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Example sentences for "abed"

Lexicographically close words:
abductors; abducts; abeam; abear; abeawt; abeen; abeout; aber; aberrant; aberration
  1. Odysseus give us the key to the whole situation and explain why she lies abed so much weeping and not knowing what to do.

  2. Aunt's abed upstairs; can't see you to-night.

  3. But the very first night we lay abed Befell his sorrow and harm, That thither came the King's ill men, And slew him on mine arm.

  4. Until, say they who know the thing, Their very lips did kiss, And Sorrow laid abed with Spring Begat an earthly bliss.

  5. Over long thou sleepest there, The while the King's son Hafbur Lies abed by Signy the fair.

  6. King's children have I eaten with, And lain down by their side: Must I lie abed now with a very nurse?

  7. I lie abed now, and I blush to think of some of the breaks I made in South Africa.

  8. He forced himself to lie abed the morning they were to be off, until after the train left.

  9. I couldn't lay abed longer this beautiful morning," exclaimed Lucy as she came up to them.

  10. Now no sooner was Titus abed with the lady, than, taking her in his arms, he, as if jestingly, asked in a low tone whether she were minded to be his wife.

  11. It had been a grand chance to be idle wi'oot havin' to reproach myself; to enjoy life a bit, and lie abed of a morn wi' a clear conscience.

  12. And then I could lie abed in the morning!

  13. Yet, on the top of this, as he lay abed awhile in the leisure of Sunday morning, with no train to catch, he remembered his father's B.

  14. I'll get up," said Andy, too sore beset by his problem to lie abed any more.

  15. Yet now I think of it, I know I have always loved you dearly; else why should I have been so hurt when you misused me; why should I have cried abed so many, many nights, vowing to my heart that I did hate you as I hated no man!

  16. Slyly content to doze abed here in Sir William's room, I understood that I must have been lying sick a long, long time, but could not remember when I had fallen ill.

  17. Sir William was sick abed and suffering pitifully, but he rose and refused to listen to Doctor Pierson, saying that the congress should never be delayed by anything but his own death.

  18. Sir William lay abed all day, unable to see for the frightful pains in his head.

  19. What possible chance could Tippu-Tib, Abed bin Salim, Ugarrowwa and Kilonga-Longa have against the Basongora and Bakusu?

  20. Looking at it night after night when Mrs. Kinney was long abed and the grateful silences had drowned the noise of day, Anthony Trent longed for an emerald to bear these lordly jewels company.

  21. The servants are all abed and there are no house guests.

  22. It is a cold, winter's night and the Bard lies abed meditating upon the brevity of life, when Sleep and his sister Nightmare pay him a visit, and after a long parley, constrain him to accompany them to the Court of their brother Death.

  23. It was pleasant in the mornings, too, to lie abed in criminal indolence, hearing from afar the racket of somebody else building the fire.

  24. They whispered as parents do when their children are abed up-stairs.

  25. The next morning I was abed at an hour which the sobriety of old age makes me blush abed think of.

  26. All you have to do is to stay abed and keep still.

  27. I was abed all day about a month ago, and certainly I rove hard enough and long enough yesterday and I was in the Temple half the night.

  28. They are so vexed to think that to-morrow they will be entirely well, but for to-day there is absolutely nothing for it but they must both keep abed and in the dark.

  29. Numisia will not suspect anything: any Vestal has the right to twenty-four hours abed and no questions asked, Meffia spent one day out of ten in bed.

  30. That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.

  31. When the servants were long abed and asleep and the silences of the early hours hung about the great corridors and halls Anthony Trent came into his own.

  32. The peasants were early abed and the way would be deserted until he struck the Marie Louise road.

  33. He would rise as early as between two and three in the height of summer, and lie abed till between eleven and twelve in the depth of winter.

  34. If he is trimming, others are true; the queen hath no more fits, but is abed now, and more quiet.

  35. You first help your Lady abed, and then hie abed yourself, in the dark, as silently and hastefully as may be.

  36. Boys like you ought to be abed at eight o'clock instead of settin' up half the night.

  37. It's time you were abed too, Sam," said the lady.

  38. Aben Abed was exiled, with his wife and daughters, and was sent to the castle of Aginat, in Africa, to live his life away.

  39. As proof of his good faith and by way of inducement, Aben Abed decided to offer to Alfonso the hand of his daughter, Zaida, in marriage.

  40. The dreaming hunter still the chace pursues, The judge abed dispenses still the laws, And sleeps again o'er the unfinish'd cause.

  41. You may easily guess at the Condition of a Man that saw a Couple of the most beautiful Women in the World undrest and abed with him, without being able to stir Hand or Foot.

  42. But I was lying abed in the Crawford House when the voice of Zonotrichia albicollis sent my thoughts thus astray, from Moosilauke to Delphi.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.