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What then is to be said of the tenableness of such a position?

From On Compromise by Morley, John

Striking it is, that even Lessing should cling to such definitions and employ all his ingenuity to prove their tenableness.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig by Various

It was during this course of reading that for the first time a doubt came upon me of the tenableness of Anglicism, and by the end of August I was seriously alarmed.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

It was during this course of reading that for the first time a doubt came across me of the tenableness of Anglicanism.

From The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 by Church, R. W. (Richard William)