1 Perhaps it was the first time she was ready, perhaps the first time her being was tempered to take an impress of the abiding truth.
2 It proved to be the abiding place of David Gamut.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 26 3 Their local attachments are very abiding.
4 They are easily moved, and often affectionate, but they rarely have any abiding passion of any sort.
5 To dissipate in some trifling measure her abiding sense of the murkiness of human life she went to the "linhay" or lean-to shed, which formed the root-store of their dwelling and abutted on the fuelhouse.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure 6 Their belief in the Magic was an abiding thing.
7 But her abiding reliance was on Mr. Dick.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 45. MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT'S PREDICTIONS 8 We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs for ever, but in the august light of abiding memories.
9 Too mighty, lords of heaven, did you deem the brood of Rome, had this your gift been abiding.
10 But she could not trust herself to say it carelessly; could not abide his certain questioning.
11 Do thou abide below here, where they shall serve thee, as if thou wert the captain.
12 I never abide in any place, sleeping or waking, without an example of this gifted work.
13 Even so," said David, firmly; "I will abide in the place of the Delaware.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 26 14 But presently he could see that many of the men in gray did not intend to abide the blow.
15 The same alarming distinction was conferred on Rebecca, in spite of her father's entreaties, who offered even money, in this extremity of distress, that she might be permitted to abide with him.