Dwellers

Examples

• When the lake dwellers sowed their little patches of wheat in Switzerland, they were already following the immemorial practice of mankind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Our empty habitations remained, but the dwellers were gathered to the shades of the tomb. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• We have some idea how the ancients looked and felt and wrote; the abundant evidence takes us back to the cave-dwellers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The great apes are forest dwellers; their walking even now is incidental; they are at their happiest among trees. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The lake-dwellers, on the other hand, had, in addition to the dog, which was of a medium-sized breed, oxen, goats, and sheep. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And we alone--we three-- alone--alone--sole dwellers on the sea and on the earth, we three must perish! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Dwellers in cold climates must constantly eat large quantities of fatty foods if they are to keep their bodies warm and survive the extreme cold. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He had that sense of peace, and of being lightened of a weight of care, which country quiet awakens in the breasts of dwellers in towns. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The Swiss pile-dwellers, on the contrary, seem to have lived in practically self-contained villages. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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