All 29 Uses of
dwell
in
Riders of the Purple Sage
- Up in that dark grove dwelt a woman who had been his friend.†
Chpt 3
- This little dwelling-place was just outside the village limits, and the widow who lived there had to carry her water from the nearest irrigation ditch.†
Chpt 7
- But he knew they had been cut there by hand, and, though age-worn, he recognized them as steps cut in the rock by the cliff-dwellers.†
Chpt 8
- The cliff-dwellers had chipped and chipped away at this boulder fill it rested its tremendous bulk upon a mere pin-point of its surface.†
Chpt 8
- The cliff-dwellers, driven by dreaded enemies to this last stand, had cunningly cut the rock until it balanced perfectly, ready to be dislodged by strong hands.†
Chpt 8
- The cliff-dwellers never had to roll it.†
Chpt 8
- But it might serve another lonely dweller of the cliffs.†
Chpt 8
- Even in his hurry and concern Venters could not but feel its majesty, and the thought came to him that the cliff-dwellers must have regarded it as an object of worship.†
Chpt 9
- To his left, facing the stone bridge, an enormous cavern opened in the wall; and low down, just above the tree-tops, he made out a long shelf of cliff-dwellings, with little black, staring windows or doors.†
Chpt 9
- The few cliff-dwellings he had seen—all ruins—had left him with haunting memory of age and solitude and of something past.†
Chpt 9 *
- He had come, in a way, to be a cliff-dweller himself, and those silent eyes would look down upon him, as if in surprise that after thousands of years a man had invaded the valley.†
Chpt 9
- Beaver had not found a way into the valley by the trail of the cliff-dwellers, of that he was certain; and he began to have more than curiosity as to the outlet or inlet of the stream.†
Chpt 10
- Then yawned, quite suddenly and wonderfully above him, the great cavern of the cliff-dwellers.†
Chpt 10
- He had climbed a hundred rods inward, and yet he had not reached the base of the shelf where the cliff-dwellings rested, a long half-circle of connected stone house, with little dark holes that he had fancied were eyes.†
Chpt 10
- Venters had visited cliff-dwellings before, and they had been in ruins, and of no great character or size but this place was of proportions that stunned him, and it had not been desecrated by the hand of man, nor had it been crumbled by the hand of time.†
Chpt 10
- But the cliff-dwellers were gone!†
Chpt 10
- How many years had passed since the cliff-dwellers gazed out across the beautiful valley as he was gazing now?†
Chpt 10
- Why, there's an enormous cliff-dwelling just across here.†
Chpt 10
- But—haven't you ever seen a cliff-dwelling?†
Chpt 10
- Chiefly it was the present that he wished to dwell upon; but it was the call of the future which stirred him to action.†
Chpt 10
- In this home of the cliff-dwellers there were peace and quiet and solitude, and another thing, wondrous as the golden morning shaft of sunlight, that he dared not ponder over long enough to understand.†
Chpt 13
- Then Venters and Bess wandered farther, and, perhaps not all unconsciously this time, wended their slow steps to the cave of the cliff-dwellers, where she liked best to go.†
Chpt 13
- Bones of a cliff-dweller.†
Chpt 13 *
- Cliff-dwellers.†
Chpt 13
- Are we cliff-dwellers?†
Chpt 13
- Across the valley the huge cavern of the cliff-dwellers yawned in the glare, every little black window as clear as at noonday; but the night and the storm added to their tragedy.†
Chpt 13
- You know I told you the cliff-dwellers cut the rock, and why.†
Chpt 14
- And the more Venters dwelt on this possibility the more perturbed he grew.†
Chpt 16
- Both burros passed down the difficult stairs cut by the cliff-dwellers, and did it without a misstep.†
Chpt 21
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