All 4 Uses of
dwell
in
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Six o'clock struck on the bells of the church that was so conveniently near to Mr. Utterson's dwelling, and still he was digging at the problem.†
p. 14.8 *
- Presently after, he sat on one side of his own hearth, with Mr. Guest, his head clerk, upon the other, and midway between, at a nicely calculated distance from the fire, a bottle of a particular old wine that had long dwelt unsunned in the foundations of his house.†
p. 39.6
- As for the moral turpitude that man unveiled to me, even with tears of penitence, I cannot, even in memory, dwell on it without a start of horror.†
p. 81.3 *
- It was on the moral side, and in my own person, that I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both; and from an early date, even before the course of my scientific discoveries had begun to suggest the most naked possibility of such a miracle, I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved day-dream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.†
p. 84.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(dwell as in: Don't dwell on it.) to think, communicate, or let attention stay on (or return to) something for a prolonged period
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(2)
(dwell as in: It dwells in the forest.) make one's home in; or to live in; or to stay (in a place)
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(3)
(dwelling as in: a modest dwelling) a house or shelter in which someone lives