De Batz saw that all was over if he staid, and hesitated for a moment whether he should blow out his brains, and try to accomplish the queen's deliverance by force; but a little reflection showed him that the noise of fire-arms would bring up a crowd of enemies beyond his ability to overpower, and it soon appeared that it would tax all his resources to secure his own escape.

Of course we all joined in, as only Englishmen can, and this became so infectious that even the staid mandarins unbent and added their quota to the noise.

I staid till I saw them all marched out to take Coach; the brother loaded with a great Cheese, he prevailed upon her to take for her Civilities to [his] Sister.

Now Liddesdale has ridden a raid, But I wat they had better hae staid at hame; For Michael o'

A Grey Friar staid upon the grave, And sang till the morning tide; And a friar shall sing for Barthram's soul While the Headless Cross shall bide.

They 'come aboard' a trench and call their records-officea staid and solid bourgeois dwelling in HavreH.M.S. Victory.

Susan had a frienda dear old intimate of school-days, now a staid woman of eight-and-twentywho was to go out in yet maturer companionship into the hospitals.

Into a quiet corner of the dancing-hall, skimming her way, with the dance yet in her feet, between groups of staid observers, she came straight, one evening, from a bright, spirited figure of the German, and stretched her hand to Martha Josselyn.

When the American revivalists were at their height, there were many quiet and staid New England ministers who found in Taylor a welcome ally against the extravagances which they witnessed and deplored.

Converts not infrequently lent new force in the pulpit, but at the risk of substituting an eager missionary spirit for the usual staid decorum of the old families.

This is the third time this month that she has staid away because of sickness!

He and Monk, Duke of Albemarle, heroically staid in town during the dreadful pestilence, and at the hazard of their lives preserved order in the midst of the terror of the times."

I knew my presence would be very unwelcome, but staid hoping that it might restrain, in some measure, the passions of the mistress.

There Scott staid till August 7, when he again pushed westward, and on the 10th saw the city of Mexico.

It is impossible to say how long they might not have staid watching Hermione, but that after a time the sketch was finished, and the young lady after writing beneath it Schiller's well known line in Wallenstein, arose.

One of the turnkeys had each time come into the room with him, and continued as long as he staid.

H. immortalized the transit in what the French call un croquis, but it would hardly bear reproduction in the pages of a narrative so staid as this.

From lay, pay, say, and stay, are formed laid, paid, said, and staid; but the regular words, layed, payed, stayed, are sometimes used.

These, and the following examples from Scott, are a fair specimen of the uncertainty of present usage: "The herds without a keeper strayed, The plough was in mid-furrow staid.

I staid wid Ole Man Scruggs a long time.

I staid wid dat boss docta sumpin like a yer, an den wont back to my Ole Boss.

I staid wid my muther til she died.

, their conscientious but feeble endeavour to look something more staid than a couple of children just out of school.

Then they kissed; and the staid woman went her way down the road, while the staid man loitered for a moment by the gate and watched her as she went.

Then they kissed; and the staid woman went her way down the road, while the staid man loitered for a moment by the gate and watched her as she went.