And groans, that rage of racking famine spoke, Where looks inhuman dwelt on festering heaps!
This woman dwelt in Dorsetshire, Her hut was on a cold hill-side, And in that country coals are dear, For they come far by wind and tide.
Jupiter and his Mighty Folk had not always dwelt amid the clouds on the mountain top.
The king of Calydon was named OEneus, and hedwelt in a white palace with his wife Althea and his boys and girls.
In that forest there dwelt a robber giant, called Club-carrier, who was the terror of all the country.
He said that close by a grove of pine trees, which he would soon pass on his way down the slope, there dwelt a robber named Sinis, who was very cruel to strangers.
Caron stirred on the couch where Duhamel was tending him, and raised his head to glance at the man who was voicing the doctrines that for years had dwelt in his heart.
But within his soul there dwelt in that hour no such musty subject as the metaphysical dreams of old Rousseau.
His advent would, probably, but serve to cast a gloom upon them, considering the conditions under which he came, with the signs of violence upon his face to remind them of the lords of life and death who dwelt at the Chateau up yonder.
The old, poetic melancholy that had dwelt in the secretary's countenance was now changed to strength and firmness.
Yet a nervous strength dwelt unsuspected in those lean arms and steely wrists.
Nearer she felt herself drawn to her tormentor, in whose thoughts there dwelt now little recollection of the vengeful character of his purpose.
She still wanted to protest that some affection for him dwelt in her heart, although curbed (to a greater extent even than she was aware) by the difference in their stations, and checked by her plighted word to Ombreval.
The Father's will was his will, and as the result quiet dwelt with Christ.
How assuredly I felt that Christ dwelt in me, and I in him; and how daily did I walk in the comforts of the Holy Ghost, and was edified and refreshed in the multitude of peace.
The Tabernacle, which was first erected, was his more especial and favorite field of labor, and he dwelt in the house adjoining it, which is still the pastoral residence.
None cultivated their lands, all dwelt in wigwams, and Samson was one of the very first of the tribe who learned to read.
The Milesians in the south agreed to a long truce of three hundred years; and came and dwelt in amity with the Dedannans, for they too loved the sweet and wonderful music of the white swans that were the children of Lir.
She shall be solitary and apart as the Crane of Innisbea, that has dwelt upon its isle since the world was made, and is seen of none.
I learned, and that he dwelt in Colmogro, and Gabriel dwelled in the towne of Cola, which is not far from the riuers mouth.
For it is not the Apostles' writings, but the spirit that dwelt in them, that did inspire their hearts, which gives life and peace to all.
The mythical Robin Hood was an outlaw, the most gentlemanly and pious and liberal of outlaws, and he dwelt with his trained yeomen in Sherwood forest, Nottinghamshire, or in Barnsdale in Yorkshire.
Far away in the marshes, in the dark and solemn land where dwelt the Jotuns, the giants who warred against God's people, lived the grim and ferocious Grendel, more terrible than any of his brethren.
At this time there dwelt in Burgundy, on the Rhine, a young princess of such rare virtue and beauty that noble youths had come from every land to win her as a bride.
But there was nothing in the past whichdwelt so deeply or lived again so often in his memory.
Thanks to Madame and Phebe, the house was kept in exquisite order, saving Felicita the shock of seeing the rooms she dwelt in dingy and shabby.
He recollected how Phebe spoke, as if her thoughts dwelt more on his father's sorrow and sad death, than on his sin; and Alice would be the same.
The one human being who really dwelt in her inmost heart was her boy Felix, her first-born child.
The darkness that had dwelt so long in the heart of Felicita began now to cast its gloom over the whole household.
We have, however, dwelt too long on points like these.
The character of this and of each epoch will be dwelt on more at length as it comes before us for special consideration, as well as the social or religious phenomena which influenced the modes of thought or expression.
Nisard's second volume of the Poètes de la Décadence, and confining ourselves principally to such points as he has not dwelt upon.
The germs of this fine thought are found in the historian Polybius, who dwelt on the grandeur of such a joint influence, and perhaps through his intercourse with the Scipionic circle, gave the idea currency.
Among his masters was Diophanes of Mitylene, who dwelt at Rome, and paid the penalty of his life for his friendship for his pupil.
