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«Next door, there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.»
«Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? Is it right to be watching strangers in a play in this strangest of theatres?»
Author: Elizabeth Bishop (Poet, Writer) | Keywords: stayed
«One wore blue and one wore grey As they marched along the way A fife and drum began to play All on a beautiful morning One was gentle, one was kind One was gentle, one was kind One came home, one stayed behind A cannonball don't pay no mind A canno»
«Most of the time I played by myself. Even then I was a loner, and I have stayed a loner all my life. [It] can make a man seem a little distant or aloof -- but it has helped pull me through some tight spots and hard times.»
«Listen, lad. I built this kingdom up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was swamp. Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one... stayed up! And that's what you're gonna get, lad: the strongest castle in these islands.»
«Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.»
«So David stayed his servants with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul. But Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: stayed
«So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: brook, Left Behind, six hundred, stayed
«Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by Enrogel; for they might not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and they went and told king David.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Ahimaaz, Jonathan, stayed, wench, wenches
«So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Macedonia, ministered, stayed

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