lay in provisions

Example Sentences

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Joe's brethren came down to Egypt to lay in provisions.

From Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be by Gordon, Irwin Leslie

That means I must run into Ryeville and buy some more baskets and lay in provisions of all kinds.

From The Comings of Cousin Ann by Sampson, Emma Speed

I would lay in provisions to serve a year in case of siege.

From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

I fear my fellows have gone off to lay in provisions.

From The Black Douglas by Richards, Frank

Never did they lay in provisions, except perhaps a bunch of garlic or onions, which could not spoil and cost but little.

From The Village Rector by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott