Word: dwell
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...England bestowed upon him in 1697 full manorial privileges.* When he died in 1700, his large estate had been divided in his will among his four sons, seven daughters. The Van Cortlandt fort was changed into a manor house, where the male head of the family continued to dwell in lordly seclusion until 1917 when James Stevenson Van Cortlandt, Civil War veteran, died without issue...
...Then will our youth dwell in a land of health, amid fair' sights and sounds, and receive the good in everything." Plato: Republic...
...full term. Not one of them has been compelled to serve all the time for which he was sentenced. I leave no one there for more than two or three years and after that time the men released are not compelled to live in a certain place. They can dwell in any part of Italy they choose. Every day I receive petitions for pardon and one of them that I have just signed lies before me on my desk at this moment. When my daughter was engaged innumerable appeals of this kind were made, for, as you can understand, that...
...Others mocking said. These men are full of new wine. But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. . . . Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. . . . Then they...
Inside its portals, (Decked in Georgian heraldry), Two hundred mortals Dwell secure from ribaldry...