All 7 Uses of
ration
in
War and Peace
- The Emperor's gratitude was announced to the vanguard, rewards were promised, and the men received a double ration of vodka.†
Chpt 3 *
- …quite prevents my riding and commanding so vast an army, so I have passed on the command to the general next in seniority, Count Buxhowden, having sent him my whole staff and all that belongs to it, advising him if there is a lack of bread, to move farther into the interior of Prussia, for only one day's ration of bread remains, and in some regiments none at all, as reported by the division commanders, Ostermann and Sedmoretzki, and all that the peasants had has been eaten up.†
Chpt 5
- Everything had been eaten up and the inhabitants had all fled—if any remained, they were worse than beggars and nothing more could be taken from them; even the soldiers, usually pitiless enough, instead of taking anything from them, often gave them the last of their rations.†
Chpt 5
- I will offer them monthly rations and housing at our Moscow estate.†
Chpt 10
- It was here that the prisoners for the first time received horseflesh for their meat ration.†
Chpt 13
- Still more senseless would have been the wish to capture army corps of the French, when our own army had melted away to half before reaching Krasnoe and a whole division would have been needed to convoy the corps of prisoners, and when our men were not always getting full rations and the prisoners already taken were perishing of hunger.†
Chpt 14
- One would have thought that under the almost incredibly wretched conditions the Russian soldiers were in at that time—lacking warm boots and sheepskin coats, without a roof over their heads, in the snow with eighteen degrees of frost, and without even full rations (the commissariat did not always keep up with the troops)—they would have presented a very sad and depressing spectacle.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(ration) verb: to restrict the amount of something each person can have -- such as food or gasoline when there is a shortage, or when more is wanted than is available
or:
noun: a fixed portion of something that is given as a person's share -- such as goods of which there is a shortage, or food for soldiers in the field