All 4 Uses of
abide
in
Bleak House
- My own abode is lodgings at Penton Place, Pentonville.†
Chpt 7-9 *
- Mr. Boythorn leaving us within a week, we took up our abode at a cheerful lodging near Oxford Street over an upholsterer's shop.†
Chpt 13-15
- "As this is your regular abode, Miss Summerson, you see," he observed, "I should like to know whether you've been asked for by any stranger answering the description, or whether Mr. Jarndyce has.†
Chpt 55-57
- My companion smoking on the box—I had thought at the last inn of begging him to do so when I saw him standing at a great fire in a comfortable cloud of tobacco—was as vigilant as ever and as quickly down and up again when we came to any human abode or any human creature.†
Chpt 55-57
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