All 3 Uses of
dwell
in
Anna Karenina
- When she mused on the past, she dwelt with pleasure, with tenderness, on the memories of her relations with Levin.†
Part 1
- And he recalled his brother Nikolay, and dwelt with pleasure on the thought of him.†
Part 1 *
- Can he be going to stay the night?" she wondered, and the thought of all that might come of such a chance struck her as so awful and terrible that, without dwelling on it for a moment, she went down to meet him with a bright and radiant face; and conscious of the presence of that spirit of falsehood and deceit in herself that she had come to know of late, she abandoned herself to that spirit and began talking, hardly knowing what she was saying.†
Part 2
Definition:
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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