serviceableness

Example Sentences

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It is shabby to offer Him the mere hull of the boat when the storms of passion have carried its serviceableness away.

From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by Jowett, John Henry

His serviceableness to his friends was unwearied, and his generous liberality toward all whom he could help either with his interest, his trouble, or his purse was unfailing.

From Records of a Girlhood by Kemble, Fanny

In one case the product is more obviously and immediately practical, and the informing purpose tends to become obscured in the actual serviceableness of the result.

From The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life by Noyes, Carleton Eldredge

This general defect in its serviceableness has been heretofore felt by those who appealed to it.

From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by Newman, John Henry Cardinal

He finds now that the form itself—over and above the practical serviceableness of the bowl—gives him pleasure.

From The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life by Noyes, Carleton Eldredge