One thing, and one thing only, made the new position tolerable to them, and that was the prospect of securing to their own settlement the seat of Government.
Maids may either be broiled or fried; or if a tolerable size, the middle part may be boiled, and the fins fried.
Small fish do not answer, but if large or of a tolerable size, put half a fish in each roll.
For two tolerable flitches, dry a stone of salt over the fire, till it is scalding hot.
During frost or cold rain, draw the mats and cloths over the ranunculuses; give the anemones a little air in the middle of every tolerable day; and as soon as possible, uncover them all day, but draw on the mats at night.
Mix all as quick as possible, put it into very small pattipans, and bake in a tolerable warm oven, under twenty minutes.
The water is then drained off, the bread bruised fine, and mixed with as much new milk as will make it of a tolerable consistence.
Boil it up to a tolerable thickness; then add sugar, half a pint of good table beer, and a glass of gin, all heated up together.
This quantity will provide five or six persons with a tolerable meal.
Glass is another article that requires care, though a tolerable price is given for broken flint-glass.
The discovery of monomyary shells indicates with tolerable certainty the marine character of the deposit in which they are found, though their absence cannot be taken as proof of freshwater origin.
Myriopods, arachnids, insects and pulmoniferous gastropods have however been found with tolerable frequency.
He came about ten in the forenoon with a very respectable and well-dressed retinue, and a tolerable show of elephants and horses.
Tolerable bullocks, fit for use at the well and in the plough, would now cost much more.
We judge it unseemly and not tolerable that ministers shall be boarded in common alehouses or taverns.
Sir William Lucas had been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune and risen to the honour of knighthood by an address to the King, during his mayoralty.
How Wickham and Lydia were to be supported in tolerable independence, she could not imagine.
His behaviour to herself could now have had notolerable motive; he had either been deceived with regard to her fortune, or had been gratifying his vanity by encouraging the preference which she believed she had most incautiously shewn.
It needed all Jane's steady mildness to bear these attacks with tolerable tranquillity.
On the gentlemen's appearing, her colour increased; yet she received them with tolerable ease, and with a propriety of behaviour equally free from any symptom of resentment, or any unnecessary complaisance.
Elizabeth's mind was now relieved from a very heavy weight; and, after half an hour's quiet reflection in her own room, she was able to join the others with tolerable composure.
Camilla now had not a word to say; the subject dropt; she took up a book, and by earnest internal remonstrances, commanded herself to appear at tea-time with tolerable serenity.
The generous and sentimental Eugenia never ceased her kind offices, and steadily wore an air of tolerable cheerfulness all day, though her pillow was nightly wetted with tears for her unfortunate lot.
Dunghill Fowls, are from their frequent use, a tolerable proof of the former birds.
Harvest and Summer Pear are a tolerable desert, are much improved in this country, as all other fruits are by grafting and innoculation.
From his grandparents he inherited a certain moderate sum of money--not more than sufficient to give him a tolerable start in life.
Shelley frequently dwells upon self-contempt as one of the least tolerable of human distresses.
If it does, I shall send you a volume in a year or two, for I know the Italian way of life well, and in time may know it yet better; and as for the verse and the passions, I have them still in tolerable vigour.
It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city.
By going over all these particulars, you may receive some tolerable satisfaction about this great subject.
Our adventurers passed a tolerable night among the sipos of the seringa.
After waiting for two hours in the hall of the Metropolitan, like a client in some patrician antechamber, they did accord me a tolerable room on the sublimest story.
Tonight he was clearly on the track of something, though he gave us a very tolerable dinner.
But she had seriously thought, as she came down in the train today and planned her fresh activities at home of trying to master them, so that she could get through their intricacies with tolerable accuracy.
By this time Georgie had got a tolerable inkling of the import of all this.
I hope you don't mean that nothing but bread and butter talk is tolerable to a woman!
The truth is, the only dandies who are tolerable are those whose dandyism is a cloak of reserve.
The deflation, temporary perhaps, of the Novel has been proceeding for some years; the absence of even tolerable new novelists has been too nearly complete to be attributable to the peculiar war conditions.
It is fairly safe, and it "corresponds to the facts" with tolerable accuracy.
They publish few papers which do not give evidence of at least tolerable scholarship in their writers.
The walls of the northern building are still in a tolerable state of preservation; the eastern one has mostly fallen, and of that on the west only slight traces of the foundations remain.
In such a picture you would have a tolerableidea of this Canyon of the Rio Mancos.
Such constructions can be seen to this day in tolerable good condition.
It consists of a pyramid thirty feet square at the base, and bearing a building in a tolerable state of preservation.
He had purchased an estate in Warwickshire, and had been welcomed to his domain in very tolerable verse by one of the neighboring squires, the poetical fox-hunter, William Somervile.
Everybody who had been at a public school had written Latin verses; many had written such verses with tolerable success, and were quite able to appreciate, though by no means able to rival, the skill with which Addison imitated Virgil.
He was a tolerable actor in private theatricals, and was particularly successful in the part of Lothario.
Whittinghame, who spoke Spanish with tolerable fluency, strained his ears to catch the drift of their conversation.
He passed the night in tolerable tranquillity, but, at day-break, he began to disturb and alarm us by loud and continued talking.
Flaxman, "that sculpture was 800 years, from Dædalus to the time immediately preceding Phidias, in attaining a tolerable resemblance of the human form.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tolerable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
