tenanting
Example Sentences
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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
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
The lawyer or artist tenanting its chambers, whether in the new building or the old, when asked where he was to be found, invariably replied,—At the Apostles'.
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
