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Staid citizens with their families occupied the benches, groups were chatting under the spreading linden-tree at the north entrance, and young maidens in white muslin promenaded, looking seaward, as was the wont of Puritan maidens, watching a receding or coming Mayflower. [4]
Staid half a day and left. [5]
Staid till midnight, but not permitted to land by these infamous foreigners. [5]

More example sentences with the word staid in them

It must have worn a different aspect to Ruth, for she entered into its pleasures at first with curiosity, and then with interest and finally with a kind of staid abandon that no one would have deemed possible for her. [5]
We staid three weeks in Venice, a week in Florence, a fortnight in Rome, and arrived here a couple of weeks ago. [5]
Instead of the usual formal audience of 15 minutes, we staid 4 hours and were made a good deal more at home than we could have been in a New York drawing-room. [5]
I didn't stop to think about anything, I just tilted over backwards and landed on the floor, and staid there. [5]
There are the three layers again and the solid earth between--and, besides, there were only eight in Noah's family, and they could not have eaten all these oysters in the two or three months they staid on top of that mountain. [5]
We staid at this great convent all night, guests of the hospitable priests. [5]
So the first thing she said to him was, "I have staid constantly near your father, and have brought him water early and late, as much as he needed. [10]
I staid down there an hour, and surprised the workmen when they hauled up and found a man on the rope instead of a bucket of rock. [5]
I staid at the volcano about a week and witnessed the greatest eruption that has occurred for years. [5]
We staid at the Lake four days --I had plenty of fun, for John constantly reminded me of Sam Bowen when we were on our campaign in Missouri. [5]
If necessary let the execution be staid till I can be heard from again. [7]
Any of the staid, respectable, aged people who were there that night can testify to the truth of that statement. [5]
But to those staid residents of Hampton who had thought themselves still to be living in the old New England tradition, he was the genius of an evil dream. [9]
In the Rostovs' staid old-fashioned house the dissolution of former conditions of life was but little noticeable. [2]
Our fathers appeared staid at six and thirty. [9]
It was a splendid population--for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths staid at home--you never find that sort of people among pioneers --you cannot build pioneers out of that sort of material. [5]
I am to remain there a month and ransack the islands, the great cataracts and the volcanoes completely, and write twenty or thirty letters to the Sacramento Union--for which they pay me as much money as I would get if I staid at home. [5]
The staid family parties who are supping at adjoining tables notice this group with curiosity, and express their opinion by elevated eyebrows. [4]
There was little or no friendly intercourse; each party staid to itself. [5]
Some of the number staid upon the spot, conversed with him when he would converse, and watched him as he wandered up and down, alone and silent. [12]
And did I not overhear Church, another pilgrim, say he did not care who went or who staid, he would stand by me till I walked out of Damascus on my own feet or was carried out in a coffin, if it was a year? [5]
This, the old lady carried into the house with a staid and stately air, and the old gentleman (who had a club-foot) followed close upon her. [12]
But Susy Warner's intuitions were correct--so she choked off Charley, and staid home herself--we waited dinner an hour and you ought to have seen that duck when he was done drying in the oven. [5]
I got lost in Florence at nine o'clock, one night, and staid lost in that labyrinth of narrow streets and long rows of vast buildings that look all alike, until toward three o'clock in the morning. [5]
The last twenty-four hours we staid in Damascus I lay prostrate with a violent attack of cholera, or cholera morbus, and therefore had a good chance and a good excuse to lie there on that wide divan and take an honest rest. [5]
Tim staid with him till the last moment, and then took up his job at the Golden Brier, apparently as depressed by the continued barrenness of their mutual labors as Philip was himself. [5]
In his investigations he was assisted by Mr. De Long, to whom this social life was absolutely new, and who was disposed to regard it as peculiarly Yankee--the staid dissipation of a serious-minded people. [4]
He ought to have staid longer in this little paradise--partly for his own sake, but mainly for mine. [5]
You let them hang just as you put them on, and my master's work is full of folds and little lines in the robe and the peplos--But I have staid too long already. [10]
Cousin Jenny had grown white, Willie was a staid bachelor, Helen an old maid, while Mary had married a tall, anaemic young man with glasses, Walter Kinley, whom Cousin Robert had taken into the store. [9]
My face smarted for a couple of hours, but it was partly because I got it badly sun-burned while I was bathing, and staid in so long that it became plastered over with salt. [5]
It was the first time that ever staid and steadfast Higbie had left an important matter to chance or failed to be true to his full share of a responsibility. [5]
We see staid families, with prayer-book and beads, enter the gondola dressed in their Sunday best, and float away to church. [5]
But the excursion enjoyed its staid dissipation amazingly. [4]
I went to Elmira a little over a week ago, and staid four days and then had to go to New York on business. [5]
During the ten days or a fortnight we staid there one paper was murdered and resurrected twice. [5]
One of her cousins merried a very rich old gentleman, and she had heerd that he said he lived ten year longer than if he'd staid by himself without anybody to take care of him. [6]
And if I could furnish an American opportunity to staid Germany, I think I could wake her up like a house afire. [5]
I went back by invitation, after the evening service, and finished the blow-out, and then staid all night at Mr. Beach's. [5]
I staid faithfully by him until his comedy was finished. [5]
Then-- 'Dern sight better staid there! [5]
When he staid away the old man missed his pupil, and Scherau's happiest hours were those which he passed at his side. [10]
Have I done aught without Thy high behest Or moved or staid against Thy sovereign will? [10]
I only staid at the Owl Club till 3 this morning and drank little or nothing. [5]
They know they are not demons, nor even the worst of men; they know that generally they are kind, generous, and charitable even beyond the example of their more staid and sober neighbors. [7]
He came often and staid long. [5]
She staid there all night; nobody turned in. [5]
Had he been a policeman he would have staid, also--because he would have been asleep. [5]
Finally she said, "No, our staid, steady-going Hawkeye friends' notions and mine differ about some things --they respect me, now, and I respect them--better leave it so--I will go alone; I am not afraid to travel by myself. [5]

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