All 22 Uses of

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The Gunslinger

He had passed the last town three weeks before, and since then there had only been the deserted coach track and an occasional huddle of border dwellers' sod dwellings.†
Chpt 1

He had passed the last town three weeks before, and since then there had only been the deserted coach track and an occasional huddle of border dwellers' sod dwellings.†
Chpt 1

The huddles had degenerated into single dwellings, most inhabited by lepers or madmen.†
Chpt 1 *

The dweller, a surprisingly young man with a wild shock of strawberry hair that reached almost to his waist, was weeding a scrawny stand of corn with zealous abandon.†
Chpt 1

The mule let out a wheezing grunt and the dweller looked up, glaring blue eyes coming target-center on the gunslinger in a mo-ment He raised both hands in curt salute and then bent to the corn again, humping up the row next to his hut with back bent, tossing devil-grass and an occasional stunted corn plant over his shoulder.†
Chpt 1

It landed on the dweller's head and roosted, talons firmly twined in the wild thatch of hair.†
Chpt 1

They looked at each other, a sudden depth of feeling between them, the dweller upon his dust-puff-dry ground, the gunslinger on the hardpan that shelved down to the desert.†
Chpt 1

The forests had been gone long now, replaced by the monotonous flat country: endless, desolate fields gone to timothy and low shrubs, shacks, eerie, deserted estates guarded by brooding, shad-owed mansions where demons undeniably walked; leering, empty shanties where the people had either moved on or had been moved along, an occasional dweller's hovel, given away by a single flickering point of light in the dark, or by sullen, inbred clans toiling silently in the fields by day.†
Chpt 1

The gunslinger was not a man to dwell on the past; only a shadowy conception of the future and of his own emotional make-up saved him from being a creature without imagination, a dullard.†
Chpt 2

He was amazingly light, as dehydrated as a No-vember leaf from their long walk through the desert Around him Roland could feel the presence that dwelt in the circle of stones, whirring with a jeal-ous anger-its prize had been taken from it When the gunslinger passed out of the circle, the sense of frustrated jealousy faded.†
Chpt 3

The west end faced the mountains and the hut-dwellers; beyond that, the tangled barbarian forests; and beyond that the desert.†
Chpt 4

Definitions:

(dwell as in: Don't dwell on it.)
to think, communicate, or let attention stay on (or return to) something for a prolonged period