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)

They serve to teach him many most valuable lessons, and to round out his character into a far more symmetrical beauty and serviceableness.

From George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God by Pierson, Arthur T. (Arthur Tappan)

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

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 Brooks, David Marshall

I know no cornice more beautiful in its extreme simplicity and serviceableness.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John