tenanting
Example Sentences
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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
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 Clinton Thomas Dent
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
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
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 Andrew Lang
