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Dr. Baumann says that the lake at Riabba from which the spirit Uapa rises is more holy, and that he is small, and resides in a chasm in a rock whose declivity can only be passed by means of bush ropes, and in the wet season he is not get-at-able at all.

Travels in West Africa 2003

The successful business man should keep his money where it is get-at-able, and when hard times come and the prices go away down to low water mark, then he should buy.

Dollars and Sense William Crosbie Hunter

We should like this to take shape by the end of the year, as the people will be more get-at-able in their villages in such a visitation kind of way than in the ordinary church methods during the dry season.

Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary W. P. Livingstone

My dear Darwin, -- I should have replied sooner to your last kind and interesting letters, but they reached me in the midst of my packing previous to removal here, and I have only just now got my books and papers in a get-at-able state.

Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant

Even so simple a precaution as putting fuse boxes in get-at-able places would save a lot of nuisance, and the miserable business of putting up shelves could be greatly simplified without any extra materials or radical change in methods.

As I Please 1947

This interferes somewhat with the accessibility of the various parts, but great ingenuity has been manifested in making the parts readily get-at-able in case of necessity for repairs or alterations.

Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. George Patterson 1910

The keys of this general type have the same advantages as those of the horizontal on-edge arrangement with respect to the gathering of dust, and while perhaps the contacts are not so readily get-at-able for inspection, yet they have the advantage of being somewhat more simple, and of taking up less horizontal space on the key shelf.

Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. George Patterson 1910

Whether it shall be squared, or oblong with oval ends, depends upon tastes; by all means it should be get-at-able.

The Complete Home Oliver R. [Contributor] Williamson 1907

When Mr. Piperson returned, he found Pigling sitting before the fire; he had brushed up the hearth and put on the pot to boil; the meal was not get-at-able.

The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter Beatrix Potter 1904

When Mr. Piperson returned, he found Pigling sitting before the fire; he had brushed up the hearth and put on the pot to boil; the meal was not get-at-able.

The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter Beatrix Potter 1904