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Example sentences for "dwell"

Lexicographically close words:
dwarfing; dwarfish; dwarfness; dwarfs; dwel; dwelle; dwelled; dwellen; dweller; dwellers
  1. I shall not dwell upon this aspect of the adventure, for it must be apparent to all.

  2. I shall not dwell upon such pitiful scenes, but recall only those which seem to me of interest to my fellow countrymen.

  3. I will not dwell upon the manner of her meeting with Leon, nor upon the amazement with which I beheld her in this situation.

  4. I closed my eyes, and wished that I might be dreaming; but it was no dream, but a terrific reality: I will not dwell on that period, I should only shock you.

  5. He is dear to me who knows Brahma, and can dwell on His supreme truth in meditation; and who can play the melody of the Infinite by uniting love and renunciation in life.

  6. It is but an empty dream, that the soul shall have union with Him because it has passed from the body: If He is found now, He is found then, If not, we do but go to dwell in the City of Death.

  7. He was to show that as an old friend and playmate he felt for her; and he might, if he saw his way to it, intimate delicately that though he might grieve on her account at her return to dwell among them, he could not do so on his own.

  8. We need not, however, dwell on this period.

  9. The great mechanics dwell in the realm of the real.

  10. Therefore, rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them.

  11. It is better not to dwell on what I felt after this last repulse.

  12. I may surely dwell a little on my last talk with you!

  13. I must dwell on what is now the one employment and the one hope of my life," I said.

  14. Only let them remember that love must dwell in the will as well as in the heart.

  15. Tell me thy will, that I May do it as my best, my highest joy; For thou dost work in me, I dwell in thee.

  16. Wilt thou take Thy centre-thought of living beauty, born In thee, and send it home to dwell with me?

  17. A smile from one thou lovedst well Gladdened thee all the day; The doubt which all day far did dwell Came home with twilight gray.

  18. But he whose heart is full of grace To his own kindred all about, Shall find in lowest human face, Blasted with wrong and dull with doubt, More than in Nature's holiest place Where mountains dwell and streams run out.

  19. Justice and judgment dwell with Thee, Whatever is, Thine eye doth see: Thou know'st what human hearts conceive And none Thy wisdom may deceive.

  20. In Abraham's bosom it shall dwell 'Mid verdant bowers, as Lazarus lies Whom Dives sees with longing eyes From out the far-off fires of hell.

  21. Ever selfish, I have allowed him to dwell alone in a far-off city, exposed to all the vicissitudes of life.

  22. Her eyes filled with tears, and she let herself dwell upon the wondrous possibility a second or so longer than she believed in it.

  23. This England, which had seduced many of his own congregants to Christian costume, had often seemed to him to be stealing away his son, though he had never let himself dwell upon the dread.

  24. Those who dwell on the ghats or passes of the Sainhyadri Hills to the south of the Berar plain.

  25. He believed in transmigration, but held that the successive stages were but purifications, and that at last the soul, cleansed from sin, went to dwell with its maker.

  26. Let the three first classes (Brahmans, Kshatriyas and Vaishyas) invariably dwell in the above-mentioned countries; but a Sudra distressed for subsistence may sojourn wherever he chooses.

  27. As a rule the former, if they have not remained in the most primitive social condition of man, live not in separate families but in large households or communities, all the members of which dwell in very close contact with each other.

  28. What need of fields in some far clime Where Heroes, Sages, Bards sublime, 50 And all that fetched the flowing rhyme From genuine springs, Shall dwell together till old Time Folds up his wings?

  29. And to the pleasant Banks of Tone She took her way, to dwell alone 1800.

  30. One might believe that natural miseries Had blasted France, and made of it a land Unfit for men; and that in one great band Her sons were bursting forth, to dwell at ease.

  31. Briar, "blame me not; Why should we dwell in strife?

  32. Till the foundations of the mountains fail My mansion with its arbour shall endure;-- The joy of them who till the fields of Swale, 75 And them who dwell among the woods of Ure!

