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  • A staid housekeeper brought on bread to serve them,   (source)
    staid = respectable and low-keyed (unobtrusive)
  • But tell me, wench, how will the world repute me For undertaking so unstaid a journey?†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unstaid means not and reverses the meaning of staid. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • If ever thou shalt love, In the sweet pangs of it remember me: For, such as I am, all true lovers are; Unstaid and skittish in all motions else, Save in the constant image of the creature That is belov'd.†   (source)
  • Sancho had not thought it worth while to hobble Rocinante, feeling sure, from what he knew of his staidness and freedom from incontinence, that all the mares in the Cordova pastures would not lead him into an impropriety.†   (source)
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  • Even staid, prissy Thoreau, who famously declared that it was enough to have "traveled a good deal in Concord," felt compelled to visit the more fearsome wilds of nineteenth-century Maine and climb Mt. Katahdin.†   (source)
  • Wei was about forty years old and had the look of a staid, honest intellectual.†   (source)
  • One of them was Armstrong House, a monumental Italian Renaissance palazzo directly across Bull Street from the staid Oglethorpe Club.†   (source)
  • ROY' enters on a staircase, his side parting now super-aggressive, his robes just a little bit too short, his clothes now spectacularly staid.†   (source)
  • Chastised, Eragon adopted a staid demeanor, but inside he still bubbled with energy.†   (source)
  • They were so staid looking.†   (source)
  • They came out into the Old Town, with its massive staid town houses from the turn of the century.†   (source)
  • But more than that, I just couldn't reconcile a staid, respectable, dull concept like husband with my concept of Edward.†   (source)
  • They could not quite understand why this staid young Catholic, a successful engineer who had taken his degree at Harvard, a husband and the father of three children, should choose to befriend an uneducated, homicidal half-breed whom he knew but slightly and had not seen for nine years.†   (source)
  • Esther Winship's apartment was lavishly understated, beiges, off-whites, great staid sofas that did not give when you sat, and expanses of dunnish rug, deep-piled, and almost no pictures, and the few pictures Esther elected to hang were self-effacing to the point of who cares, and the place had so much attitude, all tension and edge, that Jack seemed largely lost here.†   (source)
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  • She's a breath of fresh air in this staid old place, I can tell you that.†   (source)
  • Oblivious to its danger, the deer presented its profile and chewed its supper with a staid, quiet expression while Max notched an arrow and drew the bowstring to his ear.†   (source)
  • These staid men have become emotional because of their extreme exhaustion and have cultivated opinions and petty jealousies that will define their relationships for years to come.†   (source)
  • The Free Masons convened at the staid old Indian King on Market Street.†   (source)
  • The currents, tumblings, and precipitous falls within gave the staid black and gray masses a sense of movement.†   (source)
  • She has staid in N.E. [New England ] a long time.†   (source)
  • The more staid people played cards all night long in the "Pompeiian" sitting room, curtained off from the ballroom by a heavy portiere on bronze rings.†   (source)
  • Suddenly the stage is invaded from all sides by HARRY, RON (who now has a side parting in his hair and whose wardrobe choices have become rather more staid), GMT; and DRACO.†   (source)
  • His delivery was staid compared with hers, and while the crowd listened politely and applauded afterward, it was obvious to Eragon that however much the people respected Orrin, they did not love him as they loved Nasuada, nor could he fire their imagination as Nasuada fired it.†   (source)
  • "Yes, thank you," I say, following her beyond the baize door to our headmistress's solid, staid sanctuary.†   (source)
  • They were a curious mixture of middle-aged workingmen, straight from their emergency training, and boys just out of naval college who looked as if they had got in by mistake among the staid fathers of families and who joked and played the fool with the older sailors to keep themselves from thinking.†   (source)
  • There is nothing staid, nothing settled, in this universe.†   (source)
  • She saw staid family vehicles drawn by dependable-looking teams.†   (source)
  • She was a thin, gaunt woman with neat grey hair parted in the middle, very staid and calm in manner.†   (source)
  • In passing through the lobbies of swank places, the Palmer Houses and portiered dining rooms, tassels, tapers, string ensembles, making the staid bouncety tram-tram of Vienna waltzes, Simon had absorbed this.†   (source)
