Careful Words

dwell (n.)

dwell (v.)

From all who dwell below the skies

Let the Creator's praise arise;

Let the Redeemer's name be sung

Through every land, by every tongue.

Isaac Watts (1674-1748): Psalm cxvii.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour,

Content to dwell in decencies forever.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Moral Essays. Epistle ii. Line 163.

There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:

If the ill spirit have so fair a house,

Good things will strive to dwell with 't.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.

Shall I, like an hermit, dwell

On a rock or in a cell?

Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618): Poem.

  Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.

Old Testament: Psalm cxxxiii. 1.