tollable

These are the sallow and lean people who always feel "tollable," but who never feel well; a people of dry fibre and coarse existence, yet not devoid of wit and good sense.

The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland 1875

'The taäirahnt's foot is awn thaï sho', 'and will be likely to remain thar a right tollable peert length of time,

The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

He protested considerable, but we got him there in a tollable state of preservation, barring the fact that he was skinned up on the corners and we had pulled a hinge off from the office door.

Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

Having learned further that the postal uncle was poly las 'month but tollable now, Flora's young mistress said:

V. V.'s Eyes Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

"Tollable, tollable," said the astounded farmer, looking hard at Pill as he flung a handful of tobacco into his mouth.

Prairie Folks Hamlin Garland 1900

"Tollable, tollable," said the astounded farmer, looking hard at Pill as he flung a handful of tobacco into his mouth.

Other Main-Travelled Roads Hamlin Garland 1900

-- I'm not very good at unnerstannin 'that kind o' folk, not seein 'myself' owever a saint could manage to get on in this mortal wurrld; but I reckon to think there's a tollable imitation o 'the real article in Passon Walden -- the jolly sort o' saint, o 'coorse, -- not the prayin', whinin ', snuffin' kind.

God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

-- I'm not very good at unnerstannin 'that kind o' folk, not seein 'myself' owever a saint could manage to get on in this mortal wurrld; but I reckon to think there's a tollable imitation o 'the real article in Passon Walden -- the jolly sort o' saint, o 'coorse, -- not the prayin', whinin ', snuffin' kind.

God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

-- I'm not very good at unnerstannin 'that kind o' folk, not seein 'myself' owever a saint could manage to get on in this mortal wurrld; but I reckon to think there's a tollable imitation o 'the real article in Passon Walden -- the jolly sort o' saint, o 'coorse, -- not the prayin', whinin ', snuffin' kind.

God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

We got along tollable-like, till de cotting wuz about all picked, an 'hadn't drawed no wages at all, to speak on.

Bricks without Straw A Novel 1880