Stays

Examples

• As long as she stays there, it is all very well. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Yes; but it's all too pretty, and your stays are too well made. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• But it's no joke, you know--if she stays here all the autumn she'll spoil everything, and Maria Van Osburgh will simply exult. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Was it her shoes, her stays, or her bones? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• By some means his brother sold one of his machines to Mr. William Thomas, a corset maker of London, and Howe was induced to go there to make stays, and his machines. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• However, he is a tiptop man and may be a bishop--that kind of thing, you know, if Peel stays in. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• So each consul's family stays at home chiefly and amuses itself as best it can. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• What a good fire there is in her room when she comes to pay you a visit, although your wife laces her stays without one! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Yet it seems to me your life is hardly secure while she stays. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Louis thinks it was her stays. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He stays till to-morrow, and Miss Fairfax has been persuaded to spend the day with us. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Is Beth the rosy one, who stays at home good deal and sometimes goes out with a little basket? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Undo his stays! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Bring him in, Gabriel, and stay here as long as he stays. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He has been helping the police,' said Bounderby, 'and stays behind at the Bank. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.

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