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Next day we began to fit them up more commodiously.

From Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770. by Maxwell, Patrick

He also represented their canoes as being of a large construction, which would commodiously contain four or five families.

From Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. I by Mackenzie, Alexander

The chief Officers and Ladies attending the Princesses were also commodiously lodg'd.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

The latter are as well, as commodiously and even showily, lodged as the former can be, and the properties are as good.'

From The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 by Various

We looked anxiously around, in all directions, for a place in which we could commodiously halt for the night, but we saw no indication whatever of water. 

From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] by Huc, Evariste Regis