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Sentences ending with dwelt

And now she was to behold a palace even greater than these,--and the house where the President himself dwelt. [9]
But indeed Ann was an honored guest in many a lordly house wherein our school and playmates dwelt. [10]
On that estate stood the cottage where John Paul was born, and where his mother and sisters still dwelt. [9]
One of life's Revolutionaries was insolently ravaging the secret place where her pride dwelt. [11]
After being quietly married in the house of Polybius, she, with her young husband and Andreas, moved to Carthage, where an uncle of Diodoros dwelt. [10]
This his parents knew, and they had long since charged Kunz to inquire where he dwelt. [10]
He had intuition, if not enough of it, for the regions where the mind of Fleda Druse dwelt. [11]
Some of them appeared to him to be taller than common mortals, and their chant was certainly that of another world than this where he dwelt. [10]

Short sentences using dwelt

The Furies dwelt in her. [11]

Sentences containing dwelt two or more times

How long have ye dwelt here, and whither are they gone that dwelt here before ye? [5]

More example sentences with the word dwelt in them

He had never yet visited the northern part of the lake, there where it was so dark, and mysterious, and where--as old Nonna used to relate--evil spirits dwelt, and a giant covered with pumice-stone was compelled by a curse to live. [10]
For thousands of years this clan have dwelt in Shechem under strict tabu, and having little commerce or fellowship with their fellow men of any religion or nationality. [5]
I did not wish to return at once to Elkington, but I dwelt with a pleasant anticipation upon my visit, when the campaign should be over, with George. [9]
How this brother, whose temper was very mild and quiet and retiring--such as Mr Abel's--was greatly beloved by the simple people among whom he dwelt, who quite revered the Bachelor (for so they called him), and had every one experienced his charity and benevolence. [12]
The worthy doctor, who had baptized both my mother and father, died suddenly at Carvel Hall the spring following, of a cold contracted while visiting a poor man who dwelt across the river. [9]
She knew now where the excommunicated man dwelt after whom Stephanus often asked, and she had gathered from the old man's lamentations and dark hints, that Paulus too had been ensnared and brought to ruin by her enemy. [10]
In the Caesareum, where the Empress dwelt, the lights were extinguished one after another; but in the palace of Lochias they grew more numerous and brighter. [10]
In the shadows where his nature dwelt now he would not allow her good innocence and truth to enter. [11]
Wordsworth was wrong when he wrote: "'No mate, no comrade Lucy knew; She dwelt on a wide moor: The sweetest thing that ever grew Beside a human door--' For my wife's been her comrade. [11]
He dwelt upon what she did; the walks she took in the park, those hours in the afternoon when, with Mackenzie or Colvin, she vanished into the beeches, making friends with the birds and deer and swans. [11]
And then a weird apparition marched forth at the head of the procession--a pirate, I thought, if ever a pirate dwelt upon land. [5]
Near the spot we sailed from, the Holy Family dwelt when they sojourned in Egypt till Herod should complete his slaughter of the innocents. [5]
Each of them was still a part of the other, for her image lived in his soul, as his dwelt in hers. [10]
All day she was American, practically, and proud of the work of her head and hands and its commercial result; all the evening she took holiday and dwelt in a rich shadow-land peopled with titled and coroneted fictions. [5]
She put the vile side of him out of her mind, and dwelt only on recollections of his occasional acts of kindness to her. [5]
I shall never view again the citadel on those tall heights where I was detained so barbarously, nor the gracious Manor House at Beauport, sacred to me because of her who dwelt therein--how long ago, how long! [11]
And the more Venters dwelt on this possibility the more perturbed he grew. [13]
Her mind dwelt upon their intercourse. [9]
Indirectly, it dwelt upon the steadiness and manliness of Frank's character; directly, lightly, and without rhetoric, it enlarged upon their own comradeship. [11]
Her mind dwelt upon it now, for the first time, and tried to construct it. [9]
And I dwelt upon a future holiday there, on the joys of sharing with a friend that historic place. [9]
On his way to the mill he had dwelt with Epicurean indulgence on this sight of her, and he had not been disappointed. [9]
At any other time his mind would have dwelt upon the fact. [11]
Austen Vane he thought the world of, and dwelt upon this subject a little longer than Victoria, under the circumstances, would have wished. [9]
But perhaps she thought that human pity dwelt there, and would be more merciful than the teeth of the hounds. [4]
Verily, here in this humble place dwelt a love that defied the hard usage of a hard world! [9]
But even now they could not make their way to the long row of houses where the embalmers dwelt, for an impenetrable mass of human beings stood pent up in front of them, and Melissa begged her brother to give her a moment's breathing space. [10]
In the Thebaid there dwelt a penitent who thought he led a perfectly saintly life and far transcended all his companions in stern virtue. [10]
On one of them he dwelt long and joyfully. [2]
That portion of the universal soul which of yore dwelt in Roxana, and now in you, Melissa, has also vanquished the pain which has embittered my life. [10]
Many have been the themes upon which writers and public speakers have dwelt with intense and increasing interest. [5]
However, at present, the subject must not be dwelt upon; it presses me too hardly--nearly--and painfully. [14]
He dwelt upon the personal character of His Excellency's antecedents, and praised their honourable services to the country. [11]
I dwelt upon the obligations I was under to John Paul, relating the misfortunes of that worthy seaman (which he so little deserved!). [9]
As to corn, the necessities of the case and pay being dwelt on, perhaps he could find a dozen ears. [4]
He dwelt on the magnificence of the huge hotel set on the borders of a lake like an inland sea, and related such portions of the festivities incidental to "the seeing of Chicago" as would bear repetition. [9]
The terrors of the hurricane which dispersed the fleet, and this shipwreck, were much dwelt upon by the writers of the time, and the Bermudas became a sort of enchanted islands, or realms of the imagination. [4]
Neither dwelt on the humour of the situation. [11]
He thought of the forefathers of those whom he knew, who dwelt north of Market Street. [9]
He dwelt upon the fact that his saddle was new and ours were old, and the advantages that would accrue to us from the exchange. [4]
He turned to the doorway where a stew-pot rested, and his mind dwelt cheerfully on the lamb he had looted for Fielding's dinner. [11]
The people on the boat who dwelt in Cooperstown were not talking about Cooper, perhaps had not thought of him for a year. [4]
The image of the aged sufferer, lying in pain and sorrow far from her old his home, in a stranger's house, constantly forced itself upon her, and she often dwelt upon it, imagining it with ingenious self-torture. [10]
He dwelt upon the admission of base wrong in Col. Selby's dying statement. [5]
A portion of that soul, which dwelt in all created things, had its abode in each human being, to return to the divine source after death. [10]
It was curious that his imagination would not rise, now, to a realization of that intercourse on which, at times, his fancy had dwelt with such vividness. [9]
Who was to tell these solid, educated business men that the crazy industrial Babel they had helped to rear, and in which they unconsciously dwelt, was no longer the simple edifice they thought it? [9]
I can but take up some of the points that he has dwelt upon, and employ my half-hour specially on them. [7]
There is a spot not far from the Coniston road, and five miles distant alike from Brampton and Coniston, where Bob Worthington built his house, and where he and Cynthia dwelt many years; and they go there to this day, in the summer-time. [9]
Here dwelt the spirit of his fathers; here he found men who enjoyed life after his own fashion, who could share his enthusiasms and his hatreds. [10]
He dwelt with special luxury on the charms which seduced the royal psalmist,--the soldier's wife for whom he broke the commands of the decalogue, and the maiden for whose attentions, in his cooler years, he violated the dictates of prudence and propriety. [6]
Were there, then, some unexplored regions in his nature, where things dwelt, of which she had no glimmering of knowledge? [11]
The economic and social significance of this tendency, the new attitude of the working classes, the ferment it is causing need not be dwelt upon here. [9]
The last will show you the series of enlarging compartments successively dwelt in by the animal that inhabits the shell, which is built in a widening spiral. [6]
With cruel self-torture she dwelt upon the terrible dread, for she thought she had noticed that the best success often followed when she had expected the worst result. [10]
Often she had sat with closed eyes for a long time, dreaming that she was in the kingdom of heaven and, herself an angel, dwelt with angels. [10]
Ahab, King of Samaria, (this was a very vast kingdom, for those days, and was very nearly half as large as Rhode Island) dwelt in the city of Jezreel, which was his capital. [5]
Nevertheless, as he rode on, the water-wagtail's little figure dwelt in his mind; not alone, however, for that of Paula immediately rose by her side; and the smaller Katharina's seemed, the more ample and noble did the other appear. [10]
Antigonus closed his report with the impudent whistle of the Greek athlete; he dwelt chiefly on his astonishment at Melissa's absence. [10]
Here, in this remote paradise now in ruins, people had dwelt and loved. [9]
The charge must persistently and resentfully and remorselessly dwelt upon is that Mr. Rockefeller's contribution is incurably tainted by perjury--perjury proved against him in the courts. [5]
The rather long period of his struggle, which is a common struggle, and often disheartening, need not be dwelt on here. [4]
For many years past she and her husband abode in the forest during the summer months only, and dwelt in their town-house the winter through. [10]
This Queen, who owed allegiance to Powhatan, had much land under cultivation, and dwelt in state on a pretty hill. [4]
Those who dwelt out here in these wilds must, methought, feel this as I felt it; and so in truth it proved. [10]
Here a Motley or a Longfellow might have dwelt, a Bryant penned his "Thanatopsis. [9]
The occasion was one to call out his finest powers of personal appearance, and one he long dwelt on with pleasure. [5]
