How To Use Dwell In A Sentence

  • A few fields have the remains of small sunken stone dwellings, intimate as those at Skara Brae.
  • Although in traditional practices of visualization, eidetic images of a divinity or his paradisal dwelling were constructed in the mind, these visions were not visible to the eyes.
  • No doubt some of these are metrosexuals, those city-dwelling gents with more than enough disposable income to spend on clothes, restaurants, the latest gadgets, exotic holidays and eyebrow waxing.
  • So of course city-dwellers voted for someone who promised more government welfare.
  • Shyness, performance anxiety seemed never to have dwelled in him.
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  • And she, warm with what Dick had just told of him, pleasured at the goodly sight of him, dwelling with her eyes on the light, high poise of head, the careless, sun-sanded hair, and the lightness, almost debonaireness, of his carriage despite his weight of body and breadth of shoulders. CHAPTER XXIII
  • Holding the chain railing, we followed our leader and had up-close encounters with yellow tails, sergeant majors, blue tang, trumpet fish, and other reef dwellers.
  • I feel pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self. Chapter 1
  • Wind energy and solar power could be harnessed to heat the dwellings and provide enough energy for daily needs.
  • How wise, too, is the sandwort in its choice of a dwelling-place! The Foot-path Way
  • Blest are they that dwell within thy house, they praise thy name evermore. Times, Sunday Times
  • The calculation of Eq. 32 assumes that there is no correlation between the dwells at very long dwell times.
  • Therefore, five 11m long cantilevers were created to allow the total number of dwellings to reach 100 while keeping to the planners’ preferred footprint.
  • While we can credit him for some degree of intellectual honesty in confronting the hypocrisies and irrationalities that govern so much of public life, religious and non-religious, Christopher Hitchens, in the end, could not offer a vision of true humanness because he dwelled in the cynical faculties of the mind without being adequately informed by the positive wisdom of the heart. Kabir Helminski: Christopher Hitchens is "Not Great"
  • The process ends with faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ, spiritual rebirth and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
  • Through the lane down which the Dweller had passed we went as quickly as we could, coming at last to the space where the coria waited. The Moon Pool
  • The huddle of poor dwellings, too small to be named a village, clings plastered like martens' nests against rocks, high above a green river.
  • To write about the Donner Party, one has to address this aspect of the tale; but I haven't dwelled on it in Snow Mountain James Houston discusses Bird of Another Heaven
  • A subcategory of this genre of books is composed of in-depth narrative accounts of the experiences of individual students applying to Ivy League colleges, their every emotional nuance dwelled on in luxuriant detail. Confessions of a Prep School College Counselor
  • A typical exchange of views between city-dwellers: nothing to get fazed about. COMPULSION
  • The word yurt is originally from the Turkic word meaning "dwelling place" in the sense of "homeland"; the term came to be used in reference to the physical tent-like structures only in other languages. Yurts
  • With the hippogryph trailing her, Tyrande led Broll to the nearest of the dwellings. WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE
  • Their songs were born to dwell in long-lost cabarets and quaint bars that fall just short of seediness.
  • Just then, as hope began to relume my soul, Mr. Moodwell approached Atkins, saying, Autobiography of a female slave,
  • People like them will never be rural dwellers, just townees with a house in the country.
  • Indeed, though most Americans will embrace some type of solemn memorial today, there is resistance to dwelling on the horrifying tragedies of a year ago.
  • Don Treadwell, what goes through his mind when that call crackles across the headset. The Seattle Times
  • Just as the crooked mass of shiny-leafed buttonbush, and even the swamp dwelling mayapple - its umbrella-like leaves shading sweet yellow fruit - need fire's fertilizing hand, so too does the wildlife.
  • And it took them three years to construct their own crannog, a timber dwelling built on stilts over the water, which links the way of life of people in 600BC with ours today.
  • And, as always, to Mom and Dad and my family and friends for the unwavering support, and to Audrey, James, and Jonathan for putting up with my “spacey” moments and allowing me time to dwell in make-believe lands. Darkness Becomes Her
  • The jak trees (artocarpus incisa), near of kin to the bread-fruit, and the durion, flourish round all the dwellings. The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
  • Unknown to the vast majority of urban-dwelling Scots, this magnificent beast is the subject of one of the most bitter controversies ever to affect wildlife in this country.
