Hobson's choice, as water was not to be found anywhere else at a come-at-able distance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference

The next evening, two hampers, containing, as our purveyor assured us, "very prime 'uns," arrived at my rooms "from Mr S----, the wine merchant;" and, by daylight on the following morning, were judiciously distributed throughout all the come-at-able premises within the college walls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference

After these came a second set; among the most come-at-able of whom were Mr.. and Miss Bates, and Mr.. Goddard, three ladies almost always at the service of an invitation from Hartfield, and who were fetched and carried home so often, that Mr. Woodhouse thought it no hardship for either James or the horses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emma]

But the old knight, look you, is not come-at-able.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin Hood] Reference

Or “at-able,” — as we now say, — “she is come-at-able?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher] Reference

After these came a second set; among the most come-at-able of whom were.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emma] Reference

It is come-at-able from Cork by train to Bantry and then coach, or by coach from Killarney or Kenmare.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway] Reference

He might sacrifice something for the first, but the latter were too plentiful and too come-at-able to be worth great cost.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Crooked Path A Novel] Reference

All which Crabstick knew, and would often declare her missus to be "of all missuses the most slyest and least come-at-able.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eustace Diamonds] Reference

All which Crabstick knew, and would often declare her missus to be “of all missuses the most slyest and least come-at-able.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eustace Diamonds] Reference

Lord S — was a professed debauchee, — Charlotte a young and friendless beauty, whose present situation presented her as come-at-able.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ashton Priory] Reference

The objection to it is obvious: you do not rely a thing; therefore the thing cannot be reliable; it should be rely-on-able (like come-at-able).    From Wordnik.com.  [Formations.] Reference

In the meantime Tom Scott's affairs did not render it convenient for him to be come-at-able, and he absented himself, while they were being settled, in the Isle of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series)] Reference

In the meantime Tom Scott's affairs did not render it convenient for him to be come-at-able, and he absented himself, while they were being settled, in the Isle of Man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Walter Scott]

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 Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II.] Reference

Some are fishing, others are pitching pennies, others, again, playing various apparently harmless games, but all with eyes for the main chance -- an opportunity to steal anything come-at-able.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures.] Reference

Greenwich, but such was not the case: before steamboats made Greenwich so come-at-able there were many families of distinction who resided there and in its environs -- especially in the autumn of the year, when the river offered much amusement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poor Jack] Reference

After these came a second set; among the most come-at-able of whom were Mrs. and Miss Bates and Mrs. Goddard, three ladies almost always at the service of an invitation from Hartfield, and who were fetched and carried home so often that Mr. Woodhouse thought it no hardship for either James or the horses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emma] Reference

It may be supposed that she was not likely to meet with such people as she solicited at such a town as Greenwich, but such was not the case: before steamboats made Greenwich so come-at-able there were many families of distinction who resided there and in its environs -- especially in the autumn of the year, when the river offered much amusement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poor Jack] Reference

Accordingly, while Chips and Sails again undertook to climb the cliff and procure some bananas for breakfast, Cunningham and I, accompanied by the boatswain -- who seemed, after a good night's rest, to be little the worse for the happenings of the previous day -- agreed to wade off and board the wreck, with the view of securing such weapons and ammunition as were come-at-able, and had not been spoiled by sea water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turned Adrift] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona] Reference

He said: "The whole length of Gippsland, from the bore of the mountains in which the road comes, is 110 miles, and the breadth about fifteen miles, the whole area 1650 square miles, one-third of which is useless through scrub and morass, which leaves only 1,100 square miles come-at-able at all, and nearly a third of this is useless.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned] Reference

The sovereign power must be come-at-able.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English Constitution] Reference

He's the most come-at-able man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Her father`s daughter] Reference

It is come-at-able from Milltown-Malbay or.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway] Reference

Or 'at-able,' -- as we now say, -- 'she is come-at-able?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Remains, Volume 2] Reference

'Japonicadom,' 'come-at-able,' and 'stay-at-home-ativeness.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference