inhabitiveness

They have a strong attachment to the places connected with their earlier associations, -- what in phrenology is called inhabitiveness; -- and the pride of remaining in one family of masters, and of being transmitted to its posterity with all their own generations, is one of the most remarkable features in these negro clans.

Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. II. 1832

a composition of what phrenologists call inhabitiveness and locality equally and largely developed.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton Thomas Wright 1897

The bump on the head of the Negro that the phrenologists call "inhabitiveness" is very prominent; he is not naturally migratory -- "content to bear the ills he has, than fly to those he knows not of."

Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century Mifflin Wistar Gibbs 1885

He says, “The thoroughbred wanderer’s idiosyncrasy, I presume to be a composition of what phrenologists call inhabitiveness and locality equally and largely developed.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

He says, "The thoroughbred wanderer's idiosyncrasy, I presume to be a composition of what phrenologists call inhabitiveness and locality equally and largely developed.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906

On the spot phrenologists have located inhabitiveness, instead of a bump he has a hollow.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

But I think she has inhabitiveness to a great degree.

Memories of Hawthorne Rose Hawthorne Lathrop 1888

Mr. Jackson had kicked Sinful Peck once too often; but not knowing that it was once too often, had immediately turned his back, and received thereat the sharp corner of a bible on his bump of inhabitiveness, which bump responded in its function; for Mr. Jackson showed no immediate desire to move from the place where he fell.

"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888

And it is much to be deplored that the place to which you devote so considerable a portion of the whole term of your natural life, should be so sadly destitute of anything approaching to a cosy inhabitiveness, or adapted to breed a comfortable localness of feeling, such as pertains to a bed, a hammock,

Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

And it is much to be deplored that the place to which you devote so considerable a portion of the whole term of your natural life, should be so sadly destitute of anything approaching to a cosy inhabitiveness, or adapted to breed a comfortable localness of feeling, such as pertains to a bed, a hammock, a hearse,

Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855