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 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
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
I fear my fellows have gone off to lay in provisions.
From The Black Douglas by Frank Richards
These shops are therefore resorted to for family supplies day by day; and the poor lay in provisions there in portions graduated to a soldo of their ready means.
From Venetian Life by William Dean Howells
