Makes livable, as a house

Usage examples of furnishes.

It furnishes a strong contrast to the rolling woodlands of the far east, and to the boundless prairies of the middle west.

It makes an oasis in the desert that is an agreeable change from the surrounding barrenness, and furnishes its owner, if properly utilized, a comfortable subsistence for himself and herds.

After his day's work is done he repairs to the ranch house, or to some outlying camp, whichever happens to be nearest when night overtakes him, for every large ranch has one or more such camps posted at some convenient point that furnishes temporary shelter and refreshment, where he rests and eats his frugal meal with a relish that only health and rough riding can give.

It affords every needed comfort for a family and is in striking contrast with the common ranch house of the range that is minus every luxury and often barely furnishes the necessaries of life.

The mesquite bean furnishes a superior article of food and feeds about everything that either walks or flies on the desert.

Any one who needs a change, other things being equal, should seek a resort that furnishes pure, soft water rather than choose a spring that only boasts of its mineral properties.

Nevertheless it is an exceedingly interesting region and furnishes many attractions.

The climate of the southwest furnishes just what such invalids require.

The North of Europe furnishes subjects enough for comparison with them, and for a proof of their equality.

The quiet of Europe at this moment furnishes little which can attract your notice.

Your own country furnishes the most aliment for Natural History, Botany & Physics & as you express a fondness for the former you might make it your principal object, endeavoring however to make yourself more acquainted with the two latter than with other branches likely to be less useful.

Yet I think history furnishes as many examples of a single usurper arising out of a government by a plurality, as of temporary trusts of power in a single hand rendered permanent by usurpation.

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

It furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.

It is his human environment which influences his mind and his feelings, furnishes him his ideals, and sets him on his road and keeps him in it.