English citations of doable

  • Amid all violent stupidity of speech, a right noble instinct of what is doable and what is not doable never forsakes them:
    1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, ch. 3, Manchester Insurrection
  • Then shall we discern, not one thing, but, in clearer or dimmer sequence, a whole endless host of things that can be done. Do the first of these; do it; the second will already have become clearer, doabler
    1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, ch. 4, Morrison's Pill