He would have a far better chance of understanding some
dweller in Paris or Rome, Berlin or Madrid, than these countrymen of his who have lived for the last two thousand years not two hundred miles from the City of London.
How vastly different from the flat and puny area of the circumscribed vision of the
dweller upon the outer crust!
Let me hear just what you have to say, as though I were an ordinary
dweller here.
There is a gentle hum of life which pervades a closely-settled country, so deep and constant that one ceases to observe it, as the
dweller by the sea loses all sense of the constant
As the sun was to the outside
dweller, this wall was to him the sun of his world.
The discovery of the electric telegraph in 1844 brought almost every important part of Europe, and eventually of the world, nearer to every town
dweller than the nearest county had been in the eighteenth century; and the development of the modern newspaper out of the few feeble sheets of 1825 (dailies and weeklies in London, only weeklies elsewhere), carried full accounts of the doings of the whole world, in place of long-delayed fragmentary rumors, to every door within a few hours.
Or Cyllene's lord, or Bacchus,
dweller on the hilltops cold?
The Selenites* disputed variously about our earth, and expressed their doubts if it could be inhabited: the air, they said, must certainly be too dense to allow any rational
dweller in the moon the necessary free respiration.
I had slept late, and I stepped outside with sudden energy, bent upon making up lost time as befitted a
dweller on Endeavour Island.
The ears hung at different angles, negligently; and the macabre figure of that mute
dweller on the earth steamed straight up from ribs and backbone in the muggy stillness of the air.
Yes, there is reason, because there is natur', in what he says," observed the trapper: "but, friend, you have said you were a
dweller in the camp of one Ishmael Bush?
So sudden and violent had been the change of fortune, that the
dwellers in the older cabins had not had time to change with it, but still kept their old habits, customs, and even their old clothes.
