abide
verb (used without object)
to remain; continue; stay.
had abode
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past perfectof abide.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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And oft I did take the air very full into my lungs, for the sweetness of it, after the horrid stenchings that I had abode all those hours.
From The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson
The good man had abode well; but what would this one with his pride and ambition?
From Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Lewis Wallace
That is the glorious platform—as we might, in our human way of speaking, say—upon which He had abode all through the ages of the past.
From Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes by Frederick Charles Jennings
It was for the space of two winters she had abode with Hakon the Old, and Olaf was now three winters old.
From The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) by Ethel Harriet Hearn
"If you bring these strange looks, and this stranger silence, into festivity, we shall wish you had abode in the marshes seeking for herons, or rather for woodcocks and howlets."
From Quentin Durward by Sir Walter Scott
