Example Sentences

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And if the Magician would have made a pet of her no doubt she would have abode with him.

From The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales by Garnett, Richard

Men of the High North, you who have known it; You in whose hearts its splendors have abode; Can you renounce it, can you disown it?

From Ballads of a Cheechako by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)

The salt land proved as insecure a prison, for this embarrassing being as the pit where he was to have abode for ever.

From Bunyan by Froude, James Anthony

In short, she was perfection’s perfect choice, And Beauty’s fairest child of all the group Of Eve’s unnumbered daughters, who abide, Or have abode, amid these mingled scenes.

From A Leaf from the Old Forest by Cossar, John D.