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
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
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
I fear my fellows have gone off to lay in provisions.
From The Black Douglas by Richards, Frank
