tenanting
Example Sentences
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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 Thomas Stevens
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 Herman Melville
One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville
As a rule, the motive for the reappearance on earth of a spirit lately tenanting a mortal body, is found in some neglected duty.
From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes
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 Herman Melville
