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Her students were ready to move on, but she dwelled on and on about Chapter 7.

I will not dwell on the experience because it causes us all terrible discomfort.  (source) Lois Lowry, The Giver, 1993

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997

They were usually pictured peeking from behind their lace curtains to see the comings and goings of the apartment dwellers.†  (source) Firoozeh Dumas, Funny in Farsi, 2003

Inside dwells a den of superstition: jars of dark liquids, unlabeled pain remedies, molasses, tablespoons stuck to the wood, something marked, in Latin, belladonna, something else marked with an X The transmitter is poor, high-frequency: probably salvaged from a Russian tank.†  (source) Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See, 2014

For years he had dwelled on that walk across the park.†  (source) Ian McEwan, Atonement, 2001

"Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness," he quoted.†  (source) Homer Hickam, October Sky, 1998

I mean, my sister had become a humanoid underground dweller.†  (source) Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, 2007

How secret art thou who dwellest in the highest heavens in silence, O thou only great God, sprinkling with an unwearied Providence certain penal blindnesses upon such as have unbridled desires!†  (source) Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Essays, 1850

I spend the night half-sitting, half-lying next to Peeta, refreshing the bandage, and trying not to dwell on the fact that by teaming up with him, I've made myself far more vulnerable than when I was alone.  (source) Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, 2008

"She's fine," he said without dwelling on his wife.  (source) Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, 1976

It said this over and over again, and as it dwelt on it, anxiety mounted in every heart that heaved on a bamboo bed that night.  (source) Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, 1958

From Calydon expell'd, He pass'd to Argos, and in exile dwell'd; The monarch's daughter there (so Jove ordain'd) He won, and flourish'd where Adrastus reign'd; There, rich in fortune's gifts, his acres till'd, Beheld his vines their liquid harvest yield, And numerous flocks that whiten'd all the field.†  (source) Homer, The Iliad, -850 B.C.

Their family has dwelled in that valley for ten generations.

They would dwell side by side in the house of the dead.  (source) Madeline Miller, Circe, 2018

You might belong in Gryffindor, Where dwell the brave at heart,  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997

As the great arctic explorer and Nobel laureate Fridtjof Nansen points out, "these remarkable voyages were …. undertaken chiefly from the wish to find lonely places, where these anchorites might dwell in peace, undisturbed by the turmoil and temptations of the world."  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

The cloves and saccharine, themselves disgusting enough in their sickly way, could not disguise the flat oily smell; and what was worst of all was that the smell of gin, which dwelt with him night and day, was inextricably mixed up in his mind with the smell of those.  (source) George Orwell, 1984, 1949

"But value dwells not in particular will," said the Savage.  (source) Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932

...dwelling still in the lands that we gave them long ago...  (source) J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954

I do not know this, a cave dweller would have had a fire by now, a Cro-Magnon man would have a fire by now, but I don't know this.  (source) Gary Paulsen, Hatchet, 1987

Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan... (13:12)  (source) The Bible, Genesis, 1611

Just like their whiskey, the marsh dwellers bootlegged their own laws—not like those burned onto stone tablets or inscribed on documents, but deeper ones, stamped in their genes.  (source) Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing, 2018

That the spirit of the Lord cannot dwell in an unclean vessel, and that no vessel is clean when it forsakes God and relies on man.  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

He thought he might gag if he dwelt on its taste.†  (source) David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, 2008

They believed that I was the monster that dwells in what they call the Chamber of Secrets.  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1998

We searched the entire valley and did not find her dwelling.

I still didn't know what long-neglected dwelling that line referred to, or where to look for it.  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

Go immediately to your dwelling at the conclusion of Training Hours each day.  (source) Lois Lowry, The Giver, 1993

Fred had "rescued" the brilliant orange, fire-dwelling lizard from a Care of Magical Creatures class and it was now smouldering gently on a table surrounded by a knot of curious people.  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1998

And the bombed sites where the plaster dust swirled in the air and the willow-herb straggled over the heaps of rubble; and the places where the bombs had cleared a larger patch and there had sprung up sordid colonies of wooden dwellings like chicken-houses?  (source) George Orwell, 1984, 1949

Clayborn Lockett, an archaeologist who briefly employed Ruess as a cook while excavating an Anasazi cliff dwelling in 1934, told Rusho that "he was appalled by the seemingly reckless manner in which Everett moved around dangerous cliffs."  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

She flipped through the pictures of the Indian pueblos and the ancient cliff dwellings until she came to the postcard of the largest and finest auditorium in New Mexico: the Seth Hall Gymnasium at Santa Fe High School.†  (source) Julie Otsuka, When the Emperor Was Divine, 2002

They took several wrong turns and ended up at dead ends or at some ramshackle dwelling.  (source) Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing, 2018

After selecting a few possible sites, the task force stayed for a brief rest at a village where most of the inhabitants still lived in traditional cave dwellings.†  (source) Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem, 2008

Unlike Nadia, he felt in part guilty that they and their fellow residents were occupying a home that was not their own, and guilty also at the visible deterioration brought on by their presence, the presence of over fifty inhabitants in a single dwelling.  (source) Moshin Hamid, Exit West, 2017

Just beyond the mosque was a series of attached single-storey dwellings with small shaded porches.†  (source) Yann Martel, Life of Pi, 2001

That for stealing pumpkins from a field, and for kindling a fire in a dwelling they three shall be seated in the stocks from one hour before the Lecture till one hour after.  (source) Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, 1958

It was autumn, and Laila could make out people in bright tunics on the roofs of mud brick dwellings laying out the harvest to dry.†  (source) Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, 2007