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1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III ii. ii. 124 Towards Ludlow then, for we will not stay behinde. View more context for this quotation

1622 J. Taylor Shilling B 5 Whilst all the Drawers must stay vp and waite Vpon these fellowes be it ne're so late.

1664 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 236 My fathar stais so long a wae.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 120. ¶14 In Winter..she grows more assiduous in her Attendance, and stays away but half the Time.

1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess Prol. 9 We seven stay'd at Christmas up to read.

1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 341 They might come if they liked, and they might stay away if they liked.

1883 J. Brinsley-Richards Seven Years at Eton x. 98 Some~times Blazes had a lazy fit, and put himself on the sick list for a day. This was called ‘stay-out’, for the reason that one had to stay in.

1883 J. Brinsley-Richards Seven Years at Eton x. 98 One day it happened that I was ‘staying out’ on the same day as Blazes.

1884 J. Hay Bread-winners xi. 172 I am so glad you resolved to stay over.

1885 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ Valerie's Fate vi I must go with you. I feel as if I could not bear to stay behind!

1898 R. Kipling Day's Work 198 She had ‘stayed down three hot weathers’, as the saying is, because her brother..could not afford the expense of her keep at even a cheap hill-station.

1901 Athenæum 27 July 121/1 The habit of frequent ‘staying out,’ Etonian for staying in, on the score of feeble health.

1904 E. H. Coleridge Life & Corr. Ld. Coleridge I. iv. 58 Friends..who wrote to him during the vacations and when he was obliged to ‘stay down’, owing to prolonged ill-health.

1911 A. Plummer Churches in Brit. before A.D. 1000 I. iv. 122 Wilfrid made the grave mistake of staying on in Gaul.

1981 E. A. Taylor Cable Car Murder (1983) xviii. 130 We had a satisfying visit. I stayed over, and she took me to the train the next morning.