  33. The terms were soon arranged, and Paul Weldon came to dwell within my walls.

  34. Too guilty to dwell with the pure; too innocent to consort with the vicious, where shall I go?

  35. Could that false Athenian king Know what desperate faith doth cling To thy heart, he would again Seek the bride so soon forsaken— But thy trust would then be shaken: Better dwell thou by the main!

  36. He entered the church, and resting his burning head upon the cold marble underneath which his parents reposed, endeavored to calm himself—to tear his thoughts from subjects which he dreaded to dwell on.

  37. No secret sigh o’er pleasures lost Convulsed their tranquil breast, For where the pure affections dwell The heart hath perfect rest.

  38. Heaven for sparing him this trial; never for a moment did she doubt his constancy, or cease to dwell upon his love as still fully hers.

  39. It was all ready for him to dwell in, but instead of being in the midst of the forest, he did wish he had left the bundle unloosed till he had reached the green valley close to his father's palace.

  40. And not only was I wroth, but my people likewise, and when it was known that thou wast come to dwell in the land, they besought me much to change them into mice, that they might eat thy corn.

  41. And Manawyddan looked, and saw corn growing in the fields, and cows and sheep grazing on the hill-side, and huts for the people to dwell in.

  42. Beside a beautiful image which he treasured in the sanctuary of his memories, only allowing his mind to dwell upon it in his happiest hours, sought to intrude.

  43. I'll take the hint myself, Herr Van der Werf, for many friends of the king still dwell in Leyden, who must be taught not to follow you blindly to the shambles.

  44. Our English antiquarians were used to dwell with rapture on the words of his panegyrist, "Britannias illic oriendo nobiles fecisti.

  45. Well, well; I will not dwell upon these things.

  46. Do not let anything that I have said dwell upon your mind, my dear.

  47. We all, perhaps, say some wretched things which dwell on other people's minds, long after we have forgotten them ourselves.

  48. I hear quite enough about that away from home; and I can assure you, professionally, that it is a bad subject to dwell upon.

  49. How common it is for one's friends to drop a heavy weight upon one's heart, and then desire one not to let it dwell there!

  50. When he did dwell upon it, his heart sank within him.

  51. Here dwell a calm conscience, and a life that knows not deceit.

  52. Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny What I have spoke: but farewell compliment!

  53. Rather let us dwell upon the happiness of those fortunate enough to escape.

  54. I need not dwell upon the succession of incidents that followed: are they not written in every book that tells of young hearts loving in despite of authority?

  55. The next morning, at early dawn, our travellers resumed their journey, which I will leave them to prosecute, whilst I conduct my reader to the affairs and interests that dwell about the Dove Cote.

  56. There rose upon her thoughts imaginings or presentiments of ill, which she did not like to dwell upon, but which she could not banish.

  57. The answer is a description of the men who dwell with God.

  58. First there swells forth from all the singers the triumphant proclamation of God's universal sovereignty, "The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof; the world and they that dwell therein.

  59. And so the first question is answered, "Who are the men who dwell with God?

  60. Why should we dwell on the wretched story?

  61. God will make us pure, that we may dwell with Him.

  62. A chord or two from the harp permits the mind to dwell on the thought of the foes, and prepares for the second part of this psalm.

  63. As our purpose in this volume is not a complete biography, it will not be necessary to dwell on the subsequent portions of the exile, inasmuch as there is little reference to these in the psalms.

  64. The Emanuel, the God with us, the thought of whom made the prophets tremble centuries before He came, that divine Teacher who loves to dwell with the children of men, the Catholic Church beholds dwelling in the midst of us on our altars.

  65. Then he goeth and taketh with him seven spirits more wicked than himself, and entering in they dwell there.

  66. Henceforth I will follow the way of the cross traced out for me by my Redeemer, and journey onward to my heavenly home, there to dwell for ever and ever.

  67. From her He was to take that sacred body in which He was to dwell on earth, the blood of which He was to shed on the cross for our redemption, and in which He was to return to heaven to sit at the right hand of the Father.

  68. Have I not compelled Thee often to dwell in my heart, full of sin and impurity as it was?


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    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dwell together; dwell upon; dwelling house; dwelling houses; dwelling place