tenantable
Example Sentences
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By 7 A.M. it became evident that the cabin must soon go to pieces, and indeed it was scarcely tenantable then.
From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Arthur B. Fuller
The shade was not comfortable and within doors those apartments which denied entrance to the sun had to be made tenantable by braziers.
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller
The tenantable parts of the castle comprise the town-hall; a poor-house; a jail; a new market-house; numerous store-cellars; a blacksmith’s and other shops and habitations; a Roman Catholic chapel; and a pigeon-house.
From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by J. T. Barber
If any rent roll was to be derived from such a property there must be, in the first place, a large outlay in many ways before the land could be made profitable, or indeed tenantable.
From British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo by Sir W. H. (William Hood) Treacher
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
