The 240-page paperbound book is only 4 1/4 inches wide, making it eminently portable for protracted searches.

If the house was overrun by Comorre's army, obviously these eminently portable treasures would go to the attackers and not to Hakon's crew, who now acquired a real stake in its defense.

Hyperwave transmitters are easy to handle and eminently portable.

It is eminently portable, and eminently practical, when care is taken to provide stable trestles.

The other two were more promising: a small, light, eminently portable flechette pistol that might have been the great-grand-daddy of the weapon M. Herrig had tried to kill me with.

A smartphone may store as much personal information as a laptop or desktop, and they're eminently portable; unlike a laptop, you'll carry it with you pretty much wherever you go.

Made in 1906 by J. Wippel & Company, this small sterling-silver box with slots for 12 colors is eminently portable ($4,350), as is another paint box in the shape of a book with its own porcelain palette ($885).

The Glimmerglass staging of "Il Re Pastore," on the other hand, all lightness and air, and eminently portable, will surely be revived soon somewhere else.

These hand-carved statuettes of saints or religious scenes are eminently portable.

In our collective folk memory - or possibly as a result of seeing too many old Hollywood movies - we think of gold in the form of coins as eminently portable in times of national emergency.