  • The term perichoresis means 'mutually inhering' or 'mutually indwelling'; and as the Apostle John wrote, God is love. Archive 2006-12-01
  • The top selling non-fiction book Blink is coining mucho bling for Malcolm Gladwell, yet in 1997 Gladwell wrote a New Yorker article called "The Sports Taboo: Why blacks are like boys and whites are like girls," which made exactly the same argument as Larry Summers made about what is innately different in the capabilities of males and females -- that men have a larger standard deviation on many traits, so there are more men at the top and bottom of the bell curves. Archive 2005-02-27
  • The sacerdotal role of the Christian laity, whose spiritual sacrifice and virtuous life makes a dwelling place for the Holy Spirit, is placed in complete opposition to the formal procedures of the Roman clergy.
  • Such men are the dwellers in the halls of Circean senses; they can appreciate only the sensuous. The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
  • A near friend is better than a far-dwelling kinsman. 
  • The limitation period is for six years from the date on which the dwelling was completed.
  • This lithograph by Petre shows the dwellings to be more substantial dwellings than the whares the settlers would have actually used.
  • As if Ian Hamilton Finlay were not to be remembered here, he appears, in the form of a reference to his home, a little country estate which he filled with literary sculpture of his devisal, much as Simon Cutts has decorated his quaint Irish dwelling, Coracle, and outbuildings with words, turning edifice into literature. Dbqp: visualizing poetics
  • I. iii.156 (129,8) [dwell in my necessity] To _dwell_ seems in this place to mean the same as to _continue_. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
  • During the evening meal at his family dwelling, Jonas hesitatingly asks his parents if they love him.
  • Conflict transformation avoids allocating blame or dwelling on the past, no matter how painful, in order to try to achieve shared futures.
  • Jesse Johnson said his father, known to friends and family as R.J., had lived through a riot at the penitentiary in 1993 and knew the danger of his job but never dwelled on it. S.D. inmates accused of killing guard for uniform
  • Some find themselves utterly transformed by their longing for each other, and they dwell in a sort of blissful paradox, imprisoned, yet unmoored from the structure of their outside lives, so that their mutual captivity becomes a new kind of freedom. Best of 2009
  • One of the most interesting of the pictographs pecked in the rock is a figure which, variously modified, is a common decoration on cliff-dweller pottery from the Verde valley region to the ruins of the Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744
  • When I stood on my native hills, and saw plain and mountain stretch out to the utmost limits of my vision, speckled by the dwellings of my countrymen, and subdued to fertility by their labours, the earth's very centre was fixed for me in that spot, and the rest of her orb was as a fable, to have forgotten which would have cost neither my imagination nor understanding an effort. Introduction, I.1
  • The hill-dwellers of Uttaranchal have long felt unhappy under the thumb of the Uttar Pradesh plainsmen.
  • The magazine's tony mix of intellect and bohemian chic was the perfect home for Gladwell's innate quirkiness. His obsessive theorizing was no longer weird.
  • The green birken shades, where the wild lintie dwells, The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century
  • Perhaps the nurse is struggling to insert an indwelling catheter in a patient who is about to undergo a total hip replacement.
  • The jak trees (artocarpus incisa), near of kin to the bread-fruit, and the durion, flourish round all the dwellings. The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
  • Some were community dwelling ambulatory patients attending a health clinic and others were inpatients on a geriatric ward.
  • A makeshift wooden bridge is the only access to the ramshackle dwelling leading from the road.
  • While both suffered sun damage, the city dwellers aged the most. Times, Sunday Times
  • We have no fur babies which makes us totes sad but our dwelling space doesn't allow for them, only for obnoxious neighbors.
  • The mountains quake before him, the hills melt; the earth is laid waste before him, the world and all that dwell therein…
  • Though some like to dwell on that horror while others ignore it entirely, I believe it is only true to the remarkableness of America if we acknowledge both the horror of that age and the unique American triumph in overcoming it. Bart Motes: Hillary Clinton for Supreme Court
  • Always in the air, flying from flower to flower, it has their freshness as well as their brightness. It lives upon their nectar, and dwells only in the climates where they perennially bloom.
