tenantable
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It was a fantastic chateau, much dilapidated, and indeed scarcely tenantable through age and neglect.
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 by Edgar Allan Poe
In 1837, not one third of the public school-houses in Massachusetts would have been considered tenantable by any decent family out of the poor-house or in it.
From Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes by Ira Mayhew
Brunow lived off Regent Street, in a garret handsomely furnished and tenantable, but stuffy and confined to my notions, used as I had been to the open-air life of a soldier on active service.
From In Direst Peril by David Christie Murray
In view of the fact that Herrenius Capito had traced the bankrupt to Jerusalem, Jerusalem was no longer tenantable for the bankrupt.
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller
When the tenant had done these things, had made the land tenantable, the rent was raised.
From The New Irish Constitution by J. H. Morgan
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