tenanting

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

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

The day may arrive perhaps when, having embanked the Thames, we shall follow suit to the Seine and the Rhine, by tenanting it with cheap baths for the many.

From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Davies, Charles Maurice