tenanting

Example Sentences

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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

I have part of it on lease; the farmer now tenanting the premises found the whole more than he wanted, and the owner allowed me to keep what rooms I chose. 

From A Changed Man; and other tales by Hardy, Thomas

In London, Stevenson appeared now and again at the Savile Club, then tenanting a rather gloomy little house in Savile Row.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Lang, Andrew

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

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

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 Dent, Clinton Thomas