  • Where possible, slum dwellers are allowed to buy the land they are "squatting" on.
  • No one is urged to dwell on the fact that the day's fireworks displays are symbolic of an armed revolution against tyranny and colonialism.
  • Mr. Bedwell obtained a shield from one of them, of a crescented shape, and painted with black stripes; it was made from the wood of the Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
  • To study these reclusive animals, he wades barefoot through the swamps of Venezuela's llanos wetlands ecosystem in search of his water-dwelling subjects.
  • Some Indo-Europeanists believe that dwellings of PIE-speakers were built of something that would have been kneaded or mixed—mud, for example. The English Is Coming!
  • Others have countered that small land-dwelling dinosaurs learned to fly without ever developing arboreal habits: no trees were needed.
  • Systems serving a single family dwelling, duplex, or triplex, require an installation permit from the local health department.
  • The lack of decoration or furniture made his mind dwell on what could be happening outside his cell, and none of it could be good news.
  • They might dwell upon the fact that you were so much together, and that you had such opportunities -- mark me, Reginald, _opportunities_ -- for tampering with the one solitary life which stood between you and fortune. Run to Earth A Novel
  • The former dictator, a palace-dwelling billionaire, was the picture of bedraggled abjectness: mouth forced open, eyes staring glassily.
  • August 6th, 2008 at 6: 19 am i’m so interested to know about antilia tower … can i know the estimate cost antilia tower and material constuction used …. can reply me .. slumdweller Says: Perkins + Will’s Antilla “Green” Tower in Mumbai | Inhabitat
  • For urban dwellers, the best part of treasure hunting would be larking about in countryside. Times, Sunday Times
  • You tend to dwell on the past and rake up old issues which open old wounds and bring fresh pain in relationships.
  • So let us tiptoe past the legal mysteries and dwell instead on the known and the very exposed. Times, Sunday Times
  • On the face of it, this brave little dwelling of wood and reeds is a complete contrast to a gleaming penthouse overlooking Hyde Park, but they're both among the fussiest residences of their eras. £140m for a flat? Perhaps the buyer would like to see my Kilburn des res
  • Without further adventure , they reached the dwelling of Governor Bellingham.
  • Invisible from the road, its hills and woods and ponds are overlooked by a big house in which dwells a princess. Times, Sunday Times
  • Because of this fact alone I should not commend the diversion of moving save to people of very ample means as well as perfect leisure; there are more reasons than the misery of flitting why the dweller in the kilderkin should not covet the hogshead reeking of claret. Suburban Sketches
  • Second, a sense that writers, readers and books should dwell in a pure, fluffy space in the clouds, removed from tawdry concerns of image… or even, perhaps, human physicality.
  • To find answers, Hsieh and Lauder turned to the basilisk lizard, a skittish tree-dwelling species found in Central America.
  • Entering the neighborhood, Phipps had half expected to find the same pristine but characterless dwellings as in Darlington—square boxes that could have been drawn by a child but for the missing squiggle of crayoned smoke coming from their chimneys. Unearthly Asylum
  • A protest group drew first blood in the fight to win people's opinions when an energy company showed its onshore wind farm proposals for Bradwell.
  • I ventured to remind Mammy that all dwellers in the country were not tackies. Southern Lights and Shadows
  • He had a little dread of the magnitude and corners of this dwelling that was to be his in the future, and of the old men who sat in it all day saying nothing, but it was strange indeed (thought he) if with Miss Mary within, and the sunshine and the throng and the children playing in the syver sand without, he should not find life more full and pleasant than it had been in the glen. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
  • She dwells in the country during most of the year.
  • We are not told that they are Scotch, endowed though they undoubtedly are with some of the canny and thrifty characteristics of the dwellers ayont the Tweed. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878
  • That the Persons mutually indwell in love is, accordingly, not free: it is of the essence of God that they do so. Beating the filioque horse
  • Around the circular pit were crowded all the races of Garden, or rather, all those races which had not been ex­terminated resisting the evil Wizards: the hooded Druids, brachiate tree dwellers from the Great Forest, a band of fuzzies in their bright orange robes, many lizard soldiers hissing and laughing and shouting, stubby little Marsh Folk, and hundreds of mutants. Prayers To Broken Stones
  • It is because the Spirit is an earnest of our inheritance, that his indwelling is a seal. A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians
  • In this particular case the major reason for opposing an increase of a handful of dwellings was to object to a precedent being set.
