Abiding

Examples

• If you don't--it's a fine, law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman within hail. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• If only Birkin would form a close and abiding connection with her, she would be safe during this fretful voyage of life. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• This insight into the values of human life, partial though it be, is what constitutes the abiding monument of Plato's genius. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The sanctuary was not a permanent abiding-place, but a kind of criminal Pickford's. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It lasted only a short time, but its memory was abiding. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• But with the Mino, it is the desire to bring this female cat into a pure stable equilibrium, a transcendent and abiding RAPPORT with the single male. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Its abiding place was in all things fitted to it. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• And suppose injustice abiding in a single person, would your wisdom say that she loses or that she retains her natural power? Plato. The Republic.
• It has been the abiding place of many learned and famous Jewish rabbins. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I mean, at any rate, something abiding, something that can't change--' His eyes were bright and puzzled. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Their local attachments are very abiding. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Whatever there was of abiding worth in the life of the community sheltered there. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Lawlessness was soon suppressed, and the City of Mexico settled down into a quiet, law-abiding place. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• They no longer belonged to the earth; they had no abiding place anywhere. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

Typist: Vilma