serviceableness
Example Sentences
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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
Are love of father and mother on the part of children, affection and serviceableness between brothers and sisters, straight-forwardness and truthfulness between business men, essentially dependent upon these beliefs?
From The Necessity of Atheism by David Marshall Brooks
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
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 Carleton Eldredge Noyes
The work that is ready to her hand, the ordinary round of family tasks and serviceableness, repels her.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 6, 1890 by Various
