Citations:abiding-place


 * 1827: John Keble, The Christian Year
 * ...but Thou wilt grace The single heart to be Thy sure abiding-place.


 * 1843: Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit
 * He was ten good miles from the village made illustrious by being the abiding-place of Mr Pecksniff, when he stopped to breakfast at a little roadside alehouse;


 * 1849: Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
 * Mr. Spenlow conducted me through a paved courtyard formed of grave brick houses, which I inferred, from the Doctors' names upon the doors, to be the official abiding-places of the learned advocates of whom Steerforth had told me;


 * 1856: Wilkie Collins, After Dark
 * The reproach of the world is terrible even in the crowded city, where many of the dwellers in our abiding-place are strangers to us


 * 1857: Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays
 * The other shelves, where they had not been cut away and used by the owner for other purposes, were fitted up for the abiding-places of birds, beasts, and reptiles.


 * 1857: Elizabeth Gaskell, Life of Charlotte Bronte
 * These things make one feel, as well as know, that this world is not our abiding-place.


 * 1871: Thomas Hardy, Desperate Remedies
 * It is a beginning, and, above all, an abiding-place, away from the shadow of the cloud which hangs over us here


 * 1876: George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
 * The deliverer's footstep must be near -- the deliverer who was to rescue Mordecai's spiritual travail from oblivion, and give it an abiding-place in the best heritage of his people.




 * 1885: Walter Pater, Marius the Epicurean, Vol. II,
 * Marius felt that his own thoughts were passing beyond the actual intention of the speaker; not in the direction of any clearer theoretic or abstract definition of that ideal commonwealth, but rather as if in search of its visible locality and abiding-place, the walls and towers of which, so to speak, he might really trace and tell, according to his own old, natural habit of mind.


 * 1886: George Gissing, Demos
 * In those days it had seemed fast in the order of things that Wanley Manor should be his home through life; how otherwise? Was it not the abiding-place of the Eldons from of old?


 * 1886: Andrew Lang, Books and Bookmen
 * Innocent or guilty, this world was no longer a fit abiding-place for Margaret Sherioux.


 * 1889: Walter Pater, Appreciations, With An Essay on Style
 * Now what is true of it everywhere, is truest of it in those secluded valleys where one generation after another maintains the same abiding-place...


 * 1902: Joseph Conrad, End of the Tether
 * The white wood packing-case under the bed-place had remained unopened for three years now, as though Captain Whalley had felt that, after the Fair Maid was gone, there could be no abiding-place on earth for his affections.


 * 1913: Pauline Johnson, The Moccasin Maker
 * The next girl married in Ohio, and the boys drifted away, glad to escape from a parental tyranny that made home anything but a desirable abiding-place.