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Bide   /baɪd/   Listen
verb
Bide  v. t.  
1.
To encounter; to remain firm under (a hardship); to endure; to suffer; to undergo. "Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm."
2.
To wait for; as, I bide my time. See Abide.


Bide  v. i.  (past & past part. bided; pres. part. biding)  
1.
To dwell; to inhabit; to abide; to stay. "All knees to thee shall bow of them that bide In heaven or earth, or under earth, in hell."
2.
To remain; to continue or be permanent in a place or state; to continue to be.





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"Bide" Quotes from Famous Books



... the woman his card. On it he had written "About Miss Trevert." Speaking in German the woman bade them rather roughly to bide where they were, and departed after closing the front door in their faces. She did not keep them waiting long, however, for in about a minute she returned. Herr Schulz would ...
— The Yellow Streak • Williams, Valentine
... "By the Lord who made me, and who shall be Doom's-man at the last day, come what may thereof, since Sir Gawain rideth hence 'tis not I will bide behind! Rather will I try what may chance, and adventure all that God hath given me, for he sought me with all his power when I was in secret case, and brought me once more to court—for that do I ...
— The Romance of Morien • Jessie L. Weston
... Sir, and she has rather forgotten hersel in speaking to my Leddy, that canna weel bide to be contradickit, (as I ken nobody likes it, if they could ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) - With his Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore
... "whether I shall ever lead her from the altar to the Hall, or whether—I shall bide alone ...
— The Brethren • H. Rider Haggard
... and labour would be sufficient to render the land permanently habitable: but on an uncertain tenure this remedy was not likely to be applied, and therefore the sovereignty of art's dominion remained unasserted there. The incursions of the savage, who is learning to "bide his time" on the Darling, are greatly encouraged by the hardships of the colonists when water is scarce; and I was shown where no less than 800 head of fat bullocks had been run together by them when water was too abundant. Then horses cannot travel, and cattle stick ...
— Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia • Thomas Mitchell


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