All 16 Uses of
dwell
in
Look Homeward, Angel
- They turned into a sordid little road, unpaved, littered on both sides with negro shacks and the dwellings of poor whites.†
Chpt 3dwellings = houses or shelters in which people live
- There were a few frame houses by the roadside: the dwellings of negroes and poor white people, but these became sparser as they mounted.†
Chpt 3 *
- And he would reproach them bitterly, as he dwelt on his own merit and the worthlessness of his sons: "Other men's sons support their fathers in their old age—not mine!†
Chpt 1
- And she bought him a little bank, into which his reluctant fingers dropped a portion of his earnings, and from which he got a certain dreary satisfaction from time to time by shaking it close to his ear and dwelling hungrily on all the purchasable delight that was locked away from him in the small heavy bullion-clinking vault.†
Chpt 1
- Guy Doak had already hardened into the American city-dweller's mould of infantile cynicism.†
Chpt 2
- No evil dwelt in her.†
Chpt 2
- It looted the bottomlands of the river; it floated iron and wooden bridges from their piers as it might float a leaf; it brought ruin to the railway flats and all who dwelt therein.†
Chpt 2
- Then, for the first time, he thought of the lonely earth he dwelt on.†
Chpt 3
- Perhaps, he thought, if he were splendid enough, she would not see the ugly disorder and meanness of the world he dwelt in.†
Chpt 3 *
- All the young beauty in the world dwelt for him in that face that had kept wonder, that had kept innocency, that had lived in such immortal blindness to the terror and foulness of the world.†
Chpt 3
- I'm not as blind as you think, you know—" She nodded with significant jocularity, her big smiling face drenched in the curious radiance and purity that occasionally dwelt so beautifully there.†
Chpt 3
- They lived in a private dwelling on the edge of the campus, in a large bright room decorated with a great number of college pennants, all of which belonged to Bob Sterling.†
Chpt 3
- There lay in him something that could not be seen and could not be touched, which was above and beyond him—an eye within an eye, a brain above a brain, the Stranger that dwelt in him and regarded him and was him, and that he did not know.†
Chpt 3
- Brooding thus on the vision of his own beauty, stirred by his own heroic music, with misty eyes, he would pass over into the forbidden settlement, with its vigilant patrols of naval and military police on the watch for their own, and prowl softly down a dark little street to a dingy frame house with drawn blinds, where dwelt a love that for three dollars could be bought and clothed with his own fable.†
Chpt 3
- Behind her white face dwelt this horror, but she made no confession, no complaint.†
Chpt 3
- His eyes were blind with tears; he tried to speak, to get into a word, a phrase, all the pain, the beauty, and the wonder of their lives—every step of that terrible voyage which his incredible memory and intuition took back to the dwelling of her womb.†
Chpt 3
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
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)