tenanting
Example Sentences
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The day may arrive perhaps when, having embanked the Thames, we shall follow suit to the Seine and the Rhine, by tenanting it with cheap baths for the many.
From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Charles Maurice Davies
Now again he may be found at times tenanting huts, or the forms of shelter which are supposed to represent them.
From Above the Snow Line by Clinton Thomas Dent
Peace and tranquillity being thus established on a firm basis, the several families tenanting our roof settle themselves snugly down.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran by Thomas Stevens
While tenanting these clay abodes, This vizier sometimes gladly sought The solitude that favours thought; Whereas, the hermit, in his cot, Had longings for a vizier's lot.'
From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Elizur Wright
One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville
