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lay away

verb

see lay aside , def. 2.

He does it just as men lay away money for ‘a rainy day,’ as we say, and as squirrels lay up a store of nuts for the cold weather.

A little while after this Mrs. Morris was called to lay away her blue-eyed boy out of sight.

And there was even some wood, for Mr. 'Possum had worked hard to lay away a supply of things for a long snowed-in time.

Let us perform our duty to-day; let us lay away a kindly act, a smile, a word of cheer in the bank of good deeds.

Winona, would you kindly lay away that piece of literatuah and wok the Gabriel hon?

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