All 6 Uses of
dwell
in
Gone with the Wind
- The backwoods folks and the swamp dwellers owned neither horses nor mules.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- She had left not only that graceful dwelling but also the entire civilization that was behind the building of it, and she found herself in a world that was as strange and different as if she had crossed a continent.†
Chpt 1.3
- Scarlett looked up at the lovely old dwelling facing on the square and could have cried.†
Chpt 4.34
- The shiny carriages of Yankee officers' wives and newly rich Carpetbaggers splashed mud on the dilapidated buggies of the townspeople, and gaudy new homes of wealthy strangers crowded in among the sedate dwellings of older citizens.†
Chpt 4.37
- Here and there were wide gaps between the buildings on the main street where dwellings had been shelled or burned.†
Chpt 4.39 *
- Scarlett thought it quite the ugliest dwelling she had ever seen but, to Melanie, Twelve Oaks in all its grandeur had not been more beautiful.†
Chpt 4.41
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