indweller
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Only the bodies of which this eternal, imperishable, incomprehensible Self is the indweller, are said to have an end.
From Time Magazine Archive
It required more than one repetition of the blows to rouse an indweller, but finally a window was enough raised to permit the thrusting out of a becapped head.
From Janice Meredith by Paul Leicester Ford
Agnes Finnie, an indweller in the Potter-row, Edinburgh, was indicted before a judge and a jury, on twenty articles of indictment, charging her with witchcraft and sorcery.
From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by James Grant
Azzageddi aside, then, my lord, and also, for the nonce, the mysterious indweller, I come now to treat of myself as a lunatic.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
"If I speak with you calmly, Ralph, it is because you are the indweller of my house, and because I have a pledge to my brother in your behalf."
From Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by William Gilmore Simms
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