Some of us must stay here, and take care of the sick."
He stays! Wardour, I am sorry I have thrown against you."
The Frozen Deep
"If I were going to stay here and act as landlord," he added presently, with still more eagerness--"if I were careless about what I've done--what I've been the cause of, you would have some excuse, Adam, for going away and encouraging others to go.
"But there's that sweet woman--that Dinah Morris," Arthur said, pursuing his own thoughts and not knowing what had been the sense of Adam's words, "she says she shall stay with her to the very last moment--till she goes; and the poor thing clings to her as if she found some comfort in her.
Adam Bede
When he returned, he told her that he would have to
stay overnight there, but she could go on home.
My Antonia
So the Italian went away saying rude things and the monkey
stayed with Doctor Dolittle and had a good home.
Story of Doctor Dolittle
She being with child and in her seventh month, Juno brought the child to birth though there was a month still wanting, but she stayed the offspring of Alcmena, and kept back the Ilithuiae.
On this he sent the other princes away, save only the two sons of Atreus and Ulysses, Nestor, Idomeneus, and the knight Phoenix, who stayed behind and tried to comfort him in the bitterness of his sorrow: but he would not be comforted till he should have flung himself into the jaws of battle, and he fetched sigh on sigh, thinking ever of Patroclus.
Iliad
With all this the Irishman decided to stay; but that night there were three at him for every one that was there the two nights before, and it looked very unlikely that he would be alive in the morning after all that he got.
'Come in,' said the old man, 'and stay with me all night.
Yellow Fairy Book
"You are blind now," he said, "so I will stay with you always."
"I will stay with you always," said the Swallow, and he slept at the Prince's feet.
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Edna
stayed outside, awaiting her husband's return.
Awakening and Selected Short Stories
The communication excited many professions of concern; and enough was said of wishing them to
stay at least till the following day to work on Jane; and till the morrow their going was deferred.
Pride and Prejudice
They were given to you by a lady who
stayed here not so long ago, now, weren't they?"
Quest of the Golden Girl