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Definition of Abides
1. abide [v] - See also: abide
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abides
Literary usage of Abides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mathematical Philosophy: A Study of Fate and Freedom; Lectures for Educated by Cassius Jackson Keyser (1922)
"... in the world of sense, nothing abides. ' The life of man," said the Spirit of
the Ocean, " passes by like a galloping horse, changing at every turn, ..."
2. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential ...by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1803)
"POLYTRICHUM abides. Dwarf Long-headed Hair-moss. ... Polytrichum abides. Hedw.
Sp. Muse. 96. Crypt. v. 1. 37. t. 14. Mem. Tr. of Linn. Soe. i: 4. 7O. ..."
3. Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament by Robert William Rogers (1912)
"abides no more. he of wailings abides no more, the lord of destiny (?) abides no
more. I am queen, my consort abides no more. 5 My Damu abides no more. ..."
4. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"... abides one song yet of her lyric days, Thine only, this thy song. For that
sole singer in all time's ageless О soul triune, woman and god and date ..."
5. Muscologia Britannica: Containing the Mosses of Great Britain and Ireland by William Jackson Hooker, Thomas Taylor (1827)
"Moist banks, frequently with P. abides, common. ... we have seen capsules in so
exactly an intermediate state between it and P. abides, that we have been at ..."
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