How To Use Commodious In A Sentence
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[Footnote 1: The King, Walagambahu, who in his exile had been living amongst the rocks in the wilderness, ascended the throne after defeating the Malabars (B.C. 104), and "caused _the of stone or caves of the rocks_ in which he had taken refuge to be made more commodious.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
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The two ends put together form one constant table for everything, and the centre piece stands exceedingly well under the glass, and holds a great deal most commodiously.
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The commodious hall was almost full and on the makeshift stage musical instruments were being installed and tested by the accompanists.
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My bed is something like the carpets in Queen Elizabeth's time, and this shelter-tent is not one which can be called commodious, but
The Associate Hermits
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Although it measures just 13 1/2 feet square, the dining room feels more commodious thanks to a pair of tall windows on the outside wall and the wide arch that opens to the living room.
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For my own part, however, I cannot but wonder, since he had divined and predicted that heterogeneous matter could be discharged by the course he indicates, why he could not or would not perceive, and inform us that, in the natural state of things, the blood might be commodiously transferred from the lungs to the left ventricle of the heart by the very same route.
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
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A set of rooms next to mine was vacant, and Campion, who welcomed a new worker, had the two sets thrown into what house-agents term a commodious flat.
Simon the Jester
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However, being derived from a car designed to be driven by granddads in hats there's no shortage of headroom in the front, while being a four-door saloon it's quite commodious for average size adults in the back too.
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The new car has a more commodious cabin than the old model, particularly in the rear.
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The palace building was commodious enough to accommodate chambers and offices of the High Court.
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The caravanserai is a big, commodious affair, a quadrangular structure of brick surrounding fully an acre of ground, and with a small open space outside.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
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In a commodious alcove, in a glow of pink light from above, was a life-sized group of musicians -- statues in colored metal of a Spanish girl playing a mandora, an Italian with a slender calascione, a Russian playing his jorbon, and an African playing a banjo.
The Changing Sun
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The door opened on to the pleasant, commodious room shared by the Armstrongs, an excuse for a small sitting-room led off to the right.
THE SOUND OF MURDER
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And therfore this as the rest breadeth no hinderance to this most commodious discouery.
The Worldes Hydrographical Discription
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The present situation constitutionally is more of an incommodious interregnum.
Archive 2009-05-01
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Upon hearing the news, neighbor Amy Seidenwurm headed over to the store, donned her bee suit, and bravely herded the bees to a cardboard box, transferring them to "greener pastures where the flowers are dripping with nectar and hives are clean and commodious.
Boing Boing
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A commodious dwelling house with a spacious garden that included a fish pond, was also part of the property.
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And the rods are commodiously arranged on either side of the ankles, so as not to interfere with the position of the limb; and the wound is easily examined and easily arranged.
On Fractures
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Having said this in his First Book of Good Deeds, he says again, that both commodiousness and grace pertain to mean or indifferent things, none of which according to them, is profitable.
Essays and Miscellanies
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A year ago the necessities of Alfred Waltham's affairs had led to a change; he and his wife and their two children, together with Mrs. Waltham the dowager, removed to what the auctioneers call a commodious residence on the outskirts of Belwick.
Demos
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It was being pulled down to make way for a larger, more commodious building.
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Spenser, sought diligently to compose in the quantitative metres of the classics; Puttenham, the author of one of the first English treatises on the Art of Poetry (1589), declared that by "leisurable travail" one might "easily and commodiously lead all those feet of the ancients into our vulgar language"; but while they may have satisfied themselves
The Principles of English Versification
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A commodious dock box can be one of the most effective ways to reduce wasted fuel by giving you a place to store unneeded gear.
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The coach was a kind of commodious wagonette, invented by the modernist talent of the courier, who dominated the expedition with his scientific activity and breezy wit.
The Complete Father Brown
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'commodious' by 'commodious as a college building' without altering our conclusion; though we can guess that the recipient, who thought he was in the lion-house of the Zoo, would be less likely to assent to.
