Both Uses of
dwell
in
Dracula
- Seeing, I suppose, some expression in my face strange to him, he added, "Ah, sir, you dwellers in the city cannot enter into the feelings of the hunter."
p. 25.6dwellers = people who live (in a specified place)
- There have been from the loins of this very one great men and good women, and their graves make sacred the earth where alone this foulness can dwell.
p. 256.9 *dwell = live
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