tenanting

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I have three strong reasons: First, as I told you, it is the only thing that will cleanse your heart of bitterness and leave it free for the tenanting of a great and holy love.

From The Harvester by Stratton-Porter, Gene

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

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

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

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