  • There are countless yogis, jnanis, tapasvis, siddhas, and rishis who dwell in the sacred realm of the Himalayas.
  • * The Speedwell, of which Reynolds irg of prophesying ', or privale men's was captain. — Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
  • We estimate demand in the UK is running at around 230,000 dwellings a year but supply is undershooting this mark by 60,000 at 170,000 dwellings.
  • POOLE -- Mildred Joyce Gibson Bridwell, 77, Poole, died at 2: 37 p.m. Friday, Feb. 19, 2010, at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville. Courierpress.com Stories
  • Those who dwell in my heart, which you call a citadel, enter by that road. The Puppet Crown
  • Christian doctrine identifies the rules by which Christians use confessional language to define the social world that they indwell.
  • The term is normally associated with bachelor pads, futuristic penthouses and plate-glass-and-steel mews dwellings.
  • According to the firm's site languagemonitor. com, 'cuddies' - the Hinglish word for ladies underwear or panties; jai ho - used as a term of praise in Hindi that became popular through the Oscar winning 'Slumdog Millionaire'; as well as slumdog - a disparaging description of slum dwellers - are all in the race to becoming the millionth word in the English language. India eNews
  • The desert-dwelling Shasta ground sloth would have eaten the ripe gourds in autumn.
  • There was a marginal difference in the levels of support among urban voters compared to rural ones, with city dwellers only slightly more likely to vote no.
  • Not that she dwells on the past. The Sun
  • Her indwelling urinary catheter was removed, and her urine output remained in normal range.
  • This is a tendency to dwell on what ruffly garment was worn, the precise glossy shade of a woman's hair, and so on.
  • Corey shewed his house and his wife and children to some of our people, his dwelling being at a town or _craal_ of about an hundred houses, five A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
  • He grimaced, his mind dwelling on the premature thoughts that brewed inside him.
  • Glenn, who lives in Speedwell Close, Haydon Wick, took part in a half marathon last month which taught him some valuable lessons about pacing himself.
  • With the progress of civilization all over the world, forest dwellers that were hunters and fruit gatherers have turned into denizens of the concrete jungle.
  • Aerial photographs showed great swaths of slum dwellings flattened or swept away by landslides. Times, Sunday Times
  • Young yet, barely thirty-six, eminently handsome, magnificently strong, almost bursting with a splendid virility, his free trail-stride, never learned on pavements, and his black eyes, hinting of great spaces and unwearied with the close perspective of the city dwellers, drew many a curious and wayward feminine glance. Chapter I
  • Thus if the lag time is much longer than the dwell time, a large number of dwells must be saved and shifted during this process.
  • For example, Itzaj form a group of arboreal animals, including monkeys as well as tree-dwelling procyonids (kinkajou, cacomistle, raccoon) and squirrels (a rodent). How To Study Intuitions: Examples from the Adult and Developmental Literatures
  • What a dreary mourning it is to dwell upon those vehement protests of dead affection! Vanity Fair
  • Regretting now his faint-heartedness in not letting her know beforehand by some means that he was about to make a new start in the world, and coming to dwell near her, Christopher rang the bell to make inquiries. The Hand of Ethelberta
  • Tarkovsky's spirituality is profoundly alien to the west's dualism: it is earthly, earthy, as cool and clear and material as the water his camera spends so long dwelling upon.
  • There is no quiet anymore, no secret pools where fairies dwell, no empty, glowing moments of indescribability.
  • Of all the sea-robbers who sailed from their rocky dwelling-places by the fiords of Norway, none enjoyed higher renown than Rolf, called the ganger, or walker, as tradition relates, because his stature was so gigantic that, when clad in full armor, no horse could support his weight, and he therefore always fought on foot. Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II
  • That's why they burned down their straw shelters and left no trace of their dwellings, only their sarcophagi and burial mounds.
