tenantable
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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
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
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 famed temple of the Goddess of Liberty, is not tenantable enough to cover the Babel Deity from the peltings of the midnight storm.
From The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. by Sir John Carr
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
