tenanting

Example Sentences

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One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Melville, Herman

I lost myself in conjectures as to what sort of people might be tenanting that lonely edifice, and whether they knew any thing about us.

From Redburn. His First Voyage by Melville, Herman

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 Melville, Herman

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 Lang, Andrew

The pieces by which this complicated machine is framed, are joined together in various places by scarfing, rabbeting, tenanting, and scoring.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir