Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A simplified spelling of
dwell .
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Examples
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There be such store of this fish in the River Danubie, that Randelitius sayes, they may in some places of it, and in some months of the yeer, be taken by those that dwel neer to the
The Compleat Angler 2007
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Duke Baatu hath sixteene wiues, euery one of which hath one great house, besides other little houses, which they place behind the great one, being as it were chambers for their maidens to dwel in.
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They all die them selues with red, and eate apes fleshe, wherof thei that dwel in the mounteines haue great plentye.
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Ther dwel thei without feare of rage or ruine, of weather or of winde.
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Duke Baatu hath sixteene wiues, euery one of which hath one great house, besides other little houses, which they place behind the great one, being as it were chambers for their maidens to dwel in.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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_Error_ in the armes of hell, Crushing the triple Myter in disdaine, Which on the seauenfold mounted Witch doth dwel, Angells rewards for such dissignes remaine, And on heauens face men shall your stories tell; At this they shoute; as eager of the pray, As
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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If they knewe their strength no man were able to make match with them: nor they that dwel neere them should haue any rest of them.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Also we haue gratified all the English merchants with the house of one Vrie here in the Mosco right ouer against S. Maximes church behind the market, and they shal dwel in the same house according as before time, and they shall keepe one alwayes in the house to keepe it, either a Russe, or one of their owne people.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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This happeneth by meanes of the Crimme Tartar, that will neither himselfe plant Townes to dwel there, (liuing a wild and vagrant life) nor suffer the Russe (that is farre off with the strength of his Countrey) to people those parts.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Thus doing, you shal be most faire, most rich, most wise, most all: you shall dwel upon Superlatives.
Defence of Poesie 1992
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