"Staid" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... prettiest dancing girls that ever could be found,— Them girls' feet was like rubber balls and they never staid ...
— Cowboy Songs - and Other Frontier Ballads • Various
... the main road, and to Hamilton's surprise he found the two staid gentlemen regarding it when the party came up. They were regarding it from a high bank behind the wall—a bank which commanded a view of the road. One of them observed the camera and said something in a low tone to the other; then the speaker walked down ...
— Bones in London • Edgar Wallace
... them bow the knee to Robespierre. Vivier has 'scap'd me. Curse his coward heart— This fate-fraught tube of Justice in my hand, I rush'd into the hall. He mark'd mine eye, That beam'd its patriot anger, and flash'd full With death-denouncing meaning. 'Mid the throng He mingled. I pursued—but staid my hand, Lest haply I might shed ...
— Literary Remains (1) • Coleridge
... in battle slept out of doors Many a frozen night, and merrily Answered staid drinkers, good bedmen, and all bores: "At Mrs. Greenland's Hawthorn Bush," said he, "I slept." None knew which bush. Above the town, Beyond "The Drover," a hundred spot the down In Wiltshire. And where now at last he sleeps More sound ...
— Last Poems • Edward Thomas
... nobler sons of Temperance and Truth! I see attendant Ariels circling there, Light-hearted Innocence, and Prudence fair, Sweet Chastity, young Hope, and Reason bright, And modest Love, in heaven's own hues bedight, Staid Diligence, and Health, and holy Grace, And gentle Happiness with smiling face,— All, all are there; and Sorrow speeds away, And Melancholy flees the sons of day; Dull Care is gladden'd with reflected light, And wounded Sin flies sickening at ...
— My Life as an Author • Martin Farquhar Tupper
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