"Inhabit" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... progress of his work by the irregular payments of the workmen, appears to have practised one of his own comic plots to put the debts on the hero himself; while the duke, who had it much at heart to inhabit the palace of his fame, but tutored into wariness under the vigilant and fierce eye of Atossa,[62] would neither approve nor disapprove, silently looked on in hope and in grief, from year to year, as the work proceeded, or as it was left ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli
... of those other little creatures that are found to inhabit the Water for some time, do not, at certain times, take wing and fly into the Air, others dive and hide themselves in the Earth, and so contribute to the increase both of the ...
— Micrographia • Robert Hooke
... of this pigment must therefore be due to its mechanical detachment from the paper; but has it ever been conclusively proved that persons who inhabit rooms the wall-paper of which is stained with emerald-green suffer from arsenical poisoning? If it does occur, then the effects of what may be termed homoeopathic doses of this substance are totally different from the effects which ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 • Various
... centrepoint of all the universe? And yet it is not so. The ends for which they give away their priceless youth, for all they know, may be chimerical or hurtful; the glory and riches they expect may never come, or may find them indifferent; and they and the world they inhabit are so inconsiderable that the mind ...
— Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson • Robert Louis Stevenson
... our nearest ally of the true Honey bee, is the Humble bee (Bombus), of which over forty species are known to inhabit ...
— Our Common Insects - A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, - Gardens and Houses • Alpheus Spring Packard
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