serviceableness

Example Sentences

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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 Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

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

It didn't break down, and its lightness and general serviceableness made it a big advertisement of American goods.

From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by Train, George Francis

During the war his inferior courage, it may be assumed, inured to his superior serviceableness, his fears giving counsel to his courtesy and care.

From Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South by Fortune, Timothy Thomas

So it is, but it is also a process by which individuals are fitted for serviceableness to the group life.

From The Family and it's Members by Spencer, Anna Garlin