Occupants

Examples

• He rose with the rest, and surveyed the occupants of the boxes grandly with his opera-glass. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The names of the occupants were painted at the bottom on the wall, but there was no such name as the Franco-Midland Hardware Company, Limited. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• He then knocked at the doors of two other similar rooms, and introduced me to their occupants, by name Drummle and Startop. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• A strange place was this humble kitchen for such occupants! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I divined that my coming had stopped conversation in the room, and that its other occupants were looking at me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• In these the occupants were fully secure from the shells of the navy, which were dropped into the city night and dav without intermission. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The other occupants of the room, five in number, were all females, and they were still sleeping, piled high with a motley array of silks and furs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Charles I, who was probably one of the meanest and most treacherous occupants the English throne has ever known, was frightened by the London crowds. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The occupants of the dining-room listened too, and not merely now to the flow of the mill-stream. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The Moffats were very fashionable, and simple Meg was rather daunted, at first, by the splendor of the house and the elegance of its occupants. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The former occupants of the kitchen now withdrew into the parlour. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The present occupants of Mars Saba, about seventy in number, are all hermits. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Then, having inquired as to the occupants of the Hall, you will come back to me and report. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

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