Abide ( page 5 ).
Questions.
1. What limit of time is expressed by abide? by lodge? by live, dwell, reside? 2. What is the meaning of sojourn? 3. Should we say one is stopping or staying at a hotel? and why? 4. Give examples of the extended, and of the limited use of abide.
Examples.
One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth —— forever.
And there were in the same country shepherds —— in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
So great was the crowd of visitors that many were compelled to —— in the neighboring villages.
He is —— at the Albemarle.
He has —— for forty years in the same house.
By faith he —— in the land of promise, as in a strange country.