Mary and Lily have had to leave school early and Mary, a girl of twenty is taking lessons in painting while Lily stays at home.
We made most agreeable stays in the ports of Syracuse, Augusta, and Messina, before going to Naples.
Our cruise was a pleasant one, and our stays in port were interesting.
One day Sir Charles said, cheerfully, "Who do you think dines here to-morrow, and stays all night?
Lady Bassett loosened the stays too, and a deep sigh of relief told the truth, which the lying tongue had denied, as it always does whenever the same question is put.
I remembered then that the sand sometimes stays nearly smooth close to very high dunes, even in a storm.
This gun stays with me, and it's going to be centered on you every time I open this door.
Isak goes across to the smith's, and Eleseus stays where he is.
Inger goes inside with the child on her arm; Eleseus stays outside with the Lapp.
She had come out of curiosity, to see how far the little grave had been disturbed by Oline; she stays there now because the cattle have not yet come in for the night.
Sivert goes off, stays away for ages, and comes back with money, a heap of money.
Rather fun," said Michael, "if the weatherstays all right.
Now I call that really charming, and Pauline stays with me.
The first mention of stays that I have ever found is in the letters of dear old Synesius, Bishop of Cyrene, on the Greek coast of Africa, about four hundred years after the Christian era.
Now, it is just these lower ribs, across which the diaphragm is stretched like the head of a drum, which stays contract to a minimum.
It is considered essential to a fine figure, yet I never could discover any marks of stays in the statues of the Medicean Venus, or the Apollo.
He'd started out to godfather Spotty, and he stays right with the game.
She stays part of the time with you, and makes herself mighty popular with your kids; then she takes her trunk over to Rodney's and goes through the same performance there.
I stays and chins with the coachman while he walks the horses around the driveway.
She is to assist the hostess in keeping the house; and afterwards, if she takes to it well, and stays to be confirmed there, the people are going to adopt her as their own daughter.
The roof was taken off, and then the bottle was noticed, and they spoke about it, but it did not understand their language; for one cannot learn a language by being shut up in a loft, even if one stays there for twenty years.
She is a beauty, but I don't envy her, and there'll be trouble in the house if she stays long.
It provides either hay or pasturage, and is prized for the latter, as “it comes early and stays late.
Instead of coming and enjoying the convention, he stays home and does work that helps the Association, so I think the Association is very much indebted to him.
Impulsive Mary Magdalene Stays not, but hastens on That she may tell the wondrous news To Peter and to John.
Then silently they turn and go Each on his way--save one; 'Tis loving Mary Magdalene Who stays and weeps alone.
Lady Masham's eldest boy is very ill: I doubt he will not live, and she stays at Kensington to nurse him, which vexes us all.
Lord Treasurer has refused Sterne's business, and I doubt he is a rake; Jemmy Leigh stays for him, and nobody knows where to find him.
I stuffed the Secretary's pockets with papers, which he must read and settle at Hampton Court, where he went to-day, and stays some time.
He staysout so much at night that I think he'd really prefer not to use any daylight at all.
He can eat and sleep as well as ever, he stays out all day long on the veranda in the sun, and seems as well as any one; but he can't do any work at all.
He stays at the head of the class most of the time.
Not thyself, but God's restraining, Stays their growth of crime.
At first two wives cross the river, then one returns and takes over the remaining wife; after which she recrosses, and stays with her husband, and the two husbands cross over.
If that son of Pandu stays even for a moment before me in battle, I will bring him a captive from the field.
The stays were steel cable, and when one parted it curled back quick, the sharp ends of the broken wires clawing his leg.
Some of the stays came out at the eyes and some of 'em snapped.
You'll be riggin' a set of stays fur them when we hit the stream.
These longer stays in the country would offer him better opportunities for the enjoyment and study of this land of music than the short excursions which he occasionally made with his father into the neighbourhood of Warsaw.
No brave endeavor of the broken will To cling to such poor stays as will abide (Although the waves be wild and angry still) After the lapsing of the swollen tide.
The green leaf norstays nor goes, But it grows Royaler than mid-June's flowers.
On these shall fall As heavily the hand of Death, As when it stays the shepherd's breath Beside his stall.
Death takes us by surprise, And stays our hurrying feet; The great design unfinished lies, Our lives are incomplete.
Suns rise and set, and rise, and yet There is no land in sight; The liquid planets overhead Burn brighter now the moon is dead, And longer stays the night.
Behold, at last, Each tall and tapering mast Is swung into its place; Shrouds and stays Holding it firm and fast!
Thou hast but taken thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn.
A gentleman of Beauce who stays in bed till his breeches are mended.
He that stays in the valley will not get over the hill.
He can float about in any direction at will, but in actual fact he usually stays in the neighbourhood to which he is accustomed.
The time that the life-wave stays upon each planet is known as a world-period, and in the course of a world-period there are seven great root-races.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stays" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: corset; girdle; stay