  • Old staid members of the congregation had sometimes raised objections: it was blasphemous, they said, to make this guy out of Our Lord's betrayer; but he had said nothing and let the practice continue — it seemed to him a good thing that the world's traitor should be made a figure of fun.†   (source)
  • It did not occur to her that if she married Ashley she would automatically be relegated to arbors and front parlors with staid matrons in dull silks, as staid and dull as they and not a part of the fun and frolicking.†   (source)
  • Instead, it seemed as though, after trying the company of the staid and patriotic citizens and winning their respect and grudging liking, something perverse in him made him go out of his way to affront them and show them that his conduct had been only a masquerade and one which no longer amused him.†   (source)
  • Easy, easy, etc., come from the elderly staid spectators, who pat her comfortingly.†   (source)
  • Her thoughts were staid and solemnly adapted to a condition.†   (source)
  • I staid at the camp meeting one day longer than I intended when I left.†   (source)
  • 'Tis the only sort of party a staid man can feel safe at after the mug have been round a few times.†   (source)
  • Perhaps by the time you return to Paris, I shall be quite a sober, staid father of a family!†   (source)
  • After an interval of silence, "I think they might as well have staid for me," said he.†   (source)
  • She staid with me till dark, and I went home with her.†   (source)
  • 'Twould have been better had you staid in the Ark, or the castle, but what has been done, is done.†   (source)
  • Miss Taylor, if you had not married, you would have staid at home with me.†   (source)
  • But if she staid here, with her white face, I suppose I should either kill her or spoil her.†   (source)
  • I should not have had to follow her if she had staid.†   (source)
  • She staid a week, and I had many talks with her.†   (source)
  • I afterwards staid with that friend in New York, and found her in comfortable circumstances.†   (source)
  • It showed Hans Lorenz Castorp in his official dress as a town councillor—the sober, even godly attire of citizens from a vanished century, a costume that later citizens, whether staid or dashing, had carried with them through the years, continuing to wear it on pompous occasions in order ceremoniously to make the past present, and the present past, and to proclaim the permanent continuity of all things and the venerable trustworthiness of their official signatures.†   (source)
  • Instead of rambling, this party had preserved a dignified homogeneity, and assumed to itself the function of representing the staid nobility of the country-side — East Egg condescending to West Egg, and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gayety.†   (source)
  • As primly as the oldest, most staid scientist in the Institute, Martin protested, "Oh, she belongs to very nice family.†   (source)
  • If he had been able to buy all of the newspapers of the United States the next morning, he might have discovered that his beer-hunting exploit was being perused by some two score millions of people, and had served as a text for editorials in half the staid and solemn businessmen's newspapers in the land.†   (source)
  • Quite a staid, worn woman now.†   (source)
  • I act as an escape from the weariness of agnosticism, and I think I'm the only man who knows how his staid old mind is really at sea and longs for a sturdy spar like the Church to cling to.†   (source)
  • He wandered through the village, recognising with staid satisfaction the various gods he had known before the long journey.†   (source)
  • Then I'll marry a staid body.†   (source)
  • He wondered what had become of the boys who were his companions: they were nearly thirty now; some would be dead, but others were married and had children; they were soldiers and parsons, doctors, lawyers; they were staid men who were beginning to put youth behind them.†   (source)
  • Then they lingered and with slow, staid reluctance bought one thing and then another—flour, sugar, canned goods, coffee, tobacco, ammunition.†   (source)
  • Her appearance always acted as a damper to the curiosity raised by her oral oddities: hard-featured and staid, she had no point to which interest could attach.†   (source)
  • "Or perhaps they amuse your honor?" remarked Alpatych with a staid air, as he pointed at the old men with his free hand.†   (source)
  • Lydia was occasionally a visitor there, when her husband was gone to enjoy himself in London or Bath; and with the Bingleys they both of them frequently staid so long, that even Bingley's good humor was overcome, and he proceeded so far as to talk of giving them a hint to be gone.†   (source)
  • She was anxious, she knew—more anxious perhaps than she ought to be—for what was it after all whether she went or staid?†   (source)
