dwelt
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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When I was 12 my grandmother brought a singing teacher to hear me sing ‘I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls.’
From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2015
For example, the suitor in “Eveline” takes the title character, a shop girl, to see the opera “The Bohemian Girl,” which features the aria “I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls.”
From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2014
In the vale of Tawasentha, In the green and silent valley, By the pleasant water-courses Dwelt the singer Nawadaha.
From The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks by Walworth, Ellen H.
Troops of retainers fed These flocks and herds, and their subsistence drew From the same lord,—so that this man of Uz Greater than all the magnates of the east, Dwelt in old time before us.
From Man of Uz, and Other Poems by Sigourney, Lydia Howard
A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that's good and all that's fair: Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James
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