All 8 Uses of
dwell
in
The Souls of Black Folk
- The dwellings were scattered rather aimlessly, but they centred about the twin temples of the hamlet, the Methodist, and the Hard-Shell Baptist churches.†
Chpt 4 (definition 1) *
- So, wed with Truth, I dwell above the Veil.†
Chpt 6
- The general character and arrangement of these dwellings remains on the whole unaltered.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- In the civilized life of to-day the contact of men and their relations to each other fall in a few main lines of action and communication: there is, first, the physical proximity of home and dwelling-places, the way in which neighborhoods group themselves, and the contiguity of neighborhoods.†
Chpt 9
- First, as to physical dwelling.†
Chpt 9 *
- It is usually possible to draw in nearly every Southern community a physical color-line on the map, on the one side of which whites dwell and on the other Negroes.†
Chpt 9
- —for where, O God! beneath thy broad blue sky shall my dark baby rest in peace,—where Reverence dwells, and Goodness, and a Freedom that is free?†
Chpt 11 (definition 2) *
- If somewhere in this whirl and chaos of things there dwells Eternal Good, pitiful yet masterful, then anon in His good time America shall rend the Veil and the prisoned shall go free.†
Chpt 14 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (dwelling as in: a modest dwelling) a house or shelter in which someone lives
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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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(dwell as in: Don't dwell on it.) to think, communicate, or let attention stay on (or return to) something for a prolonged period