The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919
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The house is old fashioned and irregular, but lodgeable and commodious.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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Part of the "commodiousness" of a building should be how it serves people who may never enter it.
Frank Gruber: Urban Design, the Book: Part Two of a Review
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The door opened on to the pleasant, commodious room shared by the Armstrongs, an excuse for a small sitting-room led off to the right.
THE SOUND OF MURDER
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Apartment buildings and individual apartments must be commodiously planned with well-designed kitchens and baths, soundproofed walls and floors, ample daylighting, reliable elevators, well-appointed public spaces and attractive landscaping.
How to make rentals more attractive as the American dream evolves, adapts
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The door opened on to the pleasant, commodious room shared by the Armstrongs, an excuse for a small sitting-room led off to the right.
THE SOUND OF MURDER
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I found the suites capacious, the sofas commodious, the sandwiches copious.
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In battle, in travelling, and on other occasions, this added much to the commodiousness and grace of the costume.
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Upended, paneled inside and out with mirrors that made its bulk disappear, and outfitted with two bare bulbs at the apex, it had an intentionally incommodious opening the size of a small door.
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The change, indeed, was an unpleasant one, from a large, commodious house, to what they called a castle, which was, in fact, a most loathsome prison.
Memoirs of Aaron Burr
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Howsoever, pure water is best, and which (as Pindarus holds) is better than gold; an especial ornament it is, and very commodious to a city (according to [2908] Vegetius) when fresh springs are included within the walls, as at Corinth, in the midst of the town almost, there was arx altissima scatens fontibus, a goodly mount full of fresh water springs: if nature afford them not they must be had by art.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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To close the tale, about three months after the battle of Nancy, the banished Earl of Oxford resumed his name of Philip son, bringing with his lady some remnants of their former wealth, which enabled them to procure a commodious residence near to Geierstein; and the Landamman’s interest in the state procured for them the right of denizenship.
Anne of Geierstein
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He did so, and after passing through some of the intricate avenues common in old houses, was ushered into a small apartment, commodiously fitted up, in which he found Father Buonaventure reclining on a couch, in the attitude of a man exhausted by fatigue or indisposition.
Redgauntlet
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She was permitted, nay encouraged, to make use of all the rooms, so elegantly and commodiously furnished, in Bluebeard Castle, with one exception.
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He was unmarried and so had no use of the commodious house in the College to which he was entitled, but lived in rooms there.
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For in nature as in simple bodies, when there is an accumulation of much superfluous matter, it very often moves by itself and makes a purgation which is healthy to that body; and so it happens in this compound body of the human race, that when all the provinces are full of inhabitants so that they cannot live or go elsewhere in order to occupy and fill up all places, and when human astuteness and malignity has gone as far as they can go, it happens of necessity that the world purges itself in one of the three ways, so that men having been chastised and reduced in number, live more commodiously and become better.
Discourses
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However, being derived from a car designed to be driven by granddads in hats there's no shortage of headroom in the front, while being a four-door saloon it's quite commodious for average size adults in the back too.
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The escalator opened onto a commodious red velvet lounge, in which there was a large oak bar lining one wall and already quite a few customers.
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He adds, therefore, p. 276, “To say that God putteth a case in such solemnity and emphaticalness of words and phrase as are remarkable all along in the carriage of the place in hand, of which there is no possibility that it should ever happen or be exemplified in reality of event, and this in vindication of himself and the equity of his dealings and proceedings with men, is to bring a scandal and reproach of weakness upon that infinite wisdom of his which magnifies itself in all his works; which also is so much the more unworthy and unpardonable when there is a sense commodious, every way worthy as well the infinite wisdom as the goodness of God, pertinent and proper to the occasion he hath in hand, which offers itself plainly and clearly.”
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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As a 15th century merchant's home, it would have proved most commodious.
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Our little party now separated, and got into two post-chaises, each of which hold three persons, though it must be owned three cannot sit quite so commodiously in these chaises as two: the hire of a post-chaise is a shilling for every English mile.
