All 5 Uses of
dwell
in
As You Like It
- Thus most invectively he pierceth through The body of the country, city, court, Yea, and of this our life: swearing that we Are mere usurpers, tyrants, and what's worse, To fright the animals, and to kill them up In their assign'd and native dwelling-place.†
Scene 2.1
- Where dwell you, pretty youth?†
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- As the coney, that you see dwell where she is kindled.†
Scene 3.2
- Your accent is something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling.†
Scene 3.2
- I press in here, sir, amongst the rest of the country copulatives, to swear and to forswear; according as marriage binds and blood breaks:—A poor virgin, sir, an ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own; a poor humour of mine, sir, to take that that no man else will; rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor-house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.†
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Definitions:
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(dwell as in: It dwells in the forest.) make one's home in; or to live in; or to stay (in a place)
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(dwell as in: Don't dwell on it.) to think, communicate, or let attention stay on (or return to) something for a prolonged period