The coarse and harsh German soap effectively rendered my hair untenantable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference

An attempt to burn Miss Crandall's house followed, and on the night of Sept. 9, 1834, it was made untenantable under the assaults of a mob.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886.] Reference

After some time this hospital being very open, became untenantable, and in February was closed, and Miss Mitchell was transferred to Union Hotel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference

The consular house was soon crammed with dirty Jews, whose vermin and filth rendered the house untenantable, until it had undergone a thorough repair and cleansing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Morocco] Reference

No disinfectants whatever were used, and at intervals of three days it was emptied by the crudest means imaginable, on which occasions the barracks were not only untenantable but absolutely unapproachable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference

For one thing, on Mondays, the market-day, the Café Prosper was untenantable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten Tales] Reference

It was shelled later in the war by the Federal gunboats and rendered untenantable.    From Wordnik.com.  [A soldier's recollections : leaves from the diary of a young Confederate : with an oration on the motives and aims of the soldiers of the South,] Reference

For not only was the dower-house in an untenantable state, but the weather was very much against them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance] Reference

The solicitors placed it in our hands, but the property until the twenty years have elapsed, is quite untenantable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hushed Up! A Mystery of London] Reference

Each division, during the cold weather, is provided with a stove for the purpose of heating, in a measure, places that would have otherwise been untenantable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison] Reference

When a house becomes so old as to be untenantable, it is rebuilt, and the new one is fashioned like the old, so far as regards the walk running through its front.    From Wordnik.com.  [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.] Reference

He is to become a co-worker with nature in the reconstruction of the damaged fabric which the negligence or the wantonness of former lodgers has rendered untenantable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth as Modified by Human Action] Reference

One thing is remarkable -- that, after some years, the old holes are forsaken and new ones bored; perhaps because the old habitations grow foul and fetid from long use, or because they may so abound with fleas as to become untenantable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2] Reference

I have two visitors, both relations: one a very comfortable, good woman, whom I like; the other a large, bony, uncomfortable person, who never can get into the right place, and is always in the way, and makes a room look untenantable by the mere fact of her being in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference

It may be added that the Blackfriars Theatre was permanently closed in 1647, part of the ground on which it stood, adjoining Apothecaries 'Hall, still bearing the name of Playhouse Yard; that The Theatre in Shoreditch was abandoned about 1598 (it was probably a wooden erection, and in twenty years might have become untenantable); and that The Curtain fell into disuse at the beginning of the reign of Charles I.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character] Reference

"Mr. Tapping reports that the stench arising from your room has made the house untenantable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World] Reference

"Yes; that is, it is so untenantable -- so -- what shall I call it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

The house, sir, is quite untenantable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World] Reference