lay in provisions
Example Sentences
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But now, though accustomed to buying far closer, Whenever in markets or stores I appear To lay in provisions, the butcher or grocer Will glance at my dollar and quietly sneer.
From More Toasts by Marion Dix Mosher
I fear my fellows have gone off to lay in provisions.
From The Black Douglas by Frank Richards
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 S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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
