Convenient

Examples

• The shortness of the mercury column as compared with that of water makes the mercury more convenient for both experimental and practical purposes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It's convenient to have you at all times ready on the premises. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• So convenient a thing it is to be a _reasonable creature_, since _it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner, in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The vote has become a convenient peg upon which to hang aspirations that are not at all sure of their own meaning. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• How very convenient! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• When it is convenient. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Quashy shall do my will, and not his, all the days of his mortal life, and have such chance of getting to heaven, at last, as I find convenient. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It has now been adopted by a great many business organizations as a convenient means of inter-communication. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Moreover, Lydgate did not like the consciousness that in voting for Tyke he should be voting on the side obviously convenient for himself. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Elizabeth could hardly help laughing at so convenient a proposal; yet was really vexed that her mother should be always giving him such an epithet. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Two doorways should be left by cutting out a single studding in each compartment upon the most convenient side. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• But now it is only necessary to have a convenient forest of almost any kind of wood to justify the establishment of a paper mill. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It is safe to say that electricity would never have been used on a large scale if some less expensive and more convenient source than zinc had not been found. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Acetylene is seldom used in large cities, but it is very widely used in small communities and is particularly convenient in more or less remote summer residences. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Nor are the rocks of the world in orderly layers one above the other, convenient for men to read. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Yes, I shouldn't wonder if they was convenient,' replied the gentleman, 'seeing that a few people live there, pretty snug. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Every foot of road had to be guarded by troops stationed at convenient distances apart. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Satan himself could not scare him, and he is convenient--very convenient. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Yours is a very modest and convenient sort of calumny, Major Dobbin, Rebecca said. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The general scheme, briefly outlined, is to prepare a model and plans of the house to be cast, and then to design a set of molds in sections of convenient size. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Oftentimes very convenient, no doubt, but never pleasing. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I hope, ma'am, the present residence, my mother's house, appears to you a convenient place of abode? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It was most convenient to Emma not to make a direct reply to this assertion; she chose rather to take up her own line of the subject again. Jane Austen. Emma.
• For they did not find it convenient to buy every part of it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Our sermon books are shut up when Miss Crawley arrives, and Mr. Pitt, whom she abominates, finds it convenient to go to town. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Geologists make certain main divisions of the Cainozoic period, and it will be convenient to name them here and to indicate their climate. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This, however, is thought to be a mere strain upon the text; for the words are these: 'that all true believers break their eggs at the convenient end. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The same violence which made it convenient to hoard, made it equally convenient to conceal the hoard. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Then it's not convenient to-night? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

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