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.

All through the excitement of the attack she had remained calm and collected, but now she felt that if she remained another minute in the same room with the two bodies, if she stayed near that row of shackled prisoners, if she should chance to catch Frederic's eye, she either would burst into hysterical weeping or would collapse entirely.

He stayed at the Ferguson place about ten years.

Then after that our mistress wanted to go back to her old home in Mississippi and couldn't take us with her cause she didn't have any money, so we stayed here.

Stayed in the house all my life.

"I stayed here till Dr. BrewsterDr.

Stayed there awhile, then the war started and he carrled us all to Texas.

Her husband ran away from the white folks and stayed three years.

I stayed there three days and nights and didn't get anything to eat.

Then I worked around till May 24 when I was hired at the Mountain Shops as Engine wiper for about six or eight months, then painted flues for three or four months, then was wood hauler for about thirteen or more years, then took care of the situation with shavings and oil, then stayed in wash room six or seven years until I was retired.

Presuming on the one thing that I felt quite sure of by that timemy privileged position as a guestI stayed, to try to draw him out.

His guardian, an old Indian officer living in the neighborhood, and formerly a very old friend of his father's, always came over to see him and stayed to lunch, the two boys joining their elders at that meal.

"I was so afraid he was going to die as long as he stayed in bed," he confided to Dudley: "I hope no one will ever die that I like, it must be such a dreadful thing to have them gone.

But Roy would not leave the beach till the tea bell sounded, and then he crept in with such a white, weary face that kind Mrs. Hawthorn put him straight to bed, and stayed with him listening to his trouble till tired out and exhausted he fell asleep.

Sam didn't mind going, as it 'appened, as he 'oped to meet 'is new pal there and tell 'im his troubles, but, though they stayed there some time, 'e didn't turn up.

He stayed in bed next morning, 'cos he said 'is sides was aching, but 'e laughed agin as they was going out, and when they came back he 'ad gorn.

I stayed outside in the street, of course, but every now

We stayed in camp a couple of days longer, then, as signs of a rainstorm were prevalent, we packed up and left camp very early one morning, and the first day got back to Newhall.

Allison's eyes were nearly ruined, and his face filled with powder, the marks of which stayed with him the rest of his life.

The entire Lincoln family stayed the last night before starting on their journey with Mr. Gentry.

Here Ludwig stayed many days, coming every day to the king's palace to pay his respects to the king and queen, and to make his court to the princess.

And the only man who called himself an American was the chief officer; and he was only half a one; for he was born in Germany, came to the United States when he was twenty years old, stayed there five years, which didn't count either way, and had now been naturalized for twenty years.

Yet it was done, and, save one alone, every spectator who had come with a far different intent stayed and listened to the end.

"I warned you that if you stayed we'd be ourselves to-day.

"If that dirty wretch had not run away," he thought, "we might have stayed undiscovered here until a vessel came.

At the auberge he said he was going au Pay, but after he saw Celeste Barbeau he stayed in Caho'.