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Usage examples of passable.

They located two roads, neither passable by now, one track leading to a shallow pit where many tons of apatite had been removed.

The young men went out hunting as usual, and I went out and found Birdie, and on her brought in four other horses, but the snow balled so badly that I went out and walked across the river on a very passable ice bridge, and got some new views of the unique grandeur of this place.

I had already seen half a hundred of girls, whom the town pronounced to be pretty, and who did not strike me as even passable.

Your Exaltedness knows, the locks are being reconstructed to be passable for steam riverboats.

Cyrus Harding, Herbert, Gideon Spilett, Neb, and the sailor were soon collected on the shore, at a place where the channel left a ford passable at low tide.

The priest of the temple of Serapis offered me a service of opaline glass, but I sent it to Servianus, with whom, out of regard for my sister Paulina, I tried to keep passable relations, at least at a distance.

Then, a messenger had struggled through to recall them to Zalt, because the Lan-achronans had attacked Salcer with more than ten companies, but the Fortieth Company squads had to wait until the roads were passable.

Dawn on Dalriada revealed a passable simulacrum of gigantic male urogenital organs, taking a leak into the reservoir forty meters below.

Zzadarray, Ebenth, Cathenn, and Marchell, Catswold dominated, were separated from the eleven belt nations by the Hell Pit and by dense masses of stone passable only through a long, tedious tunnel.

Cocking an eye at his earnest phiz, which was passable, but no pin-up, I would have said that she was overpricing him.

With the coach along, they were perforce obliged to take the roada longer, much more circuitous route than that cross-country one which, though much shorter, was passable for most of its length only to feet or hooves, and then so only in snowless seasons.

Servilia, assured that she looked passable if not as unruffled as she had some hours before, took her departure.

That second road ran through flat country and led to the passable fords that crossed the Coa further south.

As Iome had guessed, the walls were pitted with burrows from pocket crabs, but the tunnel seemed passable.

Nevertheless, it was a passable imitation, though bearing a closer kinship to the subsidence formations of the Martian Tithonius Lacus than to the hydrologically formed Grand Canyon of Arizona.