  • A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds.†   (source)
  • Staid, formal Miss Lydia had requested to resign that queenly office to the royal old lady, and Arthur was pleased with this opportunity of gratifying his godmother's taste for stateliness.†   (source)
  • If that staid old house near the Green at Richmond should ever come to be haunted when I am dead, it will be haunted, surely, by my ghost.†   (source)
  • A dinner at Mr Musgrove's had been the occasion when all these things should have been seen by Anne; but she had staid at home, under the mixed plea of a headache of her own, and some return of indisposition in little Charles.†   (source)
  • But when they set out for the prison where the trooper is confined, the old lady has managed to draw about her, with her lavendercoloured dress, much of the staid calmness which is its usual accompaniment.†   (source)
  • "I think, friend Cedric," said Wamba, interfering, "that had Richard of the Lion's Heart been wise enough to have taken a fool's advice, he might have staid at home with his merry Englishmen, and left the recovery of Jerusalem to those same Knights who had most to do with the loss of it."†   (source)
  • I know its staid repose within.†   (source)
  • It was a cool spot, staid but cheerful, a wonderful place for echoes, and a very harbour from the raging streets.†   (source)
  • She had a little basket-trifle hanging at her side, with keys in it; and she looked as staid and as discreet a housekeeper as the old house could have.†   (source)
  • The huge green fragment of ice on which she alighted pitched and creaked as her weight came on it, but she staid there not a moment.†   (source)
  • Nikolai Petrovitch was surprised; Fenitchka, the reserved and staid Fenitchka, had never given him a caress in the presence of a third person.†   (source)
  • I staid a month after this, and finding I was resolved to stand up for my rights, they concluded to treat me well.†   (source)
  • Payne was a staid English maid and personal attendant upon Mrs. Osborne, to whom the courier, as in duty bound, paid court, and whom Georgy used to "lark" dreadfully with accounts of German robbers and ghosts.†   (source)
  • The Americans, who almost always preserve a staid demeanor and a frigid air, nevertheless frequently allow themselves to be borne away, far beyond the bound of reason, by a sudden passion or a hasty opinion, and they sometimes gravely commit strange absurdities.†   (source)
  • "Consider yourself, Grigory Vassilyevitch," Smerdyakov went on, staid and unruffled, conscious of his triumph, but, as it were, generous to the vanquished foe.†   (source)
  • Such men are staid and discreet, and when a European or a high-caste native is near will net their charge with most elaborate precautions; but in the ordinary haphazard chances of pilgrimage the precautions are not taken.†   (source)
  • He said, 'Where are you going, my little man?' and I said, 'To Miss Everdene's please,' and he said, 'She is a staid woman, isn't she, my little man?' and I said, 'Yes.'†   (source)
  • It seems but yesterday that we were playfellows, Kate, and it will seem but tomorrow when we are staid old people, looking back to these cares as we look back, now, to those of our childish days: and recollecting with a melancholy pleasure that the time was, when they could move us.†   (source)
  • He quits us tonight, and no regret of mine will follow him, unless it be that he has staid so long, and to so little purpose.†   (source)
  • But I thought he would have staid now, and it would have been a pity not to have mentioned....Well, (returning to the room,) I have not been able to succeed.†   (source)
  • Otherwise the staid old house was, as to its cleanliness and order, still just as it had been when I first saw it.†   (source)
  • He was exactly what he had been, when I knew him in Hertfordshire; but I would not tell you how little I was satisfied with her behavior while she staid with us, if I had not perceived, by Jane's letter last Wednesday, that her conduct on coming home was exactly of a piece with it, and therefore what I now tell you can give you no fresh pain.†   (source)
  • There she sat, staid and taciturn-looking, as usual, in her brown stuff gown, her check apron, white handkerchief, and cap.†   (source)
  • For, what would staid British responsibility and respectability have said to orange-trees in boxes in a Bank courtyard, and even to a Cupid over the counter?†   (source)
  • Such an unwonted bustle was he in that the staid Starbuck, his official superior, quietly resigned to him for the time the sole management of affairs.†   (source)
  • In the Rostovs' staid old-fashioned house the dissolution of former conditions of life was but little noticeable.†   (source)
  • He staid an hour with them.†   (source)
