All 7 Uses of
dwell
in
The Idiot
- …this time, very soon forgot all about the child; but five years after, returning to Russia, it struck him that he would like to look over his estate and see how matters were going there, and, arrived at his bailiff's house, he was not long in discovering that among the children of the latter there now dwelt a most lovely little girl of twelve, sweet and intelligent, and bright, and promising to develop beauty of most unusual quality-as to which last Totski was an undoubted authority.†
Chpt 1.4
- How many times I have needed all three of you; but only you have dwelt always in my mind's eye.†
Chpt 2.1
- " And he added with a smile: "No doubt the epileptic Mahomet refers to that same moment when he says that he visited all the dwellings of Allah, in less time than was needed to empty his pitcher of water."†
Chpt 2.5 *
- He was sitting in the Summer Garden on a seat under a tree, and his mind dwelt on the matter.†
Chpt 2.5
- With crimson cheeks he read on unsteadily: "But while our young millionaire dwelt as it were in the Empyrean, something new occurred.†
Chpt 2.8
- He did not dwell much on the Petersburg part of it, which consisted chiefly of intelligence about his friend Hippolyte, but passed quickly to the Pavlofsk tidings.†
Chpt 2.11
- God knows what it is dwelling within me now—it is not myself.†
Chpt 3.10 *
Definitions:
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(dwelling as in: a modest dwelling) a house or shelter in which someone lives
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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