Conveniences

Examples

• It was in vain to represent to her that some conveniences, tea perhaps included, resulted from this objectionable practice. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Why, he said, you should give them the ordinary conveniences of life. Plato. The Republic.
• For the conveniences of forage, the teams for supplying the army were kept at Harper's Ferry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But beside all this, the bulk of our people supported themselves by furnishing the necessities or conveniences of life to the rich and to each other. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Since that age, it is true, I had lived luxuriously, or at least surrounded by all the conveniences civilization afforded. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Merchants and traders in unarmed ships, who accommodate different nations by communicating and exchanging the necessaries and conveniences of life. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It is associated too much with the comforts and conveniences of life; too little with 'the goods of the soul which we desire for their own sake. Plato. The Republic.
• Thus we see that in the necessities and conveniences of life compressed air plays an important part. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The very essence of riches consists in the power of procuring the pleasures and conveniences of life. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Mr. Moore has, I believe, sent up for refreshments for the soldiers and others engaged in the defence, for some conveniences also for the wounded. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

Typist: Wesley