"Abeyance" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Addison's was verified, for, after the first year, the act was allowed to fall into abeyance, and the scribblers raised their heads once more, and endeavored, by extra diligence and industry, to make up for their past discomfiture ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, Issue 2, February, 1864 • Various
... Waterman's petition in abeyance until the point you mention is in the record," said Judge Carter. "Counsel, ...
— The Fourth R • George Oliver Smith
... dramatic literature are pedantically followed, while the "pity and terror" they were made to illustrate are unawakened; the programme of republican government is lucidly announced, its watchwords adopted, its philosophy expounded, while its spirit and realization continue in abeyance: and thus everywhere we find a singular disproportion between formula and fact, profession and practice, specific knowledge and its application. The citizen of the world finds no armory like that which the institutions, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume V, Number 29, March, 1860 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... walked along the rough lane with a buoyant step, a half smile of innocent, kindly triumph played about her mouth. She was delighting beforehand in the anticipated success of her persuasive power, and for the time her painful anxiety about Mr. Tryan's health was thrown into abeyance. But she had not gone far along the lane before she heard the sound of a horse advancing at a walking pace behind her. Without looking back, she turned aside to make way for it between the ruts, and did not notice that for a moment it had stopped, and had then ...
— Scenes of Clerical Life • George Eliot
... the scheme in abeyance, until I ask Uncle Mitchell's advice. I shall call at his office, and request him to ...
— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson
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