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

"What joy?" quoth the Khwajah's son, "and indeed this city is a ruinous heap nor is there indweller or habitant or any to attest God's Unity."

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

They were never happy except when they went up to the palisades, struck upon them with their lath-blades, and when some orderly indweller looked over atop, ran away laughing.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII by Wilson, John Mackay

Death had his work to do at Lawford as elsewhere, and the sleepy little town was always waking up to the fact that some indweller had passed away.

From Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family by Fenn, George Manville

And again, why should the mind want anyone to look like a maker, an indweller, an ingeniuer—to use a word of Shakespeare's invention?

From There & Back by MacDonald, George