All 5 Uses of
inhabitant
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- Their tops are battered, and broken, and blackened with smoke; and, here and there, some taller stack than the rest, inclining heavily to one side, and toppling over the roof, seems to mediate taking revenge for half a century's neglect, by crushing the inhabitants of the garrets beneath.†
Chpt 14
- Noggs has lived in this house, now going on for five years, and nobody has ever been to see him before, within the memory of the oldest inhabitant.'†
Chpt 15 *
- It is the conductor which communicates to the inhabitants of regions beyond its limit, the shock of pride of birth and rank, which it has not within itself, but derives from a fountain-head beyond; or, like the ligament which unites the Siamese twins, it contains something of the life and essence of two distinct bodies, and yet belongs to neither.†
Chpt 21
- It was; for the infant phenomenon, though of short stature, had a comparatively aged countenance, and had moreover been precisely the same ageānot perhaps to the full extent of the memory of the oldest inhabitant, but certainly for five good years.†
Chpt 23
- Having but one outlet, it was traversed by few but the inhabitants at any time; and the night being one of those on which most people are glad to be within doors, it now presented no other signs of life than the dull glimmering of poor candles from the dirty windows, and few sounds but the pattering of the rain, and occasionally the heavy closing of some creaking door.†
Chpt 57
Definition:
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(inhabitant) a person who lives in a particular place