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It is perfectly certain that all diseases without exception are preventible, or if not so, that they can be so weakened as to do no harm.

From The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies by Besant, Walter, Sir

Few really comprehend the immense pecuniary loss, to say nothing of the amount of suffering, that we endure by this extra and easily preventible amount of sickness.

From Lectures on Ventilation Being a Course Delivered in the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia by Leeds, Lewis W.

Her husband humoured her, but secretly he took care that every preventible chance of a breakdown should be removed.

From Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers by Rutherford, Mark

Your Solicitor knows perfectly well that the Company is by law liable for damage done to woods; and, moreover, that such damage is preventible by proper care on the part of its servants.

From Canada and the States by Watkin, E. W. (Edward William)

On this dark, tempestuous night, be the cause what it may, preventible or otherwise, the Ganges drifted helplessly to her fate.

From Heroes of the Goodwin Sands by Treanor, Thomas Stanley