All 10 Uses of
abide
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Incomplete With it an abode of bliss.†
Chpt 5
- —You pray to a local and obscure idol: our temples, majestic and mysterious, are the abodes of Isis and Osiris, of Horus and Ammon Ra.†
Chpt 7
- With it an abode of bliss.†
Chpt 8
- Others abide our question.†
Chpt 9 *
- Interrogated as to whether life there resembled our experience in the flesh he stated that he had heard from more favoured beings now in the spirit that their abodes were equipped with every modern home comfort such as talafana, alavatar, hatakalda, wataklasat and that the highest adepts were steeped in waves of volupcy of the very purest nature.†
Chpt 12
- There are sins or (let us call them as the world calls them) evil memories which are hidden away by man in the darkest places of the heart but they abide there and wait.†
Chpt 14
- No fixed abode.†
Chpt 15 *
- THE CRIER: (Loudly) Whereas Leopold Bloom of no fixed abode is a wellknown dynamitard, forger, bigamist, bawd and cuckold and a public nuisance to the citizens of Dublin and whereas at this commission of assizes the most honourable….†
Chpt 15
- With it an abode of bliss.†
Chpt 17
- With circumspection, as invariably when entering an abode (his own or not his own): with solicitude, the snakespiral springs of the mattress being old, the brass quoits and pendent viper radii loose and tremulous under stress and strain: prudently, as entering a lair or ambush of lust or adders: lightly, the less to disturb: reverently, the bed of conception and of birth, of consummation of marriage and of breach of marriage, of sleep and of death.†
Chpt 17
Definitions:
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(abide as in: abide in the forest) to live in a place
or more rarely: to live with someone or something
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(abide as in: abide by her decision) to tolerate or put up with something