serviceableness
Example Sentences
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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 Fanny Kemble
If they answer that use, the country will rejoice in keeping them; if not, that will become of them which must of all things found to have lost their serviceableness.
From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by John Ruskin
That uncouth, bullet-headed officer had not spent his whole life on the high seas, belaboring all classes of men into serviceableness, without being able to judge the genus homo pretty shrewdly.
From The Cruise of the Dry Dock by T. S. Stribling
One remembers that he could still rejoice in the trees, not because they were images of loneliness and meditation, but because of their serviceableness.
From The Cutting of an Agate by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The only real test of health is the serviceableness to the needs of life.
From Psychotherapy by Hugo Münsterberg
