All 11 Uses of
dwell
in
Death Comes for the Archbishop
- Down there the Indians do not dwell in wigwams, your Eminence," he added gently.†
Part Pro. *
- The priest's house was white within and without, like all the Isleta houses, and was almost as bare as an Indian dwelling.†
Part 3
- The white dwellings, two and three storeyed, were not scattered, but huddled together in a close cluster, with no protecting slope of ground or shoulder of rock, lying flat against the flat, bright against the bright,—both the rock and the plastered houses threw off the sun glare blindingly.†
Part 3 *
- He took the best of their corn and beans and squashes for his table, and selected the choicest portions when they slaughtered a sheep, chose their best hides to carpet his dwelling.†
Part 3
- There was a ladder before Jacinto's door which led up to a second storey, but that was the dwelling of another family; the roof of Jacinto's house made a veranda for the family above him.†
Part 4
- But that night the future troubled nobody; the house was full of light and music, the air warm with that simple hospitality of the frontier, where people dwell in exile, far from their kindred, where they lead rough lives and seldom meet together for pleasure.†
Part 6
- None of the pueblos would at that time admit glass windows into their dwellings.†
Part 7
- They comforted each other by recalling that St. Francis Xavier, when he set forth as missionary to India, had stolen away like this; had "passed the dwelling of his parents without saluting them" as they had learned at school; terrible words to a French boy.†
Part 9
- Though this nomad people were much slower to adopt white man's ways than the home-staying Indians who dwelt in pueblos, and were much more indifferent to missionaries and the white man's religion, Father Latour felt a superior strength in them.†
Part 9
- They believed that their old gods dwelt in the fastnesses of that canyon; like their Shiprock, it was an inviolate place, the very heart and centre of their life.†
Part 9
- Moreover, their gods dwelt there—in those inaccessible white houses set in caverns up in the face of the cliffs, which were older than the white man's world, and which no living man had ever entered.†
Part 9
Definitions:
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(dwelling as in: a modest dwelling) a house or shelter in which someone lives
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(dwell as in: Don't dwell on it.) to think, communicate, or let attention stay on (or return to) something for a prolonged period