"We must go on half rations, or quarter rations, if need be.
We are on short rations with not very short food; spin out till to-morrow night.
Four groups of six pigs each were put in four different pens and fed four different rations.
The equipment and rations we carried in weight would have been a respectable load for a mule.
The men cut down their rations, and when the two ladies joked them on their lack of appetite, they said nothing.
The mules are packed and away goes our train of lumber, rations, and camping equipage. The Indian trail is at the foot of the Vermilion Cliffs.
All the castaways could depend on, was to take with them, in the event of the island beginning to sink, what rations they had left when the final shock should come.
The Porto Ricans enlisted in the American regular army are reported to have increased at once in strength, weight, and vigor; the Filipino recruits, thanks to the American army rations, soon outgrew their uniforms.
There was a little business there to be settled--the postmaster was to be paid off for his light but lonely services, and the "inhabitants" had to be furnished with another month's homely rations, as per agreement.
Breakfast was on the table promptly at seven o'clock, and there was very little of it, too; for it was an excellent day for short rations, though Mrs. Ruggles heaved a sigh as she reflected that even the boys, with their India-rubber stomachs, would be just as hungry the day after the dinner-party as if they had never had any at all.