Jones was cook's mortal enemy; and in the capacity of supplier of fruit and vegetables for kitchen use, he had daily skirmishes with the lady, whom he openly accused of spoiling his choice productions, and sending them to table unfit for use, while she retaliated by telling him often that he could not grow a bit of garden-stuff fit to be seen-that his potatoes were watery, his beetroot pink, his cauliflowers masses of caterpillars and slugs.
"The Star-Gazers"
George Manville Fenn
Drysdale growled and grunted, and wished them or Sanders at the bottom of the sea; however, he consoled himself with the thought that the worst was now passed,-there was no other possible supplier of undergraduate wants who could arrive.
"Tom Brown at Oxford"
Thomas Hughes
Nigeria is the largest country in Black Africa and the second largest oil supplier to the United States.
"State of the Union Addresses of Jimmy Carter"
Jimmy Carter