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By contrast, Aristotle believed that color inhered in objects.

From Salon • Nov. 16, 2024

Further indication of this inhered in the wide yawn, of which he was in mid-enjoyment, when a hand on his shoulder cut short his ecstasy.

From Average Jones by Adams, Samuel Hopkins

He pointed to the well-accepted medicinal virtues which inhered in gems.

From Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967 by Bodemer, Charles W.

Strange, that in a nation in which was born and in which has inhered all the indomitableness of individualism should be so long unable to understand the secret of personal liberty!

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Whatever problems might have inhered in that question when women were personally subject to their families or their husbands are well-nigh outgrown in all civilized countries, and entirely so in the most advanced.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Harper, Ida Husted