tenanting
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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
Another group of Hypozoa is that termed Gregarinida, a group made up of very lowly parasites, such as are often found tenanting the intestines of insects as well as those of higher animals.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various
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
I have part of it on lease; the farmer now tenanting the premises found the whole more than he wanted, and the owner allowed me to keep what rooms I chose.
From A Changed Man; and other tales by Thomas Hardy
The Bali-dagh, or “Honey Mount,” in the plain of Troy, is so called on account of the numerous wild bees tenanting the caves in its precipitous rocks to the south.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
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