tenanting

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While tenanting these clay abodes, This vizier sometimes gladly sought The solitude that favours thought; Whereas, the hermit, in his cot, Had longings for a vizier's lot.'

From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Wright, Elizur

One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Melville, Herman

Peace and tranquillity being thus established on a firm basis, the several families tenanting our roof settle themselves snugly down.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran by Stevens, Thomas

He is lightly, and, as it were, airily and but grazingly seated in, or rather flittingly tenanting an old-fashioned chair of Malacca.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

I have part of it on lease; the farmer now tenanting the premises found the whole more than he wanted, and the owner allowed me to keep what rooms I chose. 

From A Changed Man; and other tales by Hardy, Thomas