All 5 Uses of
abide
in
Sense and Sensibility
- In a very few weeks from the day which brought Sir John Middleton's first letter to Norland, every thing was so far settled in their future abode as to enable Mrs. Dashwood and her daughters to begin their journey.†
Chpt 5
- Elinor found, when the evening was over, that disposition is not materially altered by a change of abode, for although scarcely settled in town, Sir John had contrived to collect around him, nearly twenty young people, and to amuse them with a ball.†
Chpt 27
- Elinor would not oppose his opinion, because, whatever might be her general estimation of the advantage of a public school, she could not think of Edward's abode in Mr. Pratt's family, with any satisfaction.†
Chpt 36
- On HER measures depended those of her two friends; Mrs. Jennings could not quit Cleveland during the Dashwoods' stay; and Colonel Brandon was soon brought, by their united request, to consider his own abode there as equally determinate, if not equally indispensable.†
Chpt 46
- She had heard nothing of him since her leaving London, nothing new of his plans, nothing certain even of his present abode.†
Chpt 47 *
Definition:
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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