commodious

• “The head quarters at Newburgh consist of a single house, neither large nor commodious, which is built in the Dutch fashion.”

  Camps and Firesides of the Revolution

• “A set of rooms next to mine was vacant, and Campion, who welcomed a new worker, had the two sets thrown into what house-agents term a commodious flat.”

  Simon the Jester

• “A year ago the necessities of Alfred Waltham's affairs had led to a change; he and his wife and their two children, together with Mrs. Waltham the dowager, removed to what the auctioneers call a commodious residence on the outskirts of Belwick.”

  Demos

• “The coach was a kind of commodious wagonette, invented by the modernist talent of the courier, who dominated the expedition with his scientific activity and breezy wit.”

  The Complete Father Brown

• “My bed is something like the carpets in Queen Elizabeth's time, and this shelter-tent is not one which can be called commodious, but”

  The Associate Hermits

• “commodious' by 'commodious as a college building' without altering our conclusion; though we can guess that the recipient, who thought he was in the lion-house of the Zoo, would be less likely to assent to.”

  The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919

• “Upon hearing the news, neighbor Amy Seidenwurm headed over to the store, donned her bee suit, and bravely herded the bees to a cardboard box, transferring them to "greener pastures where the flowers are dripping with nectar and hives are clean and commodious.”

  Boing Boing

• “But the beauty, the greatness, the glory — Mr. Meagher employed the word "majestic" to describe these mute but far from personality-free bar workers — of Old Town's urinals is that they're almost as commodious as a stall.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Porcelain Majesty

• “Palladio's theatre was built inside another building, for an audience of cultivated patricians; the Globe was built outdoors for a general public, and so was serviceable and commodious rather than magnificent.”

  The Guardian: British architecture: The English Renaissance

• “I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there.”

  Think Progress » Christian Hate Group ‘Repent Amarillo’ Terrorizes Texas Town, Harassing Gays, Liberals, And Other ‘Sinners’

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