Travels in England in 1782
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a commodious building suitable for conventions
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Many older drivers shy away from the growing breed of commodious, family-orientated ‘people carriers’.
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The chief hotel at Sherton – Abbas was an old stone-fronted inn with a yawning arch, under which vehicles were driven by stooping coachmen to back premises of wonderful commodiousness.
The Woodlanders
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The first European to set eyes on the island, he was sorry to go, ‘leaving the said land with much regret because of its commodiousness and beauty, thinking it was not without some properties of value’.
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It was in the commodious attic of this house that she created her private museum.
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It is a very commodious and pleasant voyage, hauing on both sides of the riuers many great vilages, which they call Cities: in the which hennes, pigeons, egges, milke, rice, and other things be very goode cheape.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Located by London's Temple Bar, this bank was old-fashioned, dark and incommodious.
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incommodious hotel accommodations
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It would obviously be a more commodious property in Berkshire…
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We can, as to the house, live here commodiously enough; and our only present consideration is, on what we are to live: a consideration, however, which as lovers, I believe in strictness we ought to be much above!
The History of Emily Montague
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So the film finishes and we lie and chat amiably in my big commodious bed.
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Mr Keith, the collector of Excise here, my old acquaintance at Ayr, who had seen us at the fort, visited us in the evening, and engaged us to dine with him next day, promising to breakfast with us, and take us to the English chapel; so that we were at once commodiously arranged.
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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Beyond it, in the corner of the room, sat a commodious armchair.
THE PROMISE IN A KISS
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The houses are usually log-cabins, of various degrees of comfort and commodiousness.
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Beyond it, in the corner of the room, sat a commodious armchair.
THE PROMISE IN A KISS
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So in the wood and the hollows he hid a number of archers and spearmen, confident that the commodiousness of the place would allure the Romans.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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To close the tale, about three months after the battle Nancy, the banished Earl of Oxford resumed his name of Philipson, bringing with his lady some remnants of their former wealth, which enabled them to procure a commodious residence near to Geierstein; and the Landamman's interest in the state procured for them the right of denizenship.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 373, Supplementary Number
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But the beauty, the greatness, the glory — Mr. Meagher employed the word "majestic" to describe these mute but far from personality-free bar workers — of Old Town's urinals is that they're almost as commodious as a stall.
Porcelain Majesty
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The commodiousness of money is indeed great; but there are some advantages which money cannot buy, and which therefore no wise man will by the love of money be tempted to forego.
A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
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Period photographs and other documents reveal that he built a commodious house on the island.
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Their habitation was not merely respectable and commodious, but even dignified and imposing.
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I found the suites capacious, the sofas commodious, the sandwiches copious.
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If you haven't been to a rock show at a small club lately, it might be hard to imagine how incommodious an experience it can be.
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The particular application of these distinctive characters may more commodiously be reserved for another place.
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The lines of these striking poems move antiphonally, weaving the commodious arcs of deliberation for which Donahue strives to understand the world.
TERRA LUCIDA by JOSEPH DONAHUE
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Beyond it, in the corner of the room, sat a commodious armchair.
THE PROMISE IN A KISS
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At each end of the vessel is a raised deck, forming tolerably commodious quarters for officers and men; and the forecastle is made to carry one or two heavy guns.
Her Majesty's Ship Majestic Keeping Watch over the Steam-Rams in the Mersey.
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It was very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious.
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_ A commodious harbour, where people lie at anchor in perfect security, as _The Queen's Bench, -- The Fleet_, the sight of which is
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841
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The new house, with an entrance with sidelights and paneled pilasters, is more commodious although somewhat less elegant than Johnston's previous home.
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We sit rent free in a handsome and commodious building, and with our occupancy ensured by a parliamentary title.
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The spatial image can be transcribed very briefly and commodiously in the form of a map.
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We had a pleasing conviction of the commodiousness of civilization, and heartily laughed at the ravings of those absurd visionaries who have attempted to persuade us of the superior advantages of a state of nature.
