All 3 Uses of
dwell
in
A Christmas Carol
- ...the people made a rough, but brisk and not unpleasant kind of music, in scraping the snow from the pavement in front of their dwellings, and from the tops of their houses, whence it was mad delight to the boys to see it come plumping down into the road below, and splitting into artificial little snow-storms.
Chpt 3dwellings = homes
- ... and on the threshold of the door the Spirit smiled, and stopped to bless Bob Cratchit's dwelling with the sprinkling of his torch.
Chpt 3 *dwelling = home
- They entered poor Bob Cratchit's house; the dwelling he had visited before; and found the mother and the children seated round the fire.
Chpt 4
Definition:
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(dwelling as in: a modest dwelling) a house or shelter in which someone lives