All 11 Uses of

abide

in

Jane Eyre

…overshadowed walls — occasionally also turning a fascinated eye towards the dimly gleaning mirror — I began to recall what I had heard of dead men, troubled in their graves by the violation of their last wishes, revisiting the earth to punish the perjured and avenge the oppressed; and I thought Mr. Reed's spirit, harassed by the wrongs of his sister's child, might quit its abode — whether in the church vault or in the unknown world of the departed — and rise before me in this chamber.†
Chpt 2

Mr. Brocklehurst and his family never came near Lowood now: household matters were not scrutinised into; the cross housekeeper was gone, driven away by the fear of infection; her successor, who had been matron at the Lowton Dispensary, unused to the ways of her new abode, provided with comparative liberality.†
Chpt 9

Coming near, I found the door slightly ajar; probably to admit some fresh air into the close abode of sickness.†
Chpt 9

I shall take up my abode in a religious house near Lisle — a nunnery you would call it; there I shall be quiet and unmolested.†
Chpt 22

She comes from the other world — from the abode of people who are dead; and tells me so when she meets me alone here in the gloaming!†
Chpt 22

Favour me with an account of her — with her name, her parentage, her place of abode.†
Chpt 26 *

I should have longed rather to deviate to a wood I saw not far off, which appeared in its thick shade to offer inviting shelter; but I was so sick, so weak, so gnawed with nature's cravings, instinct kept me roaming round abodes where there was a chance of food.†
Chpt 28

He just looked in at the doors I opened; and when he had wandered upstairs and downstairs, he said I must have gone through a great deal of fatigue and trouble to have effected such considerable changes in so short a time: but not a syllable did he utter indicating pleasure in the improved aspect of his abode.†
Chpt 34

I took care she should never want for anything that could contribute to her comfort: she soon settled in her new abode, became very happy there, and made fair progress in her studies.†
Chpt 38

Definitions:

(abide as in: abide in the forest)
to live in a place

or more rarely: to live with someone or something