staying
/ˈsteɪ.ɪŋ/ noun A1- A stay or visit.
Plural stayings
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At the end of a quarter of an hour a faltering footstep was heard, and Villefort appeared at the door of the apartment where d’Avrigny and Morrel had been staying, one absorbed in meditation, the other in grief.
A Fowler observed her staying so long in one spot, and having well bird-limed his reeds, caught her.
I have not time for anybody’s affairs but my own and those of my honorable guests; but I make an agreement with the man who pastes up the papers, and he brings them to me as he would the playbills, that in case any person staying at my hotel should like to witness an execution, he may obtain every requisite information concerning the time and place etc.”
Danglars his intention of only staying a year in Paris, during which time he proposed to spend six millions.
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