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 Gene Stratton-Porter
In London, Stevenson appeared now and again at the Savile Club, then tenanting a rather gloomy little house in Savile Row.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Andrew Lang
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 Elizur Wright
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 Charles Maurice Davies
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
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