tenanting

Example Sentences

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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

Here they are not ignored, because, whatever the cause or causes of the phenomena, they would buttress, if they did not originate, the savage belief in spirits tenanting inanimate matter, whence came Fetishism.

From The Making of Religion by Lang, Andrew

As a rule, the motive for the reappearance on earth of a spirit lately tenanting a mortal body, is found in some neglected duty.

From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Sikes, Wirt

The lawyer or artist tenanting its chambers, whether in the new building or the old, when asked where he was to be found, invariably replied,—At the Apostles'.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

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

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