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inhabitant
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The Great Fire
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- Chamberlin's distaste for the area and its inhabitants was shared by a great many people living in the city's wealthier sections and would go a long way toward fixing the blame for the Great Fire.†
p. 31.8 *inhabitants = people (who live in a particular place)
- The wretched female inhabitants were rushing out almost naked, imploring spectators to help them on with their burdens of bed quilts, cane-bottomed chairs, iron kettles, etc. Drays were thundering along in the single procession which the narrowness of the street allowed, and all was confusion.†
p. 51.7
- In 1833, when the village of Chicago voted to incorporate, it was a muddy little trading post with fewer than 100 inhabitants.†
p. 131.8
- But by and large its inhabitants (mostly Irish, German, and Bohemian) were hardworking, honest people, who lived in modest frame houses of one and two stories.†
p. 134.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(inhabitant) a person who lives in a particular place
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)