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  • McCandless spoke frequently to the denizens of the Slabs about his plans for Alaska.†  (source)
    denizens = people or animals that inhabit or frequently visit a particular place
  • Despite the hour, the Kremlin shimmered with electric light from every window, as if its newest denizens were still too drunk with power to sleep.†  (source)
  • There was nothing in Madcap Magic for Wacky Warlocks....nothing in A Guide to Medieval Sorcery ....not one mention of underwater exploits in An Anthology of Eighteenth-Century Charms, or in Dreadful Denizens of the Deep, or Powers You Never Knew You Had and What to Do with Them Now Youve Wised Up.†  (source)
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  • "You're going to work where?" was her comment; point being, as it unfolded, that AnooYoo was a collection of cesspool denizens who existed for no other reason than to prey on the phobias and void the bank accounts of the anxious and the gullible.†  (source)
    denizens = people or animals that inhabit or frequently visit a particular place
  • They shouted angrily, as righteous in their outrage as churchgoers might be outraged at a filthy and drunken denizen of the streets who staggered into their service to sag against the chancel rail and vomit on the sanctuary floor.†  (source)
    denizen = a person or animal that inhabits or frequently visits a particular place
  • SOMETIMES SOMEONE from the press would descend on Saeed and Nadia's camp or work site, but more often denizens would themselves document and post and comment online upon what was going on.†  (source)
    denizens = people or animals that inhabit or frequently visit a particular place
  • The branches interfered and it was darker under the trees than it had been out in the open; nevertheless he could see, prowling around the tree, the denizen that had favored him with attention.†  (source)
    denizen = a person or animal that inhabits or frequently visits a particular place
  • The denizens of Joffrey's court had striven to outdo each other today.†  (source)
    denizens = people or animals that inhabit or frequently visit a particular place
  • It had been days since he had thought about anything but food ....food and how to keep his skin intact, how to drink without laying himself open to ambush, how to sleep without waking up in a fellow-denizen's belly.†  (source)
    denizen = a person or animal that inhabits or frequently visits a particular place
  • She knew plenty about this forest, knew that the denizens of this place had once been faeries: gnomes, sprites, nymphs, goblins, more names than anyone could count or remember.†  (source)
    denizens = people or animals that inhabit or frequently visit a particular place
  • Inquire thou wouldst, Who of this light is denizen, that here Beside me sparkles, as the sun-beam doth On the clear wave.†  (source)
    denizen = a person or animal that inhabits or frequently visits a particular place
  • I was what Mommy called a "Little Kid," one of five young'uns, microscopic dots on the power grid of the household, thus fit to be tied, tortured, tickled, tormented, ignored, and commanded to suffer all sorts of indignities at the hands of the "Big Kids," who didn't have to go to bed early, didn't believe in the tooth fairy, and were appointed denizens of power by Mommy, who of course wielded ultimate power.†  (source)
    denizens = people or animals that inhabit or frequently visit a particular place
  • Am I then fated—I, a denizen of earth—to be placed face to face with these representatives of long extinct families?†  (source)
    denizen = a person or animal that inhabits or frequently visits a particular place
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