Sentence:  Two other people in time shared Mijbil 's love : `` it remained around us three that his orb revolved when he <WSD>was</WSD> not away in his own imponderable world of wave and water ; we were his Trinity , and he behaved towards us with a mixture of trust and abuse , passion and irritation . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)