Her mind dwelt on the little mud hut and the onion field, and she saw down by the foreshore of the river the great khiassas from Assouan and Luxor laden with cotton or dourha or sugar-cane, their bent prows hooked in the Nile mud. [11]
To fall back on the errors of the time is very proper when we are trying our predecessors in foro conscientace: The houses they dwelt in may have had some weak or decayed beams and rafters, but they served for their shelter, at any rate. [6]
His eyes dwelt on Sir Duke Lawless for a moment, and then, coming nearer, he said, "You are an Englishman? [11]
Had he dwelt on Olympus, he might have been summoned to judge and chastise the sons of men. [11]
His eyes dwelt on it long he recalled the scene: a night with stars and no moon, a huge bonfire to light the Indians, at their dance, and Marcey, Laforce, and many others there, among whom was Lucille, the little daughter of Gyng the Factor. [11]
Not a word of this discourse had escaped Mastor, and the often repeated verse, "Come unto me all ye that labor," dwelt in his mind like the invitation of a hospitable friend bidding him to happy days of freedom and enjoyment. [10]
While in command of the Providence, twelve four-pounders, his successful elusions of the 'Cerberus', which hounded him, and his escape from the 'Solebay', are too famous to be dwelt upon here. [9]
But I have no doubt the Young Lady read it over and over, and dwelt also upon every moment, and found in it new proof of unshaken constancy, and had in that and the like things in the letter a sense of the sweetest communion. [4]
He mentioned many names, some remembered, some forgotten, like his own; dwelt on pleasures and customs gone by forever. [9]
But these things must not be dwelt upon. [5]
He dwelt very much upon the relief this would be to him, and the opportunity it would give her in many emergencies, and the absolute confidence he had in her discretion, as well as in her quick sympathy with the suffering about them. [4]
Nothing could be more interesting than to come into contact with a mind that from infancy onward had dwelt only upon what is noblest in literature, and from which had been excluded all that is enervating and degrading. [4]
He called to mind a long succession of loving passages between his father and himself, and dwelt fondly upon them, his unstinted tears attesting how deep and real was the grief that possessed his heart. [5]
One part of me dwelt in a fanciful realm of his own weaving, and the other part was a commonplace and protesting inhabitant of a world of lessons, disappointments and discipline. [9]
She remembered the Mall, where she used to walk with her father, and the row of houses where the rich dwelt, which had seemed like palaces. [9]
Its spacious apartments looked dreary and desolate; for here Dudley Venner and his daughter dwelt by themselves, with such servants only as their quiet mode of life required. [6]
She found this look of Dryfoos's pathetic, and dwelt on the sort of stupefaction there was in it; he must have loved his son more than they ever realized. [8]
It is a long story; unfortunately it is an old story, and it need not be dwelt on. [5]
She had, from little things said or done, from newspapers marked and a hundred small indications, made up her mind that her mistress's mind dwelt much upon "the Egyptian. [11]
In him the Lion and the Lamb, the Eagle and the Dove dwelt together in amity and power. [9]
They have fled like cowards, after dealing the sorest blows, robbing of their dearest possessions those among whom they dwelt in peace, whose protection they enjoyed, and who for long years have given them work and ample food. [10]
They had a legend that, some day, one, whom they called The Man Who Sleeps, would rise from his hidden couch in the mountains, and, being angry that any dared to cumber his playground, would hurl The Stone upon them that dwelt at Purple Hill. [11]
Among these Thackeray's Lectures (which had lately been delivered in Manchester) were spoken of and that on Fielding especially dwelt upon. [14]
I do not know why I have dwelt so long on such a minor character as Bijah, except that the man fascinates me. [9]
It is too knotty a point of ethics to be dwelt upon here. [9]
Her soul, when it once dwelt in Roxana, was fondly linked with that of the hero; and now, in the bosom of this simple maiden, it is drawn to the unforgotten fellow-soul which has found its home in my breast. [10]
The Judge thinks it is altogether wrong that I should have dwelt upon this charge of Trumbull's at all. [7]
For several generations it had been dwelt in by descendants of the same name, but soon after the Revolution it passed by marriage into the hands of the Venners, by whom it had ever since been held and tenanted. [6]
But so many interests were quenched by this blindness that he was driven inwards, and must have dwelt much on what was painful and distressing in regard to his only son. [14]
Another was chained inseparably to a comrade, and the couple dwelt together in a cave in the limestone hills near Lycopolis. [10]
But the situation, in view of the attitude of Francis Ferguson, was too delicate to be dwelt upon. [9]
They knew That in the temple's inmost place a spirit dwelt, Made all of light! [5]
His spirit, existing in every form of nature, dwelt also in man, and wherever a mortal gazed he could discern the rule of the "One. [10]

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