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lays up

vb. (en-third-person singularlay up)

Usage examples of "lays up".

Once he lays up in an abandoned shedthis is just over the California state line from Nevadaand drinks for four days straight.

It may be that he lays up no treasures in this world which will cool his summer drink in the next.

Saturday nights I expect they goes in to Port Livingstone an' lays up over Sunday.

This youngster is a dead shot and he's the kind that lays up in the country and watches for a good shot.

Upon this income he lives in one of the northern counties, about 200 miles distant from London, and lays up £.

He might have been an animal laying up rest beneath his hide as the bear lays up fat against hibernation.

But to pass by the mighty Elephant, which the Earth breeds and nourisheth, and descend to the least of creatures, how doth the earth afford us a doctrinal example in the little Pismire, who in the summer provides and lays up her winter provision, and teaches man to do the like!

And this one's told her she won't get well unless she lays up and don't do a thing about the house—.