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.

Vast sums of money must be expended before it can be made tenantable.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 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

At the close of the month it is stated on reliable authority, that the number of buildings actually tenantable was greater than before the conflagration.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

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 Carr, John, Sir