, in the form of cast-off clothing and broken victuals.