Example Sentences

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The custom of the shop fell off, because a story got abroad that she soured her small beer and other damageable commodities, by scowling on them.

From House of the Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

And I, to this hower, neither by worde, deede, or thought, haue bene, any way, hurtfull, damageable, or iniurious to you, or yours?

From The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara by Dee, John

By ten Babcock's men were bracing the outer sheathing of the coffer-dam, strengthening the derrick-guys, tightening the anchor-lines, and clearing the working-platforms of sand, cement, and other damageable property.

From Tom Grogan by Smith, Francis Hopkinson

Even before it is clearly known whether the innovation be damageable or not, the judge is competent to issue a prohibition to innovate until the point can be determined.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

Ashton took the dishes down to sand-scour them at the pool, while Blake saw that everything damageable was disposed safe from the knife-like fangs of the coyotes.

From Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation by Brehm, George