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- noun Plural form of
indweller ..
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Examples
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With a throbbing heart, Elspat went to the fireplace in the centre of the hut, where slumbered, covered with a piece of turf, the glimmering embers of the fire, never extinguished on a Scottish hearth until the indwellers leave the mansion for ever.
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What would he deserve, who should bring fire and slaughter into so fair and happy a scene — who should bare the swords of the gentry and turn them against each other — who should give tower and cottage to the flames, and slake the embers with the blood of the indwellers? —
The Abbot 2008
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Not the Merchauntes, but the indwellers of the Countrie.
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The corner, so intercepted, used to be and is still called “Little Denmark;” and the indwellers feel a large contempt for all their outer neighbors.
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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It is called Aspharage, said he, and all the indwellers are
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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It is called Aspharage, said he, and all the indwellers are
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Otherwise the wind and rain and snow blew into the rooms, so that it was impossible even to keep a candle alight, and the indwellers would have been frozen to death during the long cold winters.
Heidi 2000
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There was not much to see just now as its indwellers were absent.
Heidi 2000
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He had lived too many years in the Limits under the ever-abiding shadow of the Guild where the indwellers spoke with awe and dread of what that organization could do and had done in the past.
Flight in Yiktor Norton, Andre 1986
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The whole ASSESSED TAXES, though not avowedly and exclusively a tax on the landed interest, are, practically speaking, and in reality, a burden on them almost entirely; at least they are so much heavier on the landowners than the inhabitants of towns, that the burden is nothing in comparison on urban indwellers.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various
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