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Lay up   /leɪ əp/   Listen
Lay up

verb
1.
Disable or confine, as with an illness.





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"Lay up" Quotes from Famous Books



... But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do ...
— The Moscow Census - From "What to do?" • Lyof N. Tolstoi
 
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... the girl was saying, "how much difficulty you lay up for yourself in determining the limits of art! Teach broadly and the fulfilment of your laws will not be such a task for the overworked ...
— The City of Delight - A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem • Elizabeth Miller
 
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... to know if we had any medicines we would sell. I told him I was a doctor, and asked him what was the matter. He had been suffering from remittent fever of a low typhoid type. I gave him bark, and told him he must lay up and take care of himself. He said he would; but next day, during the intervals of fever, I saw him working away with his pan. The news of there being a doctor in the camp soon spread, and I am now being continually called on to prescribe ...
— California • J. Tyrwhitt Brooks
 
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... Elsie endeavored to obey the command. "Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. And ye shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou ...
— Elsie's children • Martha Finley
 
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... not a bit of it! In three days I was as well as ever, only much more cunning than I had been before. In the night I fed in the fields upon whatever I could get, but in the daytime I always lay up in woods. This I did because I found out the shooting was over, and I knew that greyhounds, which run by sight, ...
— The Mahatma and the Hare • H. Rider Haggard
 
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