  • When life is not going to plan, look for solutions rather than dwell on problems. The Sun
  • Aerial photographs showed great swaths of slum dwellings flattened or swept away by landslides. Times, Sunday Times
  • Attachment to the wealth in any form is to be sublimated by realization that all the wealth is illusory and the real Lord is our indwelling Self in everything.
  • God continually illumines us, both dwelling upon us and dwelling among us.
  • When the signal is correlated with a dwell time much longer than its frequency, the signal gets effectively averaged out in each dwell time and the calculated correlation function gets damped.
  • Originally the term monastery designated, both in the East and in the West, the dwelling either of a solitary or of a community; while caenobium, congregatio, fraternitas, asceterion, etc. were applied solely to the houses of communities. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
  • Cullen often dwells on the innocence and clear-eyed religiousness of his youth - the holy water the family blessed themselves with before leaving home, attending Mass every morning.
  • Other forest dwelling mammals include forest buffalo (Syncerus caffer nanus), and larger forest antelopes such as bongo (Tragelaphus euryceros) and sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekei). Northwestern Congolian lowland forests
  • I won't dwell on it with the players. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then had come the colonists, with their tractors and their rolls of stellene to make sealed dwellings and covered fields in that thin, almost oxygenless atmosphere. The Planet Strappers
  • Viewing from the global scale, the occurrence of settlements seemed to have started from the ground cave dwelling since the late period of homo erectus.
  • The recent survey found that 20 per cent of private-rented dwellings are unfit for human habitation.
  • Pride and grace dwell never in one place. 
  • We discussed our proposals with a planning officer who told us it might be possible to build a replacement dwelling up to 30% larger. Times, Sunday Times
  • Take them, build a dwelling place and live in peace. Phoenix From the Flame
  • What the farmer gets is what the urban dweller pays minus transportation and distribution costs.
  • It will soon be well known that the surest way to inflict pain upon you is to extol the excellences or to dwell on the happiness of others, and your failings will be considered an amusing subject for jesting observation to experimentalize upon. The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends
  • Countryside dwellers are planning direct action protests should a North Yorkshire landfill site be used to bury foot and mouth culled cattle.
  • Slices of meat the size of individual portions, they were in their way forerunners of hamburgers, served up to busy city dwellers in the London chophouses that proliferated from the 1690s onwards.
  • Caldwell, remember, is the human personification of the wise centaur, Chiron.
  • It's not something to dwell on. The Sun
  • Whereas my little oasis, one of thirty `professional person's dwellings ', was five minutes from every city centre amenity. KICK BACK
  • The aqueduct begins at Chadwell Spring, near Ware in Hertfordshire, and is soon joined by a cut from the River Lea.
  • I shut out the memory which was too painful to dwell on.
  • While the Ambre project emphasized the use of covered barges to minimize land-dwellers' exposure to coal dust for moving coal down to St. Helens each year, Kinder Morgan representatives said they were aware that their even-larger project dependent on rail cars would require quite a bit of community input. Coal Fuels a Fight in Oregon
  • Home builders across the country say they are getting an increasing number of requests for such additions, known as mother-in-law suites, granny flats or accessory dwellings. Mother-in-law suites growing home trend
  • Today, it is another kind of crusade, to protect the sacred places of the earth wherein dwell freedom and justice, and good faith and mercy, and humane and Christian civilization. The Present Challenge to Canada
  • Other arctic flatfish include the long rough dab, which is an abundant bottom-dweller in some parts of the Arctic seas, including the Barents Sea Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth
  • The ground fell away from the river somewhat at first, and then rose and fell again before it went up in one slope toward the Wolfing dwellings.
  • Famously discovered by Harry Johnston and named by P.L. Sclater in 1901 (Johnston thought he was tracking down reports of a new forest-dwelling equid), Okapia is a short-necked forest-dwelling giraffid, though how typical it is in the grand scheme of giraffid diversity and evolution has proved controversial. Archive 2006-06-01
  • At the time when Master Pihringer came to dwell with us, Herdegen was already high enough to pass into the upper school, for he was first in his 'ordo'; but our guardian, the old knight Hans Im Hoff, of whom I shall have much to tell, held that he was yet too young for the risks of Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
  • She couldn't help but dwell on her failures, screw-ups, and her crummy life.
