Serviceable

Examples

• All the other furniture is plain and serviceable, you perceive. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• As I saw she would go on, I thought it best to try to be serviceable to her by meeting the theme rather than avoiding it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I hold that by refusing to work with Mr. Bulstrode I should be turning my back on an opportunity of making my profession more generally serviceable. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Thanks, however, to Gurt's quick ear, and the serviceable electric light, their little scheme was frustrated at nearly the moment of its fulfilment. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• These qualities render it peculiarly serviceable for the stopping of vessels of different kinds, for floats, buoys, swimming-belts or jackets, artificial limbs, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Means are menial, the serviceable is servile. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Wells takes his stand very definitely with those who regard classification as serviceable for the practical purposes of life but nevertheless a departure from the objective truth of things. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Fire melts ore and allows of the forging of iron, as in the blacksmith's shop, and of the fashioning of innumerable objects serviceable to man. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He cannot be their merchant, nor they his customers; and they are all of them thus mutually less serviceable to one another. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• There was an officer in command of the soldiers; a stout, serviceable, profoundly calm man, with his drawn sword in his hand, smoking a cigar. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The Count Fosco, and his lady, who came upstairs immediately afterwards, were both most serviceable and kind. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I should like to be serviceable to you, if you will let me. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Few members of the animal creation are more universally serviceable to man than the codfish. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Wished Esther only to know what would be serviceable to her. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I am poor, and an exile; but it will afford me true pleasure to be in any way serviceable to a human creature. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• My right arm was tolerably restored; disfigured, but fairly serviceable. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• It followed that the old man, Riah, as a good and serviceable friend to both, was not to be disclaimed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It had been serviceable in deadening the first shock, without retaining any influence to alarm. Jane Austen. Emma.
• For family or grocers’ use this will prove even more serviceable than some of the high-priced patent refrigerators. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The ungainly piece of honesty beamed and blushed as he said it, quite enraptured with the remembrance of having been serviceable. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• That which was considered good to-day was superseded by something better and more serviceable to-morrow. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• With the development of an attachment to bind with twine, a new problem arose--where to get a cheap serviceable twine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There is, perhaps, but one set of men in the whole commonwealth to whom the bounty either was or could be essentially serviceable. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Mr Boffin has merely to add, that he relies on Mr John Rokesmith's assurance that he will be faithful and serviceable. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• To make the steam-carriage really serviceable it must be more efficient and reliable. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It is also very serviceable for frying hot cakes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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