navigable

• Every one expected the Government to spend millions of dollars to make the Sangamon navigable, and even New Salem (which is not now to be found on the map) was to become a flourishing [139] city, in the hopeful imaginings of its few inhabitants. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln, by Wayne Whipple.
• But the winds render the sea navigable, their constant agitation of its surface is the cause of its preservation, and if they are often dangerous, it is for the pilot to know how to navigate in safety. —  Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos, the Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century
• By stopping the yearly floods of the Tennessee River and making it navigable, an entire area of almost the size of England could be opened up for development. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• I describe it was easy, navigable, a great food town, a good music town, a hidden art town. —  Buttermilk & Molasses
• •Congress then was told that the West Branch could never be made navigable, and that "the river is not worthy of improvement." —  Centredaily.com: Local

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