indweller

Example Sentences

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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

"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 Simms, William Gilmore

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

Wae's me for Ninian Halliburton, merchant and indweller in Dumfries, he'll never see hilt or hair o' his guid siller gin that wee lassie be lost.

From The Black Douglas by Richards, Frank

Philosopher," said Media, "what with Azzageddi, and the mysterious indweller you darkly hint of, I marvel not that you are puzzled to decide upon your identity.

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