Useful

Examples

• As a walking companion, Emma had very early foreseen how useful she might find her. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Hence, indeed, his position as a senator was not a little useful to him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Peggotty comes up to make herself useful, and falls to work immediately. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• They are certainly much more useful in the Gredos than here. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• If it fails on its merits, he doesn't worry or fret about it, but, on the contrary, regards it as a useful fact learned; remains cheerful and tries something else. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Money was always useful to this free-handed young fellow, and he took it without many words. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Was there any chance of his being hereafter useful to Sir Thomas in the concerns of his West Indian property? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Pin it round your neck, and then it will be useful, said Laurie, looking down at the little blue boots, which he evidently approved of. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The principal reason why natural abilities are esteemed, is because of their tendency to be useful to the person, who is possessed of them. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Excuse me, he continued: necessity compels me to make you useful. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• But how to obtain the beginning of such useful development? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• As boracic acid is but slightly soluble in water and other common solvents this combination with glycerine--which is also a useful agent in arresting the growth of germs--is peculiarly valuable. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• There's five or six coming, but the well is deep, and another might be useful, if you don't mind appearing in that shape. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Under such circumstances a judicious man changes the topic and enters on ground where his own gifts may be more useful. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But it is very useful, Pilar said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It will be such a help to Laurie, for I can row, and Meg see to the lunch, and the children be useful in some way. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• This awful revolution, wrote Gibbon of the Western collapse, may be usefully applied to the useful instruction of the present age. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To-day the friction match is turned out by automatic machinery by the million, and constitutes probably the most ubiquitous and useful of all the minor inventions. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• How could she be otherwise than useful and happy! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• A degree or two lower, and a creditable appearance might interest me; I might hope to be useful to their families in some way or other. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The clepsydra became in Greece a useful instrument to enforce the law in restricting loquacious orators and lawyers to reasonable limits in their addresses. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Not the least curious of the smaller contrivances is an apparatus which deserves notice as a useful application of magnetism to manufacturing purposes. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The same question reappears in politics, where the useful or expedient seems to claim a larger sphere and to have a greater authority. Plato. The Republic.
• And in the laying of bricks and stones is the just man a more useful or better partner than the builder? Plato. The Republic.
• Vessels of the Monitor type still form useful parts of the United States Navy, in which the Monterey and Monadnock are its most representative types. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The novelty of my doing anything in the least useful, had its charms. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Harriet would be loved as one to whom she could be useful. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Gentle usage renders the slave not only more faithful, but more intelligent, and, therefore, upon a double account, more useful. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy, in that England which I shall see no more. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Amy can stay and make herself useful if she isn't sick, which I've no doubt she will be, looks like it now. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.

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