We have dwelt fully on Seneca because he is of all the Claudian writers the one best fitted to appear as a type of the time.
The effects of this belief aredwelt on by Lucan in one of his most effective passages, [18] which is greatly borrowed from Caesar.
But beneath that quiet and frail exterior, there dwelt a firm and dauntless spirit.
And better than all within her earthly form dwelt a noble and heroic soul.
Her personation of boy characters, her dancing of the "champion jig," were particularly dwelt upon with fervid but unmistakable admiration.
He not only dwelt upon Scott's deeds and example, as known to Sandy Bar, but spoke of facts connected with his previous career, hitherto unknown to his auditors.
Edward Everett had established the North-American Review, and though he had now just left the editorial chair, his spirit dwelt in it, and his fame lingered around it.
The first had begged and blarneyed his way from Long Island, where he had been wrecked; the second was a liberated slave; and the last was the vestige of a tribe which dwelt of yore in a swampy tract, the name of which I have forgotten.
When she was singing, his eye dwelt upon her; his ear catching and seeming to relish every tone.
I sometimes felt a strange thrill as she passed; but this only seemed to render the recesses where she dwelt still more inviting.
In the contiguous town of Lower Salem dwelt an aged minister, by the name of Mead.
These animals were the real buffalo, who dwelt underground, and some of them came up to this earth and increased here to many herds.
Some of the Mialṵcka dwelt underground or in the water, sitting close to the bank of the stream.
When the owner dwelt in an earth-lodge, the horse-tail was tied to a long pole, which was thrust through the opening at the top of the lodge.
This belief, he says, is found in its highest stage among tribes that formerly dwelt in British North America, between Hudsons Bay and the Great Lakes.
For there surely dwelt the good King and the bad King, the younger son and the three princesses, the dwarf, the giant and the gnome.
So he dwelt a second on the word "but" and glanced at Peronella, who came to his aid only too gladly, and with consummate impudence took up the tale.
Whence it came to pass that the Catholic institutions daily gained strength, and all the Scots that dwelt in England either conformed to these or returned into their own country.
And when he came there, he hired a lodging next door to the house of ill-fame where dwelt his niece, and he sought opportunity to meet and speak with her, but could not.
Eucherius, "made Lerins the paradise of those who dwelt thereon.
In Heliopolis, a city near Lebanon, dwelt Cyril, a deacon.
He desired to preach the gospel to the people who dwelt by the river Yssel.
This was due to the fact that in no foreign city where Germans dwelt and did business were they treated with such marked hospitality and consideration as in Antwerp.
I have dwelt upon these details, revolting as they are, because I wish to drive home the fact that the only victims of this air-raid on Antwerp were innocent non-combatants.
The spirit of Ruth, the same that had dwelt of old in a Miriam or a Deborah, was roused at the man's insolent audacity.
To them Lysias said nothing about the news from Antioch, which it would be better, he thought, to conceal as long as possible; but he dwelt on the useless hardships which they were all enduring.
Then the deputy called to one Menahem, a usurer that dwelt in the village, and one of those who would sell their souls for a shekel.
You know Mattathias, the son of Asmon, and the five young men, his sons, how they dwelt at Modin?
So they dwelt for many a day, waxing by the favour of God both numerous and learned, until by ill-hap they hearkened into evil counsel and called upon the God without just reason.
In Saharanpur, hark ye, dwelt a woman, rich, prosperous and childless, and unto her I gave this prayer telling her to soak it in water once a month and drink thereafter.
Could there indeed be mirth anywhere--nay, so near at hand--while such woe dwelt in the house I had left?
Ilion and the towers of Pergamus had not yet been reared; the people dwelt low in the valley.
But all he had seen last night in that terrible walk dwelt in his mind.
And in a lonely damp meadow, on the bank of a stream, dwelt she whose existence was inseparably bound up with my happiness.
Pluizer told Johannes many a long tale of those who dwelt within, of the sufferings which were endured there, and the struggle waged between misery and the love of life.
He had heard some one tell of Johannes, and of the house where he dwelt with his father from whom he had run away, and who was now dying.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dwelt" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
