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Definition of Emptiable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emptiable
Literary usage of Emptiable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Puritan and Anglican: Studies in Literature by Edward Dowden (1901)
"... angels in heaven do know, it is as a drop of that un- emptiable fountain of
wisdom ; which wisdom hath diversely imparted her treasures unto the world. ..."
2. The Modern Factory: Safety, Sanitation and Welfare by George Moses Price (1914)
"It therefore follows that a fire drill in order to be a real protection to the
workers can only be properly installed and maintained in an emptiable factory ..."
3. Everyday Christian Life, Or, Sermons by the Way by Frederic William Farrar (1887)
"For what are the angels themselves even, in respect of Christ ? What but " sparks
from the un- emptiable fountain of his ..."
4. Preliminary Report of the Factory Investigating Commission, 1912 by Robert Ferdinand Wagner, George Moses Price, Holbrook Fitz-John Porter, Violet Leonard Pike, Pauline Dorothea Goldmark, Edward Ewing Pratt (1912)
"... ever been called for that would require buildings to be emptiable within a
limited time, buildings are not built so that they are ..."
5. Proceedings of the ... Congress by New York (State). Industrial Commission, New York (State). Dept. of Labor (1917)
"If a two-story building with such an occupancy could not be emptied in an emergency,
how much less emptiable would a ten, twenty or thirty storied building ..."
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