  • Once it was called Talbot House though the resounding name belies the small bright dwelling wedged into the row which supports it. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
  • Everyday life is much more interesting to me than big, abstract theories. Through my poetry, I aim to reflect our times. I don’t want to dwell on the olden days, although it is a period I mention often. Gulzar 
  • Even if the area is mapped as access land, you will not be able to walk within 20m of a dwelling, or in gardens or courtyards within the curtilage of a property, unless a right of way already exists.
  • Hawthorne as a soft-marrowed dweller in the dusk, fostering his own shyness and fearing to take the rubs of common men, pray look well at all this. A Study of Hawthorne
  • Here, the unrecorded deeds of long-dead city dwellers come to light; the brewers, tanners, cabinet makers, printers and bakers are all to be found in the records of the city's ancient parishes.
  • Keyes' latest masterpiece dwells on all of these, depicting voyeurism at its playful, charming finest.
  • Rainforest-dwelling people have learnt to live in harmony with their environment.
  • All patients who had an indwelling Foley catheter were successfully voiding within 12 days after the procedure.
  • The words we speak help to build a kind of inner dwelling, plotting out the psyche's suite of rooms and corridors and courtyards, its stairways, arbours, spots of sun and shade.
  • So we can dwell on his failings, or we can lionize him.
  • As soon as the vessel was secured Mr. Bedwell landed on the eastern shore of the bay, and found it to be of bold approach, but lined with coral rocks, and covered with dead shells, among which a buccinum of immense size was noticed. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
  • One thing we coastal dwellers have that upcountry folk don't, is our beaches.
  • The alpine marmot is a large ground-dwelling squirrel living in mountain open meadows, preferentially exposed to south.
  • Their wealth consists in land and cattle; their dwellings are generally of reeds, their beds are mats made of _Asouman_ (maranta juncea) and leopards 'skins; and their cloathing broad pieces of cotton. Naufrage de la frigate la Méduse. English
  • Since that survey took place, more slums have been cleared and more dwellings repaired and improved, but likewise more will have decayed and declined. Introduction to Social Administration in Britain
  • In the wilderness have ever dwelt the conscientious, the free spirits, as lords of the wilderness; but in the cities dwell the well – foddered, famous wise ones — the draught – beasts. Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
  • Presently the authorised planning use of the land is one dwelling house with residential curtilage.
  • Down below, a mile, perhaps, a rocky point juts out into the river, up above another, so this forms a kind of indentation, an exclusive sort of bay for the dwellers therein, and the whole rather aristocratic settlement is put down on the railway map as Grandon Park. Floyd Grandon's Honor
  • one who cleans and restores and sometimes ruins old pictures"; Pict: "one of an ancient people of obscure affinities, in Britain, esp. north-eastern Scotland; in Scottish folklore, one of a dwarfish race of underground dwellers, to whom (with the Romans, the Druids and Cromwell) ancient monuments are generally attributed"; perpetrate: "to execute or commit (esp. an offence, a poem, or a pun)"; and eclair: "... long in shape but short in duration. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1
  • Few, very few, fo that even among us, flraightis the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth to life, and few there be which are going therein; even our nation abounds - with baptized infidels* Thas whether we look abroad or at home, we fee darknefs hath covered the earth and grofs darknefs the people who dwell therein* Ten sermons on the Millennium; or, The glory of the latter days; and five sermons on what ...
  • It is not easy to take a dweller from a town and turn him on the land of any country. Empire Development
  • One fellow London-dweller of my acquaintance said recently she was finally decamping from the city.
