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He will be at once the servant of concrete and compassable ideals and their possessor and enjoyer.

From The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance by Sellars, Roy Wood

He lives in another world—has, as Sir Anthony Absolute says, a sun and moon of his own—a realm of fairies, with attending sprites to perform his every compassable wish.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841 by Various

Our other book was much more compassable and more widely circulated.

From The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London by Allen, P. S. (Percy Stafford)

If we do, our objects are plain and compassable.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

Yet exhibition of its tombstone, were such exhibition compassable, could not fail to bring her honour and respect.

From Deadham Hard by Malet, Lucas