come-at-able
Example Sentences
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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 Laughton, John Knox
It is come-at-able from Cork by train to Bantry and then coach, or by coach from Killarney or Kenmare.
From The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway by Praeger, Robert Lloyd
I shall begin immediately after the holy week, for until the forestieri, of which there are a fabulous number, have gone to their respective summer quarters, neither piano nor masters are in any way come-at-able.
From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I by Barrington, Mrs. Russell
Julia, sitting over the fire, finding she cannot get Dulce to gossip with—Dulce, indeed, is not come-at-able of late—turns gratefully to Portia, who happens to come into the room at this moment.
From Portia or By Passions Rocked by Duchess
All which Crabstick knew, and would often declare her missus to be "of all missuses the most slyest and least come-at-able."
From The Eustace Diamonds by Trollope, Anthony
