The moving Moon went up the sky, And no where did
abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.
Sir Launcelot will give battle to dragons, and will
abide by them, and will assail them again, and yet again, and still again, until he do conquer and destroy them; and so likewise will Sir Pellinore and Sir Aglovale and Sir Carados, and mayhap others, but there be none else that will venture it, let the idle say what the idle will.
Abide by thy customs, thou excellent one: grind thy corn, drink thy water, praise thy cooking,-- if only it make thee glad!
These familiar initials are, I suppose, the best beloved in recent literature, certainly they are the sweetest to me, but there was a time when my mother could not
abide them.
"Maybe you'll
abide here long enough to reconsider that statement," Biedenbach said quietly.
"I do think, Gilbert, that you ought to
abide by the judgment of a man nearly eighty, who has seen a great deal and saved scores of lives himself--surely his opinion ought to weigh more than a mere boy's."