English vocabulary examples in context: abide
Vocabulary in context: abide -- Example 1.
In short, as Camilla is the essence of all beauty, so is she the treasure-house where purity dwells, and gentleness and modesty abide with all the virtues that can confer praise, honour, and happiness upon a woman.
Vocabulary in context: abide -- Example 2.
I believe they went to the trouble of putting an extra amount of garlic into our food, and I can't abide garlic.
Vocabulary in context: abide -- Example 3.
In this breast, madam, will abide for ever the pleasant memory of the time which I have spent with you.
Vocabulary in context: abide -- Example 4.
On seeing the boy, she patted his cheek and expressed satisfaction at his physique; whereupon the fact became disclosed that here he was to abide for a while, for the purpose of attending a local school.
Vocabulary in context: abide -- Example 5.
Surely the winds themselves must abide in their manes, and every vein in their bodies be an ear stretched to catch the celestial message which bids them, with iron-girded breasts, and hooves which barely touch the earth as they gallop, fly forward on a mission of God?
Vocabulary in context: abide -- Example 6.
You are a man who has seen something of life--to use your own words, you have been a barque tossed hither and thither by tempestuous waves: yet still will there be left to you a remnant of substance on which to live, and therefore I beseech you to settle down in some quiet nook where there is a church, and where none but plain, good-hearted folk abide.
Vocabulary in context: abide -- Example 7.
Marius possessed one of those temperaments which bury themselves in sorrow and there abide; Cosette was one of those persons who plunge into sorrow and emerge from it again.
Vocabulary in context: abide -- Example 8.
You are all kindness, madam; but I believe we must abide by our original plan.
Vocabulary in context: abide -- Example 9.
True, I am not a swashbuckler; but perhaps there may also abide in me the spirit which should pertain to every man who is at once resigned and sure of himself.
Vocabulary in context: abide -- Example 10.
I married a poor woman, and am content to abide by what I have done.
Vocabulary in context: abide -- Example 11.
He could no longer abide, in the new state of agitation into which he found himself plunged, by the arrangements which he had made in his preceding state of comparative calm; he would run to find her, and would insist upon seeing her on each of the following days.
Vocabulary in context: abide -- Example 12.
Not so with the gentle sex -- I say it in their praise; they cannot abide abruptness.
Vocabulary in context: abide -- Example 13.
I told her Percy couldn't abide winds, as he was threatened with a pulmonary affection.
Vocabulary in context: abide -- Example 14.
At last luck seemed to settle and abide with Joe.
