Literary notes about Commodious (AI summary)
Writers employ "commodious" to evoke a sense of both spaciousness and functional comfort in a variety of settings—from vast, healthful schoolhouses and military encampments [1, 2, 3] to grand urban apartments and stately public buildings [4, 5, 6]. The term not only lends an air of physical largeness to palatial rooms or commodious harbors that shelter against stormy gales [7, 8], but it also underscores domestic ease in inviting parlors and well-appointed lodgings [9, 10, 11]. In some works it even extends to metaphorical or technical discussions, suggesting that convenience and adequacy can describe not merely physical spaces but also the very nature of human craft and governance [12, 13, 14]. Through these varied applications, "commodious" has become a versatile adjective that richly conveys both form and function in the literary landscape.
- As a rule the school-houses are commodious, and are built with an eye to the health and comfort of the pupils.
— from Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian by Canniff Haight - A tent was indispensable for Mongolia, and we got a very commodious one from a French officer.
— from The Siberian Overland Route from Peking to Petersburg,Through the Deserts and Steppes of Mongolia, Tartary, &c. by Alexander Michie - Commodious, indeed, were some of the trench barracks.
— from History of the World War, Vol. 3 by Richard Joseph Beamish - "It's a six-roomer, exclusive of kitchens," said Mr. Guppy, "and in the opinion of my friends, a commodious tenement.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens - In every Court, ample and commodious provision is made for the accommodation of the citizens.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens - Pennsylvania Hall was one of the most commodious and splendid buildings in the city, scientifically ventilated and brilliantly lighted with gas.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - This is its harbour of refuge, a sure, commodious, and mysterious one, sheltered from all gales.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne - I kept the third for myself, and I had it hollowed out, which reduced its value, but rendered it more commodious for the purpose I intended.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - It was bright and commodious, with a bevelled mirror set in the wall at one end and incandescent lights arranged in three places.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser - My mother's room is very commodious, is it not? Large and cheerful-looking, and the dressing-closets so well disposed!
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen - His family lived in commodious apartments over the store, having an entrance on the side within the porte cochere.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin - ; Desire of such things as are necessary to commodious living; and a Hope by their Industry to obtain them.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes - Socrates being asked, whether it was more commodious to take a wife or not, “Let a man take which course he will,” said he; “he will repent.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne - [1331b] separate from this for buying and selling, which should be so situated as to be commodious for the reception of goods both by sea and land.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle
