abider

A dozen years ago, she started an “abider” program for Life Choice Hospice in Dresher, encouraging volunteers to sit in nursing homes with dying people who were all alone.

Thus, “Bad for the rider, good for the abider,” expressed truths obvious enough to those who came this way a hundred years ago; and “There is good land where there is foul way” would have said much for the excellence of Kent, where all the ways were foul.

O foster-son, thy foster-brother hath sung well for a wood abider; but we are deeming that his singing shall be but as a starling to a throstle matched against thy new-come guest.