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  • It was, in her opinion, the comfortablest room in the house (we all thought so when we came down of a night to smoke there), and the handsomest kitchen in Lilliput Street.

    A Little Dinner at Timmins’s 2006

  • Grief in easy circumstances and supported by the comfortablest springs and cushions, was typified in the equipage and the little gentleman, its proprietor.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • But not till he had cast a lingering look behind and said: "This is about the comfortablest place a feller could drop into, in my opinion."

    Idle Hour Stories Eugenia Dunlap Potts

  • He spoke the comfortablest words ever a farmer did speak to his fellow-creatures, and many a man was lost afore he knew it when doing business with John Warner, and never realised, till it came to the turn, how a bargain which sounded so well had somehow gone against him after all.

    The Torch and Other Tales Eden Phillpotts 1911

  • It is one of the comfortablest truths that great men abound, though in the unknown state.

    Paras. 25-49 1909

  • The women said they were of a sort not commonly met with and very fine, and my master said they were the comfortablest he ever used, and he slept now both soft and deep.

    A Thin Ghost and Others 1899

  • You've got one of the cosiest dens in London and one of the comfortablest chairs.

    The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Israel Zangwill 1895

  • You've got one of the cosiest dens in London and one of the comfortablest chairs.

    Merely Mary Ann Israel Zangwill 1895

  • When we woke up next morning we was feeling a little cheerfuller, and had had a most powerful good sleep, because sand is the comfortablest bed there is, and I don't see why people that can afford it don't have it more.

    Tom Sawyer Abroad 1894

  • I was in the simplest and comfortablest of gymnast costumes -- flesh-colored tights from neck to heel, with blue silk puffings about my loins, and bareheaded.

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1889

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