tenanting

Example Sentences

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One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Melville, Herman

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 Stevens, Thomas

He is lightly, and, as it were, airily and but grazingly seated in, or rather flittingly tenanting an old-fashioned chair of Malacca.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

It was very common— sometimes three or four tenanting a single tree, clinging as usual to the branches.

From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Bates, Henry Walter

I lost myself in conjectures as to what sort of people might be tenanting that lonely edifice, and whether they knew any thing about us.

From Redburn. His First Voyage by Melville, Herman