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
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
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
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
