tenanting

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The Bali-dagh, or “Honey Mount,” in the plain of Troy, is so called on account of the numerous wild bees tenanting the caves in its precipitous rocks to the south.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various

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

Of the brethren, only those tenanting the cemetery are left.

From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by Ainsworth, William Harrison

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

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