Usefulness

Examples

• She had great pleasure in feeling her usefulness, but could not conceive how they would have managed without her. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• But for their usefulness in partially cleansing these terrible streets, they would not be tolerated long. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Here was a career of usefulness opened before me! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Once self-supported by conscience, once embarked on a career of manifest usefulness, the true Christian never yields. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Here was an invention that would more than double the usefulness of the reaper, and one that seems quite as remarkable as the reaper itself. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Her first attempts at usefulness were in an endeavour to find out who were the parents, but Harriet could not tell. Jane Austen. Emma.
• General Meade was an officer of great merit, with drawbacks to his usefulness that were beyond his control. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This might have been discouraging to some people; but, once embarked on a career of manifest usefulness, nothing discourages Me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• She rapidly advanced in esteem, in good report, and in usefulness, and Abelard as rapidly lost ground. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Of course, my notions of usefulness must be narrow. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The usefulness of forests to man lies: (1) In furnishing him with timber for building, manufacturing, fuel, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• For the avoidance of this, holy marriage festivals will be instituted, and their holiness will be in proportion to their usefulness. Plato. The Republic.
• Went down into a modest life of usefulness and happiness. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The usefulness of the cantharides, or Spanish flies, in medicine, is known to all, and thousands owe their lives to that knowledge. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.

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