indweller

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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

It required more than one repetition of the blows to rouse an indweller, but finally a window was enough raised to permit the thrusting out of a becapped head.

From Janice Meredith by Ford, Paul Leicester

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

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