tenantable
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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
In the case of houses for occupation, the tenant would have to keep the house in a tenantable state of repair during the term, and deliver it up in like condition.
From The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton
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
The shade was not comfortable and within doors those apartments which denied entrance to the sun had to be made tenantable by braziers.
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller
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