tenantable

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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 Fuller, Arthur B.

No weapon, no matter how ingenious, is of utility in warfare unless it can be relied upon, and no vessel that is not tenantable can be expected to render any service at sea.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887 by Various

Three or four times in twenty years the outgoing tenant will make good his dilapidations, and the house-agent will put the premises into tenantable repair—as these things are settled for us by lawyers and surveyors.

From Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society by Various

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 Poe, Edgar Allan

Scarcely had they begun to construct their cabins, when they were surprised by the rigors of an untried climate; their habitations being enveloped in 367 snow before they were tenantable....

From Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 by Raymond, W. O. (William Odber)