All 9 Uses
inhabitant
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The Graveyard Book
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- It's always easier to die gently, to wake in due time in the place you were buried, to come to terms with your death and to get acquainted with the other inhabitants.†
p. 15.7 *inhabitants = people (who live in a particular place)
- He had reserved for himself the best location on the hill— a natural amphitheater, with a view of the whole city and beyond—and had insured that the graveyard endured as a graveyard, for which the inhabitants of the graveyard were grateful, although never quite as grateful as Josiah Worthington, Bart.†
p. 21.1
- "He looks like my nephew Harry," said Mother Slaughter, and it seemed then as if the whole graveyard was about to join in, each inhabitant offering his or her own comparisons between the infant and someone long forgotten, when Mrs. Owens broke in.†
p. 24.9inhabitant = a person (who lives in a particular place)
- Bod would tell Scarlett whatever he knew of the inhabitants of the grave or mausoleum or tomb, and she would tell him stories that she had been read or learned, and sometimes she would tell him about the world outside, about cars and buses and television and aeroplanes (Bod had seen them flying high overhead, had thought them loud silver birds, but had never been curious about them until now).†
p. 44.3inhabitants = people (who live in a particular place)
- There was no reaction to this by the Indigo Man, which puzzled Bod even more because even the most irritable inhabitants of the graveyard had been calmed by this statement.†
p. 53.6
- He gave advice, cool, sensible, and unfailingly correct; he knew more than the graveyard folk did, for his nightly excursions into the world outside meant that he was able to describe a world that was current, not hundreds of years out of date; he was unflappable and dependable, had been there every night of Bod's life, so the idea of the little chapel without its only inhabitant was one that Bod found difficult to conceive of most of all, he made Bod feel safe.†
p. 68.6inhabitant = a person (who lives in a particular place)
- Truthfully, if you were to look at the inhabitants of the Washington Room that night, you would have no clearer idea of what was happening, although a rapid glance would tell you that there were no women in there.†
p. 166.3inhabitants = people (who live in a particular place)
- All around Bod, the inhabitants of the graveyard were waking and gathering, worried and alarmed.†
p. 263.1
- As Bod walked, he saw the inhabitants of the graveyard, but they let the boy and his guardian pass among them without a word.†
p. 290.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(inhabitant) a person who lives in a particular place
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)