9 uses
- I couldn't abide to be present at their meeting.Chapter 28 (80% in)
- But Mr. Heathcliff forms a singular contrast to his abode and style of living.Chapter 1 (48% in)
- His abode at the Heights was an oppression past explaining.Chapter 10 (99% in)
- 'You've a nice house, Joseph,' I could not refrain from observing, 'and pleasant inmates; and I think the concentrated essence of all the madness in the world took up its abode in my brain the day I linked my fate with theirs!Chapter 13 (80% in)
- And I, in my secret heart (and conscience never reproached me), thought what a blessing it would be for HIM should Heathcliff put him out of misery; and what a blessing for ME should he send Heathcliff to his right abode!Chapter 17 (39% in)
- And far rather would I be condemned to a perpetual dwelling in the infernal regions than, even for one night, abide beneath the roof of Wuthering Heights again.'Chapter 17 (70% in)
- I believe her new abode was in the south, near London; there she had a son born a few months subsequent to her escape.Chapter 17 (72% in)
- He surveyed the carved front and low-browed lattices, the straggling gooseberry-bushes and crooked firs, with solemn intentness, and then shook his head: his private feelings entirely disapproved of the exterior of his new abode.Chapter 20 (46% in)
- This September I was invited to devastate the moors of a friend in the north, and on my journey to his abode, I unexpectedly came within fifteen miles of Gimmerton.Chapter 32 (1% in)
There are no more uses of "abide" in Wuthering Heights.
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