tenantable

Example Sentences

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In view of the fact that Herrenius Capito had traced the bankrupt to Jerusalem, Jerusalem was no longer tenantable for the bankrupt.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth

The tenantable parts of the castle comprise the town-hall; a poor-house; a jail; a new market-house; numerous store-cellars; a blacksmith’s and other shops and habitations; a Roman Catholic chapel; and a pigeon-house. 

From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by Barber, J. T.

Brunow lived off Regent Street, in a garret handsomely furnished and tenantable, but stuffy and confined to my notions, used as I had been to the open-air life of a soldier on active service.

From In Direst Peril by Murray, David Christie

If any rent roll was to be derived from such a property there must be, in the first place, a large outlay in many ways before the land could be made profitable, or indeed tenantable.

From British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo by Treacher, W. H. (William Hood), Sir

When the tenant had done these things, had made the land tenantable, the rent was raised.

From The New Irish Constitution by Morgan, J. H.