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Example sentences for "abode"

Lexicographically close words:
abnormality; abnormally; abnormities; aboad; aboard; abodes; abolish; abolished; abolishes; abolishing
  1. If a man love me, he will keep my words, and my Father will love him; and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him'?

  2. He with whom Christ will take up his abode is he who says, 'Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof.

  3. An account is given by Herodotus of the abode of a Thracian tribe, the Pæonians, who lived on Lake Prasias, now Lake Takinos, situated in the country known in the present day as Roumelia.

  4. In 1863 the level of this lake having been lowered, the fact became apparent that it had been, in olden times, the abode of a lacustrine population.

  5. No fixt abode the traitor knows-- On sportive wings he flies; Awhile he dallies with the rose, Then smiles in lovers' eyes.

  6. Her abode was truly an enlivening scene, with its variety of maskers, bright dominoes and vizards.

  7. Nell's eyes arose with an expression of sadness, while her finger pointed down--ward in the direction of what she deemed the probable abode of her departed "Nell.

  8. I saw Adair enter this abode at midnight.

  9. Our hostess will pardon my eyes for wandering," she said, undaunted; "but her abode is filled with pleasant surprises.

  10. The glen was known to be the abode of robbers, and at last a strong force was sent against them, and they were all killed, except one little girl of ten years old, whom it was thought a shame to destroy.

  11. With forty of his most devoted disciples he took up his abode in a village near Canterbury.

  12. Wotan and Loge in Nibelheim, the abode of the Nibelungs, is the next picture.

  13. Klingsor's castle is the abode of temptation.

  14. Venus, according to various traditions, lived in more than one cave, but her favourite abode was the Hoerselberg in Thuringia.

  15. When the King has finished his long and pathetic address, Tristan turns to Isolde and asks her whether she is willing to follow him to the land where the sun never shines, the wondrous abode of night.

  16. They also believed that when transported at death to His central abode they should look with rapture upon His ineffable being.

  17. If a man love me he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

  18. The larger abode of a scientific universe is a veritable prison when we have cast out the God of our fathers.

  19. The beginning of strife had made its way into the house, and the door had remained ajar so that it might enter in and take up its abode there.

  20. She little knew that misery had long ago taken up its abode in her house.

  21. So Godfrey and his wife took up their abode at the parsonage, and Mina of course went to pay them a visit.

  22. Peace had taken leave of the house, and had gone forth calmly to the place from whence she came, and during that time of illness, care and sorrow had taken up their abode there, deepening with the growing weakness of the good old man.

  23. The abode that looked so cheerless, and which had so evidently hung long on hand, was the property of Squire Hazeldean.

  24. You have a charming abode here," said Lord L'Estrange, looking round.

  25. Finally, she took up her abode in Rome, where she is esteemed for a life not only marked by strict propriety, but active benevolence.

  26. Burley, persecuted by duns, was about to fly from his present lodgings, and take his abode with Leonard, in the room she had left vacant, all doubt was over.

  27. The first person to summon to the wedding is my brother Dhuma Sikha, who has taken up his abode in a deserted temple a few miles from here.

  28. One of the vaults was inhabited by an old woman, who claimed the right of abode there, as the widow of a man whose ancestors had possessed the same gloomy mansion for no less than four generations.

  29. Soon afterwards we came to the General's Hut, so called because it was the temporary abode of Wade, while he superintended the works upon the road.

  30. All his dreams of felicity having been shattered, he took up his abode in Paris, where he made a poor living by copying music.

  31. The count's brother, Baron Frederick Rudolstadt, with his daughter Amelia, had for some time past taken up their abode in the Castle of the Giants, and it was the hope of the two brothers that Albert and Amelia would become betrothed.

  32. He was looking with compassion upon the distant heaps of whitened skeletons through which I had been led to the abode of the sages.

  33. No, says another, they take up their abode in the Fallopian tubes.

  34. The abode of physicians is in large towns; there are scarcely any in country places.

  35. Will the soul which was ready to take up its abode in this woman's foetus return unhoused?

  36. And the maiden took up her abode in the palace; and she had many companions, both men and women, and there was no maiden more esteemed than she in the Island of Britain.

