lay in provisions
Example Sentences
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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 Emma Speed Sampson
Pericard, however, began to lay in provisions judiciously.
From The Children's Pilgrimage by L. T. Meade
Off I goes at once an’ buys a cart an’ a mule, an’ then I sets to work to lay in provisions.
From The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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 Katharine Prescott Wormeley
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 Irwin Leslie Gordon
