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 fear my fellows have gone off to lay in provisions.
From The Black Douglas by Frank Richards
Pericard, however, began to lay in provisions judiciously.
From The Children's Pilgrimage by L. T. Meade
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
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
