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No amount of expectations-lowering guff—and Perry had exhausted the North American supply of it—could have saved him from what happened when he tried to name three abolishable Cabinet departments.

From Slate • Nov. 10, 2011

Another of his principles was cleanliness; "the speedy abolition of all abolishable filth is the first process of education."

From The Life of John Ruskin by Collingwood, W. G. (William Gershom)

And yet, as we said, Hope is but deferred; not abolished, not abolishable.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

Happily and unhappily poverty is not abolishable: "The poor ye have always with you" is a sentence that can never become unintelligible.

From The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 by Howes, S. O. (Silas Orrin)