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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For water, it is walled and guarded with ye ocean most commodious for trafficke to all parts of the world, and watered with pleasant fishful and navigable rivers, which yeeld safe havens and roads, and furnished with shipping and sailers, that it may rightly be termed THE LADY OF THE SEA.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
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a commodious harbor
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Nay, the owner himself will abandon his new grubbed clearage so soon as, by his cultivation, he has rendered it commodious for a less enterprising husbandman; once more he presses into the wilderness; again makes space for himself in the forests; in recompense of that first toiling a double and treble space; on which also, it may be, he thinks not to continue.
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy
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At the end of the bridge leading into the shrubbery there was a stile, high indeed, but made commodiously with steps, almost like a double stair case, so that ladies could pass it without trouble.
The American Senator
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The boot is spacious with the seats in place and really commodious when they are tipped over.
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In so great a siccity of devotion as we see in these days, we have a thousand and a thousand colleges that pass it over commodiously enough, expecting every day their dinner from the liberality of Heaven.
The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 07
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“The boundless extent of territory we possess, the wholesome temperament of our climate, the luxuriance and fertility of our soil, the variety of our products, the rapidity of the growth of our population, the industry of our countrymen, and the commodiousness of our ports” had caused “a jealousy of our dawning splendor.”
Alexander Hamilton, American
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Many of the words were strange – commodious, oculist; the phrases unusual – jolly friends; the foods strange - jellied consommé.
The Sign of the Twisted Candles | The Stiletto Gang
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The apartment is not commodious enough for us.
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If your lifestyle dictates that two-up in a drop-top is a non-runner, be thankful that two friends can at least sit in the back of the German cabrio for short periods and the car has a commodious saloon-like boot.
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A feluca is large enough to take in a post-chaise; and there is a tilt over the stern sheets, where the passengers sit, to protect them from the rain: between the seats one person may lie commodiously upon a mattress, which is commonly supplied by the patron.
Travels through France and Italy
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Whilst some of the old back-to-back dwellings which still exist may be less commodious than the subject of the article, this house is indeed the smallest through dwelling now to be found in Barnoldswick.
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The harbors are very marvels of commodiousness, that of Port Jackson, the entrance to Sydney, being fifteen miles long.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
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There are 15 villas, total 228 suites with deluxe view of mountain and ocean commodious balcony.
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Agricola by men of experience, that never had any captain more sagely chosen his stations for commodiousness and situation; for that no place of strength founded by him, was ever taken by violence, or abandoned upon articles or despair.
The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola
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Inside the commodious house, yellow leather couches are well arranged and classical music is soothingly emanating from the family hi-fi.
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But the commodiousness of the plain was not the only reason for making the selection.
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But it is certainly mysterious and incongruous that blood should be supposed to be most commodiously drawn through a set of obscure or invisible ducts, and air through perfectly open passages, at one and the same moment.
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
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In particular, there are two whole islands that bear that name; both of which, beside the ruins which they exhibit, are distinguished among the group for their commodiousness, their pleasant appearance, and the productive richness of their soil, no less than for their retired situation.
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Eight men were gathered around a black-tinted, glass, rectangle table in the middle of an unlit commodious hall that was suitable for conventions.
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At Chatsworth, I met young Mr. Burke, who led me very commodiously into conversation with the Duke and Duchess.
The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
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Be careful this incommodious fate does not befall you.
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The head quarters at Newburgh consist of a single house, neither large nor commodious, which is built in the Dutch fashion.
Camps and Firesides of the Revolution
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The tower seemed rather incommodious to live in.
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It was one of the broadest prairies of the West, where no human habitation would be endangered by the flames, and where a vast assemblage of spectators might commodiously admire the show.
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Do not then any longer fear to part with thine existence, it will at least put an end to those richly merited torments thou hast inflicted on thyself; _Death, in delivering the earth from an incommodious burthen, will also deliver thee from thy most cruel enemy, thyself_.
The System of Nature, Volume 1