  • Ever since her last momentous conversation with her son, Mrs Nickleby had begun to display unusual care in the adornment of her person, gradually superadding to those staid and matronly habiliments, which had, up to that time, formed her ordinary attire, a variety of embellishments and decorations, slight perhaps in themselves, but, taken together, and considered with reference to the subject of her disclosure, of no mean importance.†   (source)
  • In the family "keeping-room," as it is termed, he will remember the staid, respectable old book-case, with its glass doors, where Rollin's History,* Milton's Paradise Lost, Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, and Scott's Family Bible,** stand side by side in decorous order, with multitudes of other books, equally solemn and respectable.†   (source)
  • We came to Richmond all too soon, and our destination there was a house by the green,—a staid old house, where hoops and powder and patches, embroidered coats, rolled stockings, ruffles and swords, had had their court days many a time.†   (source)
  • The sad accident at Lyme was soon the prevailing topic, and on comparing their latest accounts of the invalid, it appeared that each lady dated her intelligence from the same hour of yestermorn; that Captain Wentworth had been in Kellynch yesterday (the first time since the accident), had brought Anne the last note, which she had not been able to trace the exact steps of; had staid a few hours and then returned again to Lyme, and without any present intention of quitting it any more.†   (source)
  • But owing to the superstition that the fewer the people who know of it the less a woman in travail suffers, everyone tried to pretend not to know; no one spoke of it, but apart from the ordinary staid and respectful good manners habitual in the prince's household, a common anxiety, a softening of the heart, and a consciousness that something great and mysterious was being accomplished at that moment made itself felt.†   (source)
  • Besides, in harming Deerslayer, you injure your own friend; when father and Hurry Harry came after your scalps, he refused to be of the party, and staid in the canoe by himself.†   (source)
  • If he had come at Christmas he could not have staid three days; I was always glad he did not come at Christmas; now we are going to have just the right weather for him, fine, dry, settled weather.†   (source)
  • I made allowance for Steerforth's light way of treating the subject, and, considering it with reference to the staid air of gravity and antiquity which I associated with that 'lazy old nook near St. Paul's Churchyard', did not feel indisposed towards my aunt's suggestion; which she left to my free decision, making no scruple of telling me that it had occurred to her, on her lately visiting her own proctor in Doctors' Commons for the purpose of settling her will in my favour.†   (source)
  • While he staid, the Martins were forgotten; and on the very morning of his setting off for Bath again, Emma, to dissipate some of the distress it occasioned, judged it best for her to return Elizabeth Martin's visit.†   (source)
  • "Her year!" cried Mrs. Price; "I am sure I hope I shall be rid of her before she has staid a year, for that will not be up till November.†   (source)
  • Could Anne have foreseen such a junction, she would have staid at home; but, from some feelings of interest and curiosity, she fancied now that it was too late to retract, and the whole six set forward together in the direction chosen by the Miss Musgroves, who evidently considered the walk as under their guidance.†   (source)
  • We were at the height of our enjoyment, and were all busily engaged, in our several departments, endeavouring to bring the last batch of slices to a state of perfection that should crown the feast, when I was aware of a strange presence in the room, and my eyes encountered those of the staid Littimer, standing hat in hand before me.†   (source)
  • You had better have staid with us.†   (source)
  • —The two Abbots and I ran into the front room and peeped through the blind when we heard he was going by, and Miss Nash came and scolded us away, and staid to look through herself; however, she called me back presently, and let me look too, which was very good-natured.†   (source)
  • Had I received any letter from Mansfield, to tell me how you were all going on, I believe I should certainly have staid; but I knew nothing that had happened here for a fortnight, and felt that I had been away long enough.†   (source)
  • I had already staid longer than was intended, and I knew my presence must be a source of perpetual anxiety to my kind benefactress.†   (source)
  • — In short, my dear madam, it was a quarrel blameless on her side, abominable on mine; and I returned the same evening to Richmond, though I might have staid with you till the next morning, merely because I would be as angry with her as possible.†   (source)
  • He staid in New York a week.†   (source)
