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Example sentences for "well able"

  • She had two brass guns, an ample supply of arms and ammunition of every sort, so that she was as well able to act the pirate as the slaver.

  • The surf had in the meantime got up; however, the canoe was as well able to pass through it as any of the other boats.

  • If she gets a slight repair, with a fresh supply of provisions, she will be as well able to perform the voyage as she was at first.

  • The frigate and corvette had each sent two lieutenants; and Linton insisted on being as well able to undergo the fatigue as his captain; the rest of the boats were commanded by the mates and midshipmen.

  • A petition made by me under the circumstances of the case will, I am confident, be attended to, and you may yet enjoy many years of happiness with one who is so well able to afford it you.

  • He is well able to do so, for he keeps his hand in at the work, and knows everybody here and elsewhere.

  • By God’s Grace I am well able to distinguish between what by way of grace and before God may be permitted in the case of a troubled conscience and what, apart from such need of conscience, is not right before God in outward matters.

  • Who so well able to handle china as careful women?

  • She thinks if a bright, steady girl of thirteen should spend two years at it, and then have friends to start her in business, she would be well able to support herself.

  • Who so well able to judge what will look well on a table?

  • Nestor: It seems to me to have set fire to a rick, but I am well able to quench it after.

  • Mrs. Broderick: Well able he is to do it if the Lord would but put it in his mind.

  • I am well able to answer you and to tell you the truth.

  • Peter Tannian: I am well able to mind it.

  • It is well able we should be to go mounting up aloft in ropes.

  • A man would be well able to go up to his promise.

  • Mineog: "Well able to give out an opinion on any matter at all.

  • This fault of pusillanimity and timorous mind hindereth a man also many times from doing many good things which, if he took a good stomach to him in the trust of God's help, he would be well able to do.

  • There can be little doubt that ants have a sense of taste, as they are so well able to distinguish sugary substances; and it is unquestionable that in their antennae they possess highly elaborated organs of touch.

  • They are furthermore all exceedingly hardy, and probably as well able to thrive in London as the sparrow itself, although not so prolific and pushing as that sometimes troublesome bird.

  • I have known few men so well able as he to press flowers into all manner of decorative service, in metal, wood, stone or panel, and in needlework.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    sister dear; taken seriously; well again; well assured; well aware; well buttered; well contented; well cultivated; well done; well enough; well established; well guarded; well illustrated; well inhabited; well knowne; well marked; well mixed; well satisfied; well shown; well soaked; well suited; well they; well told; well ventilated; well washed; well wooded