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Definition of Occupants
1. occupant [n] - See also: occupant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Occupants
Literary usage of Occupants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"A settlement cannot be made upon public land already occupied; as against existing
occupants, the settlement of another is ineffectual to establish a ..."
2. Martin's Mining Law and Land-office Procedure: With Statutes and Forms by Theodore Martin (1908)
"Entry by town authorities in trust for occupants. It is provided in another
section,8 that whenever any portion of the public lands has been, or may be, ..."
3. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"Painless Hours"—A Child's Idea of Heaven—"Who Will Mind the Baby" — Flowers in
Heaven —The Morgue —Its Silent occupants — The Prisoners' Cage—Weeping ..."
4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... apart from the noise of the street, and lifted far above the river; that room
opulent and subtle with the astral shapes of past occupants,—Longfellow, ..."
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