our elders stayed in the dark house or sat fanning on the front porch.

When Blackman emerged from the bedroom, everyone was gone except the tolerant Lord Thomson, who stayed and chatted with him for half an hour, and then Blackman lay awake most of that night, despairing of what he must expect on the Continent.

Rachel stayed on after the doctor had gone.

When they got home Harold was grateful for the stillness in the apartment, and thought how, under different circumstances, they might have stayed on here, in these old-fashioned, high-ceilinged rooms that reminded him of the Irelands' apartment in the East Eighties.

They stayed in their own world on the bluff, waiting for letters and the peddler, bringing the news.

Whole platoons were taking up new positions on the steps, arriving and departing, while I stayed glued, like a signpost, to one spot.

I stayed on the car for a few minutes until, turning right, it entered a huge square, Bayezit, with the Bayezit Mosque on the right and the gate to the university just beyond it.

In Nara I stayed at the hotel where the Prince and Princess had stayed on their honeymoon.

But Hoag had not stayed on the front steps when Griffith disappeared into the building.

`` I think the big thing about the game was that our kids for the third straight week stayed in there pitching and kept the pressure on.

He took a midnight train out of Cleveland Saturday, without an official word to anybody, and has stayed away from newsmen on his train trip across the nation to Reno, Nev., where his wife, former Olympic Diving Champion Zoe Ann Olsen, awaited.

Miss Burke, a graduate of Miss Hall's school, stayed on in Florence as a career girl.

Looking unto God, the Prophet Isaiah wrote these blessed words almost three thousand years ago: `` Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee ''.

My own earliest memories are of exiles: my three brothers and I were taken often to the United States `` to visit relatives '' while my father stayed on to fight the dictator Machado.

Night after night he stayed with Gunny in the dead of winter, rubbing her with quarts of expensive liniment, fussing over her bran mash as the cook did over charlotte russe, tracking manure on the pretty new carpet when he did come to the house.

So they stayed quiet and hung not on what he said but on how he said it, not listening exactly, but rather, feeling.

Bairnson played on all albums and Paton stayed almost until the end.

David, in fear, carried the Ark aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite, instead of carrying it on to Zion, and there it stayed three months ( 2 Samuel 6: 1-11 ; 1 Chronicles 13: 1-13 ).

The rest of that people stayed at the centre of the Angle homeland in the northeastern portion of the modern German Bundesland of Schleswig-Holstein, on the Jutland Peninsula.

I stayed on longer than I should have ," he admitted, adding that he couldn't breathe anymore.

As the batsman started to walk back, captain Rahul Dravid declared the innings when confusion started as the umpires were not certain if the fielder stepped on the ropes and Dhoni stayed for the umpire's verdict.

It was a combined music, talk show and documentary program which was a major hit during the 8 years it stayed on air.

He found a good port, landed, repaired and restocked his vessels, then stayed for a time, keeping friendly relations with the natives.

: For my part, I was never an admirer of Uncle Tom, nor of his type of goodness ; but I believe that there were lots of old Negroes as foolishly good as he ; the proof of which is that they knowingly stayed and worked on the plantations that furnished sinews for the army which was fighting to keep them enslaved .”

I got good players, stayed out of the way, let ' em win a lot, and then just hung around for 26 years.

Farmers and businessmen, they added their knowledge, and stayed through the good and the difficult years in early Currie.

The second marriage became dysfunctional, although husband and wife remained on good terms and stayed together until their children were grown up, when Hart-Davis and Comfort divorced.

Meanwhile, Furious managed to secure Tre ( Cuba Gooding Jr .), who now holds a steady job working at the Fox Hills Mall, and has stayed away from gangs and fights while excelling with good grades at school.

However, they made a good team: Redmond, who was a fine speaker and liked the House of Commons, dealt with the British politicians, while Dillon, who disliked London, the Commons and their influence on Irish politicians, stayed in Ireland and kept Redmond in touch with national feelings.

They also survived the merge with The Beezer and stayed on with the newly renamed comic Beezer and Topper until 1992 before quietly disappearing for good.

However most fans knew that the team wasn't very good, and they'd already seen the halftime show, so they stayed away.

including one over former world champion Rene Arredondo, but when he lost by decision in ten to former Oscar De La Hoya world title challenger Wilfredo Rivera on May 30 of 1998, he decided to retire for good, and has stayed in retirement ever since.

From very young he was given to God and stayed in a Monastery, where he cultivated virtue and became a good labourer of God's commands.

In an aside that illustrates the complexities of Southern political allegiances during the relevant period, Portis's narrator Mattie Ross says: " brought a good deal of misery to the land in the Panic of ’ 93 but I am not ashamed to own that my family supported him and has stayed with the Democrats right on through, up to and including Governor Alfred Smith, and not only because of Joe Robinson.

In the United Kingdom, the early arrival of migrant Woodcock in autumn was said to mean a good harvest, especially if they stayed until spring.

Religion was then an important part of junior education in Scotland, and the school gave him a good knowledge of the Bible, which stayed with him for the rest of his life.

During the battle, the local populace had been able to escape with most of the town's goods, but the raiding warships still stayed in the good port of Hammerfest for eight days.

He stayed in St. Petersburg for several months, and then, being on good terms with Tsar Paul and his court, returned to Poland, into his estates in Warsaw ( Copper-Roof and Myślewicki palaces ) and in Jabłonna.

In 1579, Francis Drake, on his circumnavigation of the globe in the Golden Hind, found a good port somewhere along the northwest coast of North America and stayed for several months while restocking supplies and trading with the inhabitants of the area.

The leaders understood that they would be wiped out, along with a good part of the city, if they stayed.

" W. H. Auden comments on Causley stating that " Causley stayed true to what he called his ' guiding principle ' ... while there are some good poems which are only for adults, because they pre-suppose adult experience in their readers, there are no good poems which are only for children.

But Allen was unable to put together a good run of form in the First Division, and Albion only stayed up after winning their final game of the season.

After several years on and off of Cash Money Records, Brown and fellow rapper Juvenile decided to leave the label for good in 2000 and go to UTP Records, where Brown stayed until 2003.

The Black Cat stayed open as a luncheonette for a few more months before finally closing for good in February 1964.

Those who stayed behind — mostly women and children — suffered deeply in their absence ; However, the Portuguese discoveries only started in 1415 and since the word has been found earlier this does not constitute a very good explanation.