lay in provisions

Example Sentences

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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 Howells, William Dean

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 Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

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)

Pericard, however, began to lay in provisions judiciously.

From The Children's Pilgrimage by Meade, L. T.

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