come-at-able
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Our country spirit at home is perhaps the most entirely wholesome; but as that is not come-at-able, Rhenish or a white wine of Burgundy will be next best.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
"As to that, Bengal is more come-at-able than the Great Bear," said he, laughing.
From Barrington Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever
If this picture is not come-at-able, I shall be happy to send that I have here, of which you will acquaint me, and send particular directions of the place and time it may be expected.
From Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. by John Knox Laughton
He might sacrifice something for the first, but the latter were too plentiful and too come-at-able to be worth great cost.
From A Crooked Path A Novel by Mrs. Alexander
Poor girl! she was barely fifteen, and without this consent her little amount in the funds was not come-at-able until five immeasurable summers had “dragged their slow length along.”
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
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