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Stable

adjective

1.

Resistant to change of position or condition. "A stable peace" , "A stable relationship" , "Stable prices"

2.

Firm and dependable; subject to little fluctuation.

3.

Not taking part readily in chemical change.

4.

Maintaining equilibrium.

5.

Showing little if any change. Synonyms: static, unchanging.

noun

1.

A farm building for housing horses or other livestock. Synonyms: horse barn, stalls.

verb

(past & past part. stabled; pres. part. stabling)

1.

Shelter in a stable.

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"Stable" Quotes from Famous Books

... softly out of the house, and ran across and down the road to the tavern. Dexter Beers, the landlord, was just going around the wide sweep of drive to the stable with a meal-sack over his shoulder. No one else was in sight; it was so cold there were no loafers about. Madelon ran after him, and overtook him before he reached the ...

— Madelon - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... fever was prevailing in the village, and his want of sleep, his exhaustion, and his misery, made him apt to take it. The grave was not difficult to reopen. A fresh fall of snow had again made all things white and smooth; Rab once more looked on, and slunk home to the stable. ...

— The Junior Classics Volume 8 - Animal and Nature Stories • Selected and arranged by William Patten

... and likely to surprise us more in the end. Everything has been found untenable. Theories and systems are shaken by the great upheaval. Civilization has become a question instead of a postulate. All human thought is undergoing a process of retrospection, drawn by a desire to find a new and stable beginning. Take down Spencer and Comte or Lecky and Kidd from your bookshelf and try to settle down to a contented contemplation of the sociological tenets of the past. You will fail, for you will feel that ...

— Mountain Meditations - and some subjects of the day and the war • L. Lind-af-Hageby

... but wearing on his head a flat blue cap, widening out from brim to crown, with a yellow band round the forehead—the watering cap of a Light Dragoon. He walked very erect, though he limped slightly with one leg; and over one shoulder he carried a clean white stable-rubber, neatly folded, with a stable-halter tied across it. Hanging on to his hand on one side was a little boy of about nine years old with great brown eyes and glossy black hair, dressed in a very short little brown jacket with ...

— The Drummer's Coat • J. W. Fortescue

... perfect bower of giant trees. Ivy and creepers of all sorts clung to its stones and crept up its walls, long tendrils of vivid green. The drive swept round a beautifully kept lawn and vanished through a stone gateway leading into the stable-yard. It was only a pretence at a garden in front. Uncle John always held that the open space which lay at the back of the house and on to which the drawing-room windows opened was the real thing. There, was more green grass, which centuries of care and weeding and rolling had transformed ...

— To Love • Margaret Peterson

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