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[in-dwel] / ɪnˈdwɛl /


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Soon after this Therem left his Domain, saying that he wished to indwell at Rotherer Fastness for a time, and he did not return to Stok until a year had passed.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

It is in, and with, and through the Son, and by the Spirit, that the Father comes to indwell.

From Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer

Alack-a-day when I did leave Those gilded halls where beauty did indwell.

From 'A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts by Spokeshave (AKA Old Fogy)

Not more surely had the Shechinah dwelt in the tabernacle of old, than did it indwell His nature, though too thickly shrouded to be seen by ordinary and casual eyes.

From Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer

I marked her ruined hues, Her custom-straitened views, And asked, "Can there indwell    My Amabel?"

From Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy

Within 10 hours, he was in the ER, having an indwelling catheter placed because he could not empty his bladder.

From Seattle Times May 1, 2013

It was a spiritual force once, but the indwelling spirit will have to be restated if it is to calm the waters again, and probably restated in a non-Christian form.''

From Time Magazine Archive

They staked their faith on "the indwelling of God in man," declared that modern scientific discoveries are not antagonistic with Jewish doctrine, saluted Christianity and Islam as daughter religions of Judaism.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Call's music is not retrograde or nostalgic, but it does hearken heavily to the indwelling mysteries that Dylan and the Band and Van Morrison also heard.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Cherangani Hills appeared in the distance, a line of mountains on the edge of the Rift, humpy and green, crushed under an indwelling sweep of rain clouds.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

“I was brought up in the Handdara, and indwelt two years at Rotherer Fastness. In Kerm Land most people of the Inner Hearths are Handdarata.”

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

He taught them that they were indwelt by the Holy Spirit.

From Have We No Rights? A frank discussion of the "rights" of missionaries by Mabel Williamson

The Church, each member of which is indwelt by the Holy Spirit, and each member of which feels his responsibility to live and witness for the One who means all in all to him!

From Have We No Rights? A frank discussion of the "rights" of missionaries by Mabel Williamson

This ideal of personality, divinely indwelt, created a sense of personal duty, even in opposition to all men.

From Quaker Hill A Sociological Study by Warren H. (Warren Hugh) Wilson

The word “spirit” seems to refer to their human faculty, though of course as indwelt and possessed by the Divine Spirit.

From The Prayers of St. Paul by W. H. Griffith (William Henry Griffith) Thomas




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