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Definition of Staying
1. stay [v] - See also: stay
Lexicographical Neighbors of Staying
Literary usage of Staying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"Petition for rehearing dismissed, and order staying ... It is ordered that the
petition be dismissed, and the order staying the ..."
2. The Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen (1892)
"... and, scarcely staying to hope she would find it comfortable, left her with an
anxious entreaty that she would make as little alteration as possible in ..."
3. The Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen, Reginald Brimley Johnson (1892)
"... and, scarcely staying to hope she would find it comfortable, left her with an
anxious entreaty that she would make as little alteration as possible in ..."
4. English Hunger and Industrial Disorders: A Study of Social Conflict During by Walter James Shelton (1922)
"... The moan of multitudes in woe, The silent bleed of a world decaying, These
were the things we wished would go; But they were staying. in Then we looked ..."
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