He endeavours to reduce all his politics into maxims, as being most easily portable for a travelling head, though, as they are for the most part of slight matters, they are but like spirits drawn out of water, insipid and good for nothing.

This is what gives Birth to the Motto of a Speculation, which I rather chuse to take out of the Poets than the Prose-writers, as the former generally give a finer Turn to a Thought than the latter, and by couching it in few Words, and in harmonious Numbers, make it more portable to the Memory.

Thenthe invention not of Italy but of Germanycame the art of printing, and made this revival of Greek literature quickly portable into other lands.

With her own hands she packed away the more precious and portable of them, while she arranged with her brother for the safe-keeping of the others.

Not content with ransacking the interior of each house, the soldiers had broken up every article of furniture, and with wanton destruction had thrown everything portable out of the windows.

Moreover, tracks which are not capable of separation are lighter and therefore more portable than those in which the sleepers are detachable.