  • Curiosity and vanity were both engaged, and the temptation of immediate pleasure was too strong for a mind unused to make any sacrifice to right: he resolved to defer his Norfolk journey, resolved that writing should answer the purpose of it, or that its purpose was unimportant, and staid.†   (source)
  • The heat was excessive; he had never suffered any thing like it—almost wished he had staid at home—nothing killed him like heat—he could bear any degree of cold, etc., but heat was intolerable—and he sat down, at the greatest possible distance from the slight remains of Mr. Woodhouse's fire, looking very deplorable.†   (source)
  • He staid at the north.†   (source)
  • Dr. Grant, through an interest on which he had almost ceased to form hopes, succeeded to a stall in Westminster, which, as affording an occasion for leaving Mansfield, an excuse for residence in London, and an increase of income to answer the expenses of the change, was highly acceptable to those who went and those who staid.†   (source)
  • He told her that he had been impatient to leave the dining-room—hated sitting long—was always the first to move when he could—that his father, Mr. Knightley, Mr. Cox, and Mr. Cole, were left very busy over parish business—that as long as he had staid, however, it had been pleasant enough, as he had found them in general a set of gentlemanlike, sensible men; and spoke so handsomely of Highbury altogether—thought it so abundant in agreeable families—that Emma began to feel she had been used to despise the place rather too much.†   (source)
  • "Yes, sir," was Fanny's humble answer, given with the feelings almost of a criminal towards Mrs. Norris; and not bearing to remain with her in what might seem a state of triumph, she followed her uncle out of the room, having staid behind him only long enough to hear these words spoken in angry agitation— "Quite unnecessary!†   (source)
  • Fanny was just beginning to collect herself, and to feel that if she staid longer behind it might seem disrespectful, when this point was settled, and being commissioned with the brother and sister's apology, saw them preparing to go as she quitted the room herself to perform the dreadful duty of appearing before her uncle.†   (source)
  • Mr. Yates had staid to see the destruction of every theatrical preparation at Mansfield, the removal of everything appertaining to the play: he left the house in all the soberness of its general character; and Sir Thomas hoped, in seeing him out of it, to be rid of the worst object connected with the scheme, and the last that must be inevitably reminding him of its existence.†   (source)
  • He staid of course, and Edmund had then ample opportunity for observing how he sped with Fanny, and what degree of immediate encouragement for him might be extracted from her manners; and it was so little, so very, very little—every chance, every possibility of it, resting upon her embarrassment only; if there was not hope in her confusion, there was hope in nothing else—that he was almost ready to wonder at his friend's perseverance.†   (source)
  • It rained very hard all the day; I was thoroughly soak'd, and by noon a good deal tired; so I stopt at a poor inn, where I staid all night, beginning now to wish that I had never left home.†   (source)
  • He entered the room with a look of self-consequence, slightly bowed to the ladies, without speaking a word, and, after briefly surveying them and their apartments, took up a newspaper from the table, and continued to read it as long as he staid.†   (source)
  • My always keeping good hours, and giving little trouble in the family, made her unwilling to part with me; so that, when I talk'd of a lodging I had heard of, nearer my business, for two shillings a week, which, intent as I now was on saving money, made some difference, she bid me not think of it, for she would abate me two shillings a week for the future; so I remained with her at one shilling and sixpence as long as I staid in London.†   (source)
  • They were engaged about the end of that time to attend Lady Middleton to a party, from which Mrs. Jennings was kept away by the indisposition of her youngest daughter; and for this party, Marianne, wholly dispirited, careless of her appearance, and seeming equally indifferent whether she went or staid, prepared, without one look of hope or one expression of pleasure.†   (source)
  • Our precarious balance, heretofore contained in a staid wobble, suddenly became much more erratic.†   (source)
  • The carvers set before him his plate of meat,
    a staid housekeeper brought the man his bread.†   (source)
  • A staid housekeeper brought on bread to serve me,
    appetizers aplenty too, lavish with her bounty.†   (source)
  • A staid housekeeper brought on bread to serve them,
    appetizers aplenty too, lavish with her bounty.†   (source)
  • A staid housekeeper brought on bread to serve him,
    appetizers aplenty too, lavish with her bounty.†   (source)
  • A staid housekeeper brought on bread to serve them,
