Remained behind

Usage examples of stayed.

I did not leave her for a moment, and in the morning, feeling quite recovered, her gratitude finished what my love had begun twenty-six years before, and our amorous commerce lasted while I stayed at Berlin.

I accosted her, apologizing for not having stayed to breakfast, but she said I had done quite right, adding that if I had not chosen a country house she hoped I would take one her husband would probably mention to me that evening.

After coffee had been served, we went into another parlour and stayed there till night came on.

During my sleep the divine Horosmadis came down from the sun and stayed with me till I awoke.

As long as I stayed at Rome the nine piastres a month came in regularly, but after my departure he returned to Rome, went to another convent, and died there suddenly thirteen or fourteen years ago.

Whenever I visited Padua, to complete my study of the law, I stayed at the house of the kind doctor, but I was always grieved at seeing near Bettina the brute to whom she was engaged, and who did not appear to me deserving of such a wife.

It did not make the slightest impression on me, and I stayed a fortnight longer in Turin without its causing me the slightest annoyance.

Nearly everyone went, and those who stayed only did so because lodgings were not to be had at Spa.

Lost in these thoughts which enhanced the pleasure of any tears, I should have stayed for a long tune in the garden if Dubois had not come out to look for me.

Next day I stayed out till after midnight, and the cook told me that the wedded couple had made a good supper and had gone to bed.

I wished to regain what I had lost, so I stayed to supper, and afterwards, with better luck, won back my money.

While I stayed with him he shewed me a number of letters from Morgagni and Pontedera, a professor of botany, a science of which Haller had an extensive knowledge.

I have come too late, but if I had not stayed at Genoa I should not have been more fortunate.

We should have stayed at Bale some time, if it had not been for an incident which made me hasten our departure.

This monk had stayed at home far from the world, or else he would not have asked me such a question.