have its seat in

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Perhaps, after all, it is a question of the age-old longing for immortality, and therefore it must have its seat in a place higher than this world of death.

From The Strength of the Pines by Marshall, Edison

V. be situated, be situate; lie, have its seat in.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

The organ, however, which causes the persistence of this sensation must have its seat in the head, since otherwise the axis of apparent rotation could not assume the same motion as the head.

From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst

They therefore can no longer be attributed to radiant matter, and we are led to think that the energy brought into play in this phenomenon must have its seat in the light-bearing ether itself.

From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien

According to the Papuans the soul, which they imagine to have its seat in the blood, continues to exist at the bottom of the sea, and every one who dies goes thither.

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Frazer, James George, Sir