lays by
Example Sentences
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The automobile worker regards it as inevitable and lays by savings to tide him over.
From Time Magazine Archive
Baluk, his stoic face agonized, lays by his tom-tom and draws his robe over his head in the inferno.
From Time Magazine Archive
These he now lays by to pay, some day, for the stock which was given him.
From Time Magazine Archive
For this phase, the Castigator lays by his swine-goad, and Author Lewis, no friend of man but an unerring creator, when he likes, of living women, picks up his imagination, some sympathy and a torch.
From Time Magazine Archive
Who knows when it was first said of a man laying up money, "He lays by for a rainy day"?
From Bits about Home Matters by Helen Hunt Jackson
