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 Mosher, Marion Dix

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)

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)

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 Sampson, Emma Speed