Usage of "sate still"

Encara no tenim significats per a "sate still".

Ús de sate still en anglès

Molly sate still without speaking, too tired to do more than wait. 
 Wives and Daughters 

Then she paused and sate still for a minute or two, recalling the past. 
 Wives and Daughters 

Thus said Merlin, and afterwards he sate still, as though he would from the world depart. 
 Layamon's Brut 

Nicias, poor honest man, might just as well have sate still; his speaking did but little good. 
 Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 

She walked boldly up under the bush, and the bird, seeing she had no bad purpose, sate still and sung on. 
 Short Studies on Great Subjects 

He sate still a moment, looking at the busy work going on before him, and then at his own half-completed drainage. 
 Wives and Daughters 

So she went up to the top of the hill; and there they sate still a minute or two, enjoying the view, without much speaking. 
 Wives and Daughters 

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Significats de sate still en anglès