Moveable
['mʊvəbəl]
Examples
- This figure is moveable, separable, and divisible. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It was indeed a moveable pair of stairs, the lowest end placed at ten feet distance from the wall of the chamber. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Another excels in making the frames and covers of their little huts or moveable houses. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Mr Locke remarks a distinction between money and other moveable goods. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Secondly, In Pennsylvania there is no right of primogeniture, and lands, like moveables, are divided equally among all the children of the family. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The sale of moveables, when it is ordered by a court of justice, is subject to the like duty of two and a-half per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The only evidence of her last return now, were the scantier moveables in his room, and the grayer hair upon his head. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
Edited by Abraham