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

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

We are agreed to receive into these dales no Judge who is not a countryman and indweller, or who hath bought his place.

From Wilhelm Tell by Schiller, Friedrich

Agnes Finnie, an indweller in the Potter-row, Edinburgh, was indicted before a judge and a jury, on twenty articles of indictment, charging her with witchcraft and sorcery.

From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by Grant, James, archaeologist