devisable
Example Sentences
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The room was superb with flowers; the menu the best devisable; the wines not wide of range, but choice of vintage.
From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins
Would to Heaven that we had a sieve; that we could so much as fancy any kind of sieve, wind- fanners, or ne-plus-ultra of machinery, devisable by man, that would do it!
From Past and Present by Carlyle, Thomas
Would to Heaven that we had a sieve; that we could so much as fancy any kind of sieve, wind-fanners, or ne-plus-ultra of machinery, devisable by man, that would do it!
From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas
When once any soul is truly enlightened, it cannot but put forth every devisable effort to compel the attention of others.
From The Authoritative Life of General William Booth by Railton, George S. (George Scott)
Would to heaven that we had a sieve; that we could so much as fancy 135any kind of sieve, wind-fanners, or ne plus ultra of machinery, devisable by man that would do it!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various
