All 4 Uses of
abide
in
Main Street
- But she could not trust herself to say it carelessly; could not abide his certain questioning.†
Chpt 9 *
- The first tradition, repeated in scores of magazines every month, is that the American village remains the one sure abode of friendship, honesty, and clean sweet marriageable girls.†
Chpt 22 *
- Therefore all men who succeed in painting in Paris or in finance in New York at last become weary of smart women, return to their native towns, assert that cities are vicious, marry their childhood sweethearts and, presumably, joyously abide in those towns until death.†
Chpt 22
- But when she went to church suppers and felt the friendliness, saw the gaiety with which the sisters served cold ham and scalloped potatoes; when Mrs. Champ Perry cried to her, on an afternoon call, "My dear, if you just knew how happy it makes you to come into abiding grace," then Carol found the humanness behind the sanguinary and alien theology.†
Chpt 28
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