489 examples of biding in sentences

Plants and animals, biding their time, closely followed the retiring ice, bestowing quick and joyous animation on the new-born landscapes.

"We arrest 'ee on the charge of not biding in Casterbridge jail in a decent proper manner to be hung to-morrow morning.

Now there had been great doings that morning, for a certain yeoman named Egbert, who came from Stoke over in Staffordshire, had thrown with ease all those that came against him; but a man of Denby, well known through all the countryside as William of the Scar, had been biding his time with the Stoke man; so, when Egbert had thrown everyone else, stout William leaped into the ring.

H. Here is no biding, masters: get ye in, Take a short blessing at your mother's hands.

Isn't it curious, by the way, that the fellow who stole and hid this girl should be the innocent means of revealing her biding place?"

I fear that he is only biding his time.

Those who caused your misfortunes are watching you day and night, they suspect that you are only biding your time, they take your eagerness to learn, your love of study, your very complaisance, for burning desires for revenge.

We four, Mr. Godwin holding Moll's hand in his, stood in a group betwixt Mohand and his men and the cabin where Joe Groves lay with his fellows, biding his time.

There it briefly beamed upon the busy life of Our Square with its bland and hypocritical face, and there, thrice and no more, it sounded the passing of the hours with its sweet and false voice, biding the stroke of nine.

They seemed to be biding their time.

Moreover, she knew it was a mistake to make herself too accessible to a man of Peter's sort: her impatience to enjoy was curbed by an instinct for holding off and biding her time that resembled the patient skill with which her father had conducted the sale of his "bad" real estate in the Pure Water Move days.

He sat motionless and silent, calmly biding his time to express the disapproval which such childish behavior made incumbent upon him.

For she also knew that he was merely biding his time, merely gathering strength to speak, merely waiting till he had found words strong and tender enough.

Not that tradition's parts are useless here, When general, old, disinteress'd, and clear: That ancient Fathers thus expound the page, Gives Truth the reverend majesty of age: Confirms its force, by biding every test; For best authority's next rules are best.

He charged Mike at once to creep forth to join the negroes, and to bid them tell one of their color who served in the house to take an opportunity to whisper to one of his master's guestsfor he learned that they were biding there for the night, "Be in the grove near the house when all are asleep."

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Hearing the words of the (universal) grandfather (Brahma), all the foremost gods went their way biding the day (when the ocean was to be filled again).

Every moment the strain on her nerves grew tenser, the fear lest she should swoon, more immediate, more appalling; and still the man sat in his corner, motionless, peeping at her through his fingers, leering and biding his time.

" He had never been conscious that he had observed it; but the image had lain latent in his mind, biding its time.

But I, Hugo Gottfried, had my eyes and my books open, and knew that I was but biding my time.

Biding along on the train, near to the line between California and Oregon, he chanced to look out of the window and saw his unsociable guest sliding along the wagon road, brown and wolfish, tired yet tireless, dust-covered and soiled with two hundred miles of travel.

"Well, deary darlings, you see poor Madam Oakshott never had her health since the Great Fire in London, when she was biding with her kinsfolk to be near Major Oakshott, who had got into trouble about some of his nonconforming doings.

Patiently biding his time until they were sound asleep, Charlemagne picked up a worthless trifle, and noiselessly made his way out, returning home unseen.

"Where's the sense of biding here," said he, "to be burned to deeth wi' drought?

She only knew that somewhere the eyes that had watched her all the afternoon were watching her still, intent and tireless, biding their time.

489 examples of  biding  in sentences