come-at-able

Example Sentences

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It is come-at-able from Cork by train to Bantry and then coach, or by coach from Killarney or Kenmare.

From The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway by Praeger, Robert Lloyd

Poor girl!—she was barely fifteen, and without this consent, her little amount in the funds was not come-at-able until five immeasurable summers had "dragged their slow length along."

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 by Poe, Edgar Allan

I shall begin immediately after the holy week, for until the forestieri, of which there are a fabulous number, have gone to their respective summer quarters, neither piano nor masters are in any way come-at-able.

From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I by Barrington, Mrs. Russell

He might sacrifice something for the first, but the latter were too plentiful and too come-at-able to be worth great cost.

From A Crooked Path A Novel by Alexander, Mrs.

If this picture is not come-at-able, I shall be happy to send that I have here, of which you will acquaint me, and send particular directions of the place and time it may be expected.

From Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. by Laughton, John Knox