tenanting

Example Sentences

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Now again he may be found at times tenanting huts, or the forms of shelter which are supposed to represent them.

From Above the Snow Line by Dent, Clinton Thomas

I lost myself in conjectures as to what sort of people might be tenanting that lonely edifice, and whether they knew any thing about us.

From Redburn. His First Voyage by Melville, Herman

Another group of Hypozoa is that termed Gregarinida, a group made up of very lowly parasites, such as are often found tenanting the intestines of insects as well as those of higher animals.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various

Here they are not ignored, because, whatever the cause or causes of the phenomena, they would buttress, if they did not originate, the savage belief in spirits tenanting inanimate matter, whence came Fetishism.

From The Making of Religion by Lang, Andrew

It was very common— sometimes three or four tenanting a single tree, clinging as usual to the branches.

From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Bates, Henry Walter