Citations:seeable

English citations of seeable

Noun

					1812	1918 1991
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• 1812 May 12, John Wood Warter, editor, Selections From the Letters of Robert Southey, volume 2, London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, published 1856, Letter to Captain Southey, R. N., St. Helen's, Auckland, page 271:

  We shall make a march of it, seeing all the seeables on the way, to Newcastle, cross the Tyne at Shields, that I may make a pilgrimage to Jarrow in honour of the venerable Bede, and thence to Sunderland; […].

• 1918 August, “Literature's Meal Ticket”, in Hearst's, volume 34, number 2, page 79:

  For its upkeep—remember this when you slip a quarter to the newsdealer next month and get reading matter worth $1.50!—we must thank mostly the makers of soap, paint, cereals, tires, shoes, and a thousand other wearables, smokeables, eatables, seeables and usables.

• 1991 June 11, Porter J. Goss, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, on Consideration of Several Proposals to Authorize Oil and Gas Leasing Within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, volumes 102-26, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 244:

  It seems like somebody ought to answer those questions. What is the worst thing that can go wrong? What is the total risk? I think we are dealing with the seeables right now. Nobody ever thought about Valdez, or if they did, they didn't talk a lot about it.