serviceableness

Example Sentences

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The only real test of health is the serviceableness to the needs of life.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo

Fayard and Perrin, for their serviceableness in the matter.

From In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" by Betham-Edwards, Matilda

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 Whiton, James Morris

But the serviceableness of the stipulation is most vividly illustrated by referring to the actual examples in the pages of the Latin comic dramatists.

From Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society by Maine, Henry Sumner, Sir

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 Ruskin, John