Citations:abide

English citations of abide

• 1984, Leonard Cohen (lyrics and music), “If it Be Your Will”:

  If it be your will / That I speak no more / And my voice be still / As it was before / I will speak no more / I shall abide until / I am spoken for / If it be your will

• 2015, Graydon Saunders, A Succession of Bad Days:

  The oath isn’t a promise to abide the law of your active thought and will, which is what all the clerk’s oaths and minor office oaths say.