serviceableness
Example Sentences
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None of these heating attachments is sure to prove fully satisfactory, but any one of them is likely to add a great deal to the serviceableness of the bathroom.
From The Complete Home by Clara E. (Clara Elizabeth) Laughlin
But it is by no means yet certain that they have lost serviceableness as, at least, outworks of the stronghold.
From Miracles and Supernatural Religion by James Morris Whiton
That the useful is not always perceived as beautiful is due to the fact that the design which has shaped the work must be regarded apart from the material serviceableness of the object itself.
From The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life by Carleton Eldredge Noyes
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
The case stands thus: there are two principles concerned in the tenure of the magistrate's office—theoretic amenability to the letter of the law, and practical serviceableness for his duties.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 by Various
