Example Sentences

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Something more solid and homely she would have considered "beaucoup plus convenable."

From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte

Ha! ha! ha! what a face she made when his Highness led you out on to the balcony, and I asked her if she thought it convenable for you!

From A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hay, Marie, Hon. (Agnes Blanche Marie)

Next to Charles Lamb, but at a convenable distance, Izaak Walton was Tom Folio's favorite.

From Ponkapog Papers by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey

Even a provincial knows it is not convenable for an old woman to wear a brown wig.

From The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes by Zangwill, Israel