Read full poem →That here at once his soul put by
All gifts of time and change,
Dictionary Entry
To preserve (food) by canning, freezing, drying, etc.
In a Sentence
“Our family has been putting food by for generations.”
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Poetry examples for “put by”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →_Adam._ What is it then you wish me to subscribe to?
That we were in a garden put by God,
Allowed to eat of all the trees but one.
Read full poem →Of how your lady’s face and form were fair;
Put by your fluting; swell a martial air,
And spur us on with some prophetic word.”
Read full poem →To make dirt cheap.
Put by the Telescope!
Better without it man may see,
Read full poem →Say what you will, confuse me with fine care,
Put by my word as but an April truth--
Autumn is no less on me that a rose
Read full poem →It cannot fall the young man who died and was buried,
Nor the young woman who died and was put by his side,
Nor the little child that peep’d in at the door, and then drew back