devisable
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Stolberg offers him the favorablest terms devisable: "Withdraw freely, with all your honors, all your properties; only withdraw!"
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 by Thomas Carlyle
The room was superb with flowers; the menu the best devisable; the wines not wide of range, but choice of vintage.
From Success A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Would to heaven that we had a sieve; that we could so much as fancy 135any kind of sieve, wind-fanners, or ne plus ultra of machinery, devisable by man that would do it!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various
Would to Heaven that we had a sieve; that we could so much as fancy any kind of sieve, wind-fanners, or ne-plus-ultra of machinery, devisable by man, that would do it!
From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Thomas Carlyle
Would to Heaven that we had a sieve; that we could so much as fancy any kind of sieve, wind- fanners, or ne-plus-ultra of machinery, devisable by man, that would do it!
From Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle
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