dwelt

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When I was 12 my grandmother brought a singing teacher to hear me sing ‘I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls.’

From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2015

For example, the suitor in “Eveline” takes the title character, a shop girl, to see the opera “The Bohemian Girl,” which features the aria “I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls.”

From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2014

I thought I loved you—that in all my heart Dwelt not a thought that wrong'd you.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various

Yet beneath his hardened manner Dwelt a gentle spirit calmly; It was only to the wicked, To the evil and the sinful, That his terror was revealéd.

From A Leaf from the Old Forest by Cossar, John D.

I did let a young fellow once sing, "I Dreamt that I Dwelt in Marble Halls"; but I told him never to repeat it.

From My New Curate by Sheehan, Patrick Augustine