abeyant

Example Sentences

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Touring the pits with Ahlum was like visiting the abeyant ghosts of my childhood.

From New York Times

We stood, abeyant, ready to receive what shock fate should administer.

From Literature

Peerages of Ireland, extinct and abeyant, alphabetically, according to Titles.

From Project Gutenberg

The wild romanticist, the lover of the strange and the lurid and the grotesque who created the "Symphonic Fantastique," never, perhaps, became entirely abeyant.

From Project Gutenberg

He was what was called at Hintock "a solid-going fellow;" he maintained his abeyant mood, not from want of reciprocity, but from a taciturn hesitancy, taught by life as he knew it.

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