It was a different scene from any in the Philadelphia of those days--with our staid citizens, and sweet, gentle, modest Quaker ladies in their plain dress!
She knew him in a moment: there he was, with his staid face, his black clothes, and his white neckcloth, looking so like a clergyman.
To hear him, and not see him, you might think you were listening to some staid and respectable friend of the family.
I staid all night, and the next morning was most piercing cold, and so they persuaded me not to go home that day.
I staid that night, and in the morning they still insisted I couldn't get home.
I staid with her until Monday morning, and then I put out for home.
We therefore staid only a short time in the light of the fires about the town, preferring the light of the moon and the shade of the woods.
I at last found I couldn't catch up with them, and so I gave up the hunt, and turned back to the last house I had passed, and staid there till morning.
We staid also next morning till after breakfast: but in vain, for the major didn't still come.
I staid with him a few weeks, and then went on to my father's, which place I reached late in the evening.
We staid all night with them, and had a high night of it, as I took steam enough to drive out all the cold that was in me, and about three times as much more.
The last night I staid with Mr. Myers, was at a place where several other waggoners also staid.
Here we staid for several days, in which time the troops began to collect from all quarters.
Let it suffice to say here that she was somewhat staid in her demeanour, and not at all given to putting herself forward in conversation.
She was a tall, thin, staid girl, who never put herself forward in any of those walks of life in which such a young lady as she is called upon to show herself.
The best thing Alcott did while he staid among us was to circulate some copies of your Man the Reformer.
I hope I know a gentleman when I see one," she said, with a break in her staid voice.
Staid Mrs. Bunting seemed to make but one leap down the steep stairs.
I live a life of pleasure, I hate the man that staid is; I think earth owns no treasure So charming as the ladies!
I live a life of pleasure, I hate the man that staid is!
Some of the staid citizens of Parma sent petitions to Pope Julius demanding that the decree of strict cloistration be enforced against the nuns.
We staid in Camp Benton about three weeks and got paid for rations that we did not eat while prisoners of war, and three months' extra pay.
So the woman staid at home, and gave her son suck, till she weaned him.
But Josue staid that night in the midst of the people, 8:10.
When I came home, my wife and her mother and I, quarelled, and I had them both upon me at once: she then ran away, and staid all night.
They staid on board all night, my wife crying bitterly to persuade me to come home again, promising an entire reformation in her conduct.
Piquet, a Brigideer General in the British Service; westaid here a few minutes, we were then put under an English Guard, who treated us better than we had been before; under this guard we went to New York.
And their tongues shall be staid that they shall not utter against me; and their flesh shall fall from off their bones, and their eyes from their sockets: 20.
I lived on the third floor of a modest lodging, and all the wrecks of art that neither first, second, nor fourth would buy, found their way into my parlor, and staid there at my expense.
At one of the two hotels we staid long enough to order lemonades and drink them.
The state-rooms below being intensely hot and close in consequence of the rain, we all staid up stairs as long as possible, and our final retreat was made in the order of our symptoms.
The staid New England women-servants brought in the refreshments, excellent of their kind, and carefully selected for their suitableness to the occasion.
I could a staid if I'd a wanted to, but I didn't want to.
I endeavoured to show him that he was a helpless, undone sinner; and that all his hope was in the merits of Christ: staid with him nearly two hours, during which he seemed earnestly seeking mercy.
I staid the communion for the first time; how solemn!
I think the "Middle Class Music Halls" had taken their share in the progress, by breaking down much of the staid reserve and self-restraint of the respectable middle class.
He staid with us as long as he dared, kept his rough winds blowing, froze all the water he could spy out, and made the snow fall.
Meg privately thought if that were the way he had "staid with Granny," he might as well have gone with her to the village; but she kept her reflections to herself, and sat down to wait for the doctor.
I staid on the mountain from early morning till half-past three, and there being then no prospect of a change went down.
I had left my bedding at the Hot Springs Hotel, and returning to get it staid there all night.
We staid several days in the canyon after that, and killed plenty of elk and other game.
Mr. Stanton staid in Savannah several days, and seemed very curious about matters and things in general.
