I know it would be more Convenable for me to address your mother first, but since I am half American you will pardon me if I let that half speak to you, and later on the French half can arrange with your charming mother."
"Molly Brown's Orchard Home"
Nell Speed
In this, as our American afternoon teas have been managed, the American young lady was right, for it is not Convenable, according to European ideas, to wear a loose flowing robe of the tea-gown pattern out of one's bedroom or boudoir.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
It would not be a wicked act, but it would not look well; it would not be Convenable.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood