lay in provisions

Example Sentences

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I fear my fellows have gone off to lay in provisions.

From The Black Douglas by Richards, Frank

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

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)

Joe's brethren came down to Egypt to lay in provisions.

From Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be by Gordon, Irwin Leslie

Pericard, however, began to lay in provisions judiciously.

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