I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there. From LearnThat.org. [Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 - 1859)]
A commodious harbor. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a commodious apartment. ,a commodious harbor. From Dictionary.com.
The head quarters at Newburgh consist of a single house, neither large nor commodious, which is built in the Dutch fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Camps and Firesides of the Revolution] Reference
"My bed is something like the carpets in Queen Elizabeth's time, and this shelter-tent is not one which can be called commodious, but. From Wordnik.com. [The Associate Hermits] Reference
The coach was a kind of commodious wagonette, invented by the modernist talent of the courier, who dominated the expedition with his scientific activity and breezy wit. From Wordnik.com. [The Wisdom of Father Brown] Reference
Varina, Iowa; and a commodious parsonage at Fonda. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
A large and commodious seminary for the Foreign. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
Wauna and I selected an easy and commodious carriage. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
Front-passenger leg - and head room was already commodious. From Wordnik.com. [2009 Frankfurt Motor Show: Mini Cooper Coupe and Roadster concepts] Reference
Some of the richest and most commodious convents of Europe are in Italy. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
Victoria, where the Eskimos built him a "commodious snow-hut in half an hour.". From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Elliott Hall is now the commodious and comfortable home of the Oak Hill family. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
When at anchor an awning in blue and white stripes affords a commodious shelter. From Wordnik.com. [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference
The wide door opened upon a commodious porch with two steps leading to the garden. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy-Alone] Reference
It would therefore be wise to make every effort to purchase more commodious quarters. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of a Trade School] Reference
Sestri, 8 to 12 frs., with commodious bathing establishment at the foot of the garden. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
I see you advertise 'three large and commodious steam-heated sample rooms in connection.'. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
The commodious back seat, with ample storage space underneath, can fit three burly fellows. From Wordnik.com. [ROAD TEST: HONDA RIDGELINE RTS] Reference
At the Superga station are waiting-rooms, and a few feet below them a commodious restaurant. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Plus, the trunk is commodious and can be further expanded by folding the 60/40-split rear seatbacks. From Wordnik.com. [Test complete: 2010 Ford Taurus] Reference
Now, though, we're used to riding high in a comfortable, commodious cabin and don't want to turn back. From Wordnik.com. [Should You Pay $6 Per Gallon?] Reference
It was commodious, it was elegant -- and it was therefore highly suitable to the people and the place. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
There are a few private residences, which the orthodox house-agent might style "handsome" or "commodious.". From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
But there were other wheels concealed in that commodious body, and these were quickly taken out and adjusted. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman at Bay Or, a Fiend in Skirts] Reference
It is said that Padstow had once a safe and commodious harbour, whose mouth was haunted by a beautiful mermaid. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
The Chinese occupy the next best part of the town, and many of them have built substantial and commodious houses. From Wordnik.com. [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference
He built a large and commodious dwelling for his residence on a beautiful spot, near the site of an abandoned Portuguese fort. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
In 1889 a commodious Girls 'Hall was built having ample facilities for carrying and boarding a considerable number of students. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
And the Jews that occupied the most commodious holds, received those that were driven out of Jerusalem, and attempted to make war. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 46: 2 Machabees The Challoner Revision] Reference
In this chair the physician seated himself after having installed his visitors each upon a commodious and comfortable Turkish divan. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
Houses built to rent in large cities were always in the form of a hollow square, inclosing a commodious and handsomely decorated park. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
General Hurlbut was in command there at the time and had his headquarters tents pitched on the lawn of a very commodious country house. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The residence buildings, beautiful and commodious structures, adjoined the observatory, and to each of us was given a separate apartment. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
Among the beautiful and commodious harbors that indent the southern coast of the island, this one was selected as being most easy of access. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
The bathing establishment is comfortable and commodious, and is pleasantly situated in a narrow wooded valley, about 400 ft. higher than Grenoble. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Some of these cellars are ordinary barn cellars, others -- large and commodious -- have been built under barns and greenhouses, purposely for the cultivation of mushrooms. From Wordnik.com. [Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure] Reference
In 1904 he secured the erection of a commodious chapel at Grant that, during the next five years, served also as the most convenient place for holding the neighborhood school. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
Though the courtyard is fairly commodious, it is packed with people, talking, gesticulating, pushing to get a better vantage point from which to view the bride when she alights. From Wordnik.com. [Have We No Rights? A frank discussion of the "rights" of missionaries] Reference
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