    appetizers aplenty too, lavish with her bounty.†   (source)
  • A staid housekeeper brought on bread to serve them,
    appetizers aplenty too, lavish with her bounty.†   (source)
  • No longer is Leopold, as he sits there, ruminating, chewing the cud of reminiscence, that staid agent of publicity and holder of a modest substance in the funds.†   (source)
  • The earth by the sky staid with, the daily close of their junction,
    The heav'd challenge from the east that moment over my head,
    The mocking taunt, See then whether you shall be master!†   (source)
  • The runaway slave came to my house and stopt outside,
    I heard his motions crackling the twigs of the woodpile,
    Through the swung half-door of the kitchen I saw him limpsy and weak,
    And went where he sat on a log and led him in and assured him,
    And brought water and fill'd a tub for his sweated body and bruis'd feet,
    And gave him a room that enter'd from my own, and gave him some
    coarse clean clothes,
    And remember perfectly well his revolving eyes and his awkwardness,
    And remember putting plasters on the galls of his neck and ankles;
    He staid with me a week before he was recuperated and pass'd north,
    I had him sit next me at table, my fire-lock lean'd in the corner.†   (source)
  • The red squaw staid all the forenoon, and toward the middle of the
    afternoon she went away,
    O my mother was loth to have her go away,
    All the week she thought of her, she watch'd for her many a month,
    She remember'd her many a winter and many a summer,
    But the red squaw never came nor was heard of there again.†   (source)
  • We sailed with a fair wind to the Cape of Good Hope, where we staid only to take in fresh water.†   (source)
  • We staid there three weeks to refresh our crew, many of whom were sick.†   (source)
  • The company had now staid so long, that Mrs Fitzpatrick plainly perceived they all designed to stay out each other.†   (source)
  • I staid three months in this country, out of perfect obedience to his majesty; who was pleased highly to favour me, and made me very honourable offers.†   (source)
  • Nor staid; but, on the wings of Cherubim
    Uplifted, in paternal glory rode
    Far into Chaos, and the world unborn;
    For Chaos heard his voice: Him all his train
    Followed in bright procession, to behold
    Creation, and the wonders of his might.†   (source)
  • I staid within this day, there being a continual rain; and it was somewhat more chilly and cold than usual.†   (source)
  • I could not hear what he set forth to them, but he had not staid there long with them, when each ran vying back within.†   (source)
  • Would thou hadst hearkened to my words, and staid
    With me, as I besought thee, when that strange
    Desire of wandering, this unhappy morn,
    I know not whence possessed thee; we had then
    Remained still happy; not, as now, despoiled
    Of all our good; shamed, naked, miserable!†   (source)
  • I took a draught of water and sugar, but it came up again; then I drank water without sugar, and that staid with me.†   (source)
  • —"Indeed, Lady Bellaston," said he, "I don't wonder you are astonished at the length of my visit; for I have staid above two hours, and I did not think I had staid above half-a-one."†   (source)
  • —"I do assure you, madam," said Jones, "the lady who was here last night, and who staid the latest (for the other only brought me a letter), is a woman of very great fashion, and my near relation."†   (source)
  • determine, and not need repeat,
    As not of power at once; nor odds appeared
    In might or swift prevention: But the sword
    Of Michael from the armoury of God
    Was given him tempered so, that neither keen
    Nor solid might resist that edge: it met
    The sword of Satan, with steep force to smite
    Descending, and in half cut sheer; nor staid,
    But with swift wheel reverse, deep entering, shared
    All his right side: Then Satan first knew pain,
    And writhed him to and fro convolved; so sore
    The griding sword with discontinuous wound
    Passed through him: But the ethereal substance closed,
    Not long divisible; and from the gash
    A stream of necturous humour issuing flowed†   (source)
  • Here I staid twenty days, left them supplies of all necessary things, as also a carpenter and smith, and shared the islands into parts, reserving the whole property to myself.†   (source)
  • Then staid the fervid wheels, and in his hand
    He took the golden compasses, prepared
    In God's eternal store, to circumscribe
    This universe, and all created things:
    One foot he centered, and the other turned
    Round through the vast profundity obscure;
    And said, Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds,
    This be thy just circumference, O World!†   (source)
  • This was my bed all the time I staid with those people, though made more convenient by degrees, as I began to learn their language and make my wants known.†   (source)
  • The day now began to send forth its first streams of light, when Jones made an apology to the stranger for having staid so long, and perhaps detained him from his rest.†   (source)
  • I. That, while they staid in the island, they should not pretend to any authority; but should entirely conform to my orders, and return me the arms which I should put in their hands.†   (source)
  • Two days I staid here, the wind blowing very briskly E.S.E. which being contrary to the current, leaves a great breach of the sea upon the point; so it was neither fit for me to keep too near the shore, on account of the breach; nor stand at too great a distance, for fear of the streams.†   (source)
  • the seventh
    Evening arose in Eden, for the sun
    Was set, and twilight from the east came on,
    Forerunning night; when at the holy mount
    Of Heaven's high-seated top, the imperial throne
    Of Godhead, fixed for ever firm and sure,
    The Filial Power arrived, and sat him down
    With his great Father; for he also went
    Invisible, yet staid, (such privilege
    Hath Omnipresence) and the work ordained,
    Author and End of all things; and, from work
    Now resting, blessed and hallowed the seventh day,
    As resting on that day from all his work,
    But not in silence holy kept: the harp
    Had work and rested not; the solemn pipe,
    And dulcimer, all organs of sweet stop,
    All sounds o†   (source)
  • For the queen, whom I always attended, never went farther when she accompanied the king in his progresses, and there staid till his majesty returned from viewing his frontiers.†   (source)
  • She had staid once before a week at my house, and then I gave her a pressing invitation to return; for she was a very agreeable woman, and had improved good natural parts by a proper education.†   (source)
  • After we had staid four months in Hamburgh, I went from thence overland to the Hague, where embarking in the packet, I arrived in London the 10th of January 1705, after ten years and nine months absence from England.†   (source)
  • The apothecary staid no longer in the room than while he acquainted us with his news; and then, without saying a syllable to his patient on any other subject, departed to spread his advices all over the town.†   (source)
  • Thus said, he turned; and Satan, bowing low,
    As to superiour Spirits is wont in Heaven,
    Where honour due and reverence none neglects,
    Took leave, and toward the coast of earth beneath,
    Down from the ecliptick, sped with hoped success,
    Throws his steep flight in many an aery wheel;
    Nor staid, till on Niphates' top he lights.†   (source)
  • The first place I came to was Salisbury, where I got into the service of a gentleman belonging to the law, and one of the best gentlemen that ever I knew, for he was not only good to me, but I know a thousand good and charitable acts which he did while I staid with him; and I have known him often refuse business because it was paultry and oppressive.†   (source)
  • with ease
    Through the pure marble air his oblique way
    Amongst innumerable stars, that shone
    Stars distant, but nigh hand seemed other worlds;
    Or other worlds they seemed, or happy isles,
    Like those Hesperian gardens famed of old,
    Fortunate fields, and groves, and flowery vales,
    Thrice happy isles; but who dwelt happy there
    He staid not to inquire: Above them all
    The golden sun, in splendour likest Heaven,
    Allured his eye; thither his course he bends
    Through the calm firmament, (but up or down,
    By center, or eccentrick, hard to tell,
    Or longitude,) where the great luminary
    Aloof the vulgar constellations thick,
    That from his lordly eye keep distance due,†   (source)
  • All this being done, we unloosed and ungagged the prisoners, and set the idol on fire, which the gunpowder blowing up, the shape of it was deformed, rent and split, which the forage utterly consumed; for we staid to see its destruction, lest the ignorant idolatrous people should have thrown themselves into the flames, And thus we came away undiscovered, in the morning appearing as busy among our fellow travellers, as no body could have suspected any other, but that we had been in our beds all night.†   (source)
  • —"Then, sir," said he, "it was about half a year ago that I landed at Bristol, where I staid some time, and not finding it do there, and hearing of a place between that and Gloucester where the barber was just dead, I went thither, and there I had been about two months when Mr Jones came thither."†   (source)
  • Luckily for me, I lay out of the college the next evening; for that day I attended a young lady in a chaise to Witney, where we staid all night, and in our return, the next morning, to Oxford, I met one of my cronies, who acquainted me with sufficient news concerning myself to make me turn my horse another way.†   (source)
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