Dwelling

Examples

• The latter place was a large, comfortable dwelling, beautifully situated among woods about a mile to the northeast of Chesterfield. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Silence reigned in this dwelling. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The spirit of elder days found a dwelling here, and we delighted to trace its footsteps. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• But it took off her thoughts from too impatiently dwelling upon her desire to have all explained to Mr. Thornton. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• They talked about art in a merely sensuous way, dwelling on outside effects, instead of allowing themselves to learn what it has to teach. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• In what way could it possibly be the interest of the inhabitants of that dwelling to serve me? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• In another hour all the dwelling-house, and all the pensionnat, were dark and hushed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• This central block is made up of the dwelling-rooms, with the kitchen behind and our bedroom above. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I revolved many projects; but that on which I finally fixed was, to enter the dwelling when the blind old man should be alone. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• You were dwelling upon the sadness and horror and useless waste of life. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• What may not the forces, never before united, of liberty and peace achieve in this dwelling of man? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The front was fortunately intact, but he has arranged the interior as a dwelling-house. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Why, it was but now that you were dwelling in the advantages of a monotony of two. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• So the printer and his good wife moved to the Zum Jungen, which was more like a castle than a tradesman’s dwelling-house. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• No, answered Dorothea; Mr. Casaubon has always avoided dwelling on his own honorable actions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Their habits and their dwellings should correspond to their education. Plato. The Republic.
• The second book begins with an account of different philosophic al views concerning the origin of matter, and a discussion of the earliest dwellings of man. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Their dwellings are made of bark, skins and mattings of their own making, stretched on poles fixed in the ground. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Many relics of the inhabitants have been found in these cliff dwellings, although we cannot tell how they lived, for the region is now rainless and therefore destitute of food plants. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Joe's forge adjoined our house, which was a wooden house, as many of the dwellings in our country were,--most of them, at that time. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Probably these Neolithic Swiss pile dwellings did not shelter the largest communities that existed in those days. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Near at hand came the long rows of dwellings, approaching curved up the hill-slope, in straight lines along the brow of the hill. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Raymond had never visited the dwellings of want, and the scene that now presented itself struck him to the heart. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Some of these cliff dwellings may still be seen in the valleys of the Rio Grande and the Rio Colorado and its tributaries. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• A rich man there lived alone in one of the immense mansions which were formerly both dwellings and warehouses. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The filters used in ordinary dwellings are of stone, asbestos, or charcoal. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The outhouse was the simplest of dwellings, wooden-walled, shingle-roofed, one window beside the door and one on the farther side. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Instead of bothering with bolts and bars for their dwellings, the red Martians simply run them up out of harm's way during the night. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• While many of their homes were small single-family houses, there were also a number of large two and three-story dwellings with many rooms in which different families lived. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• And their dwellings must be such as will shield them against the cold of winter and the heat of summer. Plato. The Republic.

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