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 Sampson, Emma Speed

Pericard, however, began to lay in provisions judiciously.

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

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)

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)

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