abode

• From the window of her back room also, directly under her eye, a far more exquisite prospect presented itself than any Barley Wood could boast; Leigh Woods, St. Vincent's Rocks, Clifton Down, and, to crown the whole, the winding Avon, with the continually shifting commerce of Bristol; and we left her with the impression that the change in her abode was a great accession to her happiness. —  Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
• That day the preparations began, and soon his abode was a wonder of comfort. —  Army Life in a Black Regiment
• In the later stages of culture this abode is a Paradise on some more or less imaginary mountain-top, or effectually cut off from men by the magical tempests of the immeasurable main, or by the supreme and silent heights of heaven. —  The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology
• The ventilation of my abode was all one could wish for, and as during the night I lay wrapped up in my blanket under the sheltering roof, I could admire through the disconnected portions of the walls the brilliancy of the star-studded heaven above. —  In the Forbidden Land
• I should be indeed sorry if he has come to grief--and come to grief he probably has, for he was no mere boy to take his University course in instalments After a little further conversation, and agreeing to meet again the next night at Zuchin's, since his abode was the most central point for us all, we began to disperse. —  Youth

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