Serving

Examples

• I must indeed, I said; for when just now I repeated the offer of serving him for a deacon, he expressed himself shocked at my want of decency. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• On board serving as third mate was George Radfoot. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• We were eating at the inn from where the buses leave and the room was crowded and people were singing and there was difficulty serving. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• We must begin by showing how the Diamond first fell into the hands of my uncle Herncastle, when he was serving in India fifty years since. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• To collect documents is one mode of serving your country, and to remember the contents of a document is another. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He was serving in a war and he gave absolute loyalty and as complete a performance as he could give while he was serving. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Here, its power was only a glare: a stifling, sickly glare, serving but to bring forward stains and dirt that might otherwise have slept. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Consecrate your existence to the recollection of James Steerforth's tenderness--he would have made you his serving-man's wife, would he not? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• When all was ready, Margaret opened the study door, and went in like a serving-maiden, with a heavy tray held in her extended arms. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• One purpose to which it was suggested this coloured photographic process is applicable, is printing on woven fabrics, the action of light serving as a mordant to fix the colours. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The girl who was serving the meal came in and I told her to bring a plate for me. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• These cirripedes have no branchiae, the whole surface of the body and of the sack, together with the small frena, serving for respiration. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• A shape hitherto unnoticed, stirred, rose, came forward: a shape inharmonious with the environment, serving only to complicate the riddle further. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• There were the old signs, the old names over the shops, the old people serving in them. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Can I only serve you, Pip, by serving your friend? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

Editor: Mervin