  37. And as he abode thus clad with arms, about the third watch of the night, lo, he heard many surpassing fascinations and various songs.

  38. Then his adventure came to Owain's remembrance, and he was sorrowful; and having finished eating he went to his own abode and made preparations that night.

  39. And these abode as seven ministers to take charge of this island; and Caradawc the son of Bran was the chief amongst them.

  40. That night also they took up their abode in the house of Custennin the herdsman.

  41. Mr. Duncan had removed his family farther east, where he would be less liable to be annoyed by hostile Indians, and there taking up his abode determined to await until he could learn the fate of his children.

  42. Jones and Cole refused to take up their abode there.

  43. This is an evil place, and the evil spirits that have their abode here, have stirred up strife among us already!

  44. It is the abode of the Evil Spirits," said he, "and they have lured me hither.

  45. But, we will be here in the morning again, and clear out some of this rubbish, so that we can take up our abode here as soon as Sidney can be moved, and then we will devote our time in preparing for every contingency in our power.

  46. I gave him the keys of my abode at Muran, and told him to assure Murray that I would keep the appointment at the exact time arranged upon.

  47. I was so charmed with the peace of this abode that I actually forgot who was lying in the next room in a feverish slumber.

  48. Stockholm was now possessed by the Danes, King Christiern had taken up his abode in one of the palaces, and Christina had been forced to retire to the castle, which was strongly guarded, and still held out against the Danes.

  49. The grand old house they lived in was an abode worthy of a noble race.

  50. Now it happened that Quibain, the chief of the district, was very angry when he saw the Spaniards had taken up their abode in his country, and ordered all his fighting men to be ready to drive them away.

  51. When the Cid had taken up his abode in the vast and beautiful Alcazar, the people began to cast off their sorrow and gloom, and to take part in the rejoicings made by the Spaniards.

  52. Some of the companions of his boyhood recognised him, and told him that William of Normandy had given his estate to a low-born foreigner, and that a party of Normans had just taken up their abode in the house.

  53. Meanwhile the Cid, leaving Alcocer, had taken up his abode on the hill near Medina, which still bears his name.

  54. After arguing he must do so to secure a better abode for himself and his followers, the fiend transforms himself first into one beast and then into another, and, having approached the pair unnoticed, listens to their conversation.

  55. Many years abode they there, Many years in shade or sun, In great gladness and delight.

  56. Then the pair enter the bower selected for their abode by the sovereign planter, where the loveliest flowers bloom in profusion, and where no bird, beast, insect, or worm dares venture.

  57. In that hopeless and dark abode the captain of the brigands is beginning to cast lustful glances upon Pastorella, when merchants arrive to purchase their captives as slaves.

  58. Addressing these deities, Satan commiserates them for having lost Tartarus, now the abode of the fallen angels, as well as the region of light occupied by the new world.

  59. Such a trifle as the massacre of twenty-one thousand of his fiends in three hours' time, naturally enrages Ravana, whose abode is in Ceylon, in a golden palace which has such high walls that no one can peep over them.

  60. Soon after, seeing that the Moors and Christians would never be able to live in peace within the same enclosure, the Cid appointed another place of abode for the Moors.

  61. This party soon discovered the abode of the enchantress Circe, who, aware of their approach, had prepared a banquet and a magic drug.

  62. Next Beatrice directs his attention to some descending spirits, the most radiant of which is St. Benedict, who explains how blissful spirits often leave the heavenly abode "to execute the counsel of the Highest.

  63. After a few days the party landed in England and took up their abode at Ludworth Castle.

  64. Gambetta's birthplace was Cahors, that city in the South of France stigmatized by Dante as the abode of usurers and scoundrels.

  65. It is a stranger who has been long a guest; and we make it welcome to stay, until it can take up a more suitable abode in a complete system of anthropology--the pendant to empirical physics.

  66. It must take up its abode only in the region of complete certitude, whether this relates to the cognition of objects themselves, or to the limits which bound all our cognition.

  67. Christ's promised gift--the gift of gifts--rested on that humble abode of His faithful followers.


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