  • Heavy doses of nitrogen fertiliser will tip the competitive balance in favour of grasses, and soon purple wood crane's bill, blood-red greater burnet, frothy white pignut and meadowsweet, yellow lady's bedstraw, globe flower and blue speedwells will vanish, leaving an "improved" pasture – more productive, more profitable, but oh-so dull. Make hay meadow photos while the sun shines | Phil Gates
  • Kea, the world's only snow line-dwelling parrot, are widely known as inquisitive birds who appear to take delight in attacking rubber items like windshield wiper blades. KOLO - HomePage - Headlines
  • In addition to being a proscribed ethnic group by the government, the Chinese were predominantly city-dwellers, making them vulnerable to the Khmer Rouge's revolutionary ruralism. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • So Martin contaminated Professor Caldwell with his own earnestness, challenging him to speak his mind. Chapter 27
  • Queen of Argos, daughter of Tyndareus, sister of those two noble sons of Zeus, who dwell in the flame-lit firmament amid the stars, whose guerdon high it is to save the sailor tossing on the sea. Electra
  • How I pity the unhappy wretches who are doomed to dwell in such a place!
  • Our stable abuts against his dwelling.
  • House prices have shot up and the former slum dwellers are sitting pretty. Times, Sunday Times
  • They did not think of themselves as slumdwellers but as people. Times, Sunday Times
  • The glossy leaves of soapwort and finely textured carpets of Turkish speedwell stay green for most of the winter.
  • Nature does not dwell in the realm of planned obsolescence.
  • Caldwell went on to say the researchers found that stirring up the bed bugs by spraying their environment with synthetic versions of their alarm pheromones makes them more likely to walk through agents called desiccant dusts, which kill the bugs by making them highly susceptible to dehydration. New Research Shows We May Finally Win The Battle Against Bed Bug Infestation
  • Most of the exhibitions left the viewers with the conviction that the most authentic identity of an urban environment is determined by its dwellers.
  • It is notorious that many of the leases of new dwelling-houses contain a clause against dancing, lest the premises should suffer from a mazurka, tremble at a gallopade, or fall prostrate under the inflictions of "the parson's farewell," or "the wind that shakes the barley. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832
  • The zoo here is now playing host to a pair each of seamy crocodiles, alligators and caimans, giving the city dwellers a glimpse of some rare species.
  • which include single family dwellings, duplexes, triplexes, and apartment blocks.
  • A microclimate, which is a variation in the climate on a local level caused by topography or human activities or dwellings, is in one sense proof that man plays an important role regarding the earth's climate.
  • The original word Rusini is derived from Rus, the abstract word for Russian fatherland or dwelling-place of the Slavic people; and the English word "Russian" may therefore mean a derivative from the word Rus, as denominating the race, or it may mean a subject of the Russian Empire. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
  • Four hours had passed, and barren mountain after barren mountain still lay ahead, the only sign of human habitation being a couple of tiny isolated dwellings.
  • It is not the task of catallactic theory to depict in detail the calamities of panicky days and weeks and to dwell upon their sometimes grotesque aspects. _Politik
  • Instead, given new life, the Jaguars took full advantage and won the game, leaving the Colts at 2-2 and second-guessers with a legitimate beef about Caldwell's dumbfounding, Jim Zorn-like clock management decision. Know when to fold 'em
  • For a while, she didn't know what to do; she passed through the days listlessly, her mind not dwelling on any one subject for too long.
  • There were not a few who saw things blackly in this respectand flayed the planlessness and heedlessness of the Reich's policies, andwell recognized their inner weakness and hollowness but these were onlyoutsiders in political life; the official government authorities passedby the observations of a Houston Stewart Chamberlain with the same indifferenceas still occurs today. Mein Kampf
  • You have a lot of coastal dwellers particularly in the north, where cyclones and even typhoons, hurricanes are a problem, and we warmer waters are going to generate more intense cyclones.
  • The Filipino government claims it would cost about a third of the national budget to rehouse Manila's slum dwellers. Want to know what to do about slum dwellers? Try listening to them
  • A tense-looking Henman, perhaps still dwelling on Friday's singles defeat, flirts with danger at 15-30 but finds his first serve at the crucial moment to escape.
  • It has now been sold and is a private dwelling and pottery workshop.
  • A large colour photograph from his shack dweller series has been bleached of its content, the sitter a vague outline, a ghostly presence leached from the scene.
  • No one is urged to dwell on the fact that the day's fireworks displays are symbolic of an armed revolution against tyranny and colonialism.
  • A Bright Idea guilloche Caldwell says he's one of few artisans who know a special technique called guilloche, which scrapes reflective indentations into his metal pieces to create a radiating shine. Week in Words

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