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The effect was infinitely more dapper, becoming to the figure, and serviceable for hard wear.

He held a command under Dumourier in the Holland campaign of 1783, in which he won a brave name but no serviceable laurels.

You will find it serviceable in the formation of a demeanour.

Mr. Chaplin has a serviceable vocal organ, with which he combines an effective manner.

The path led to a front gate of primitive and bald manufacture, but stout and serviceable, as was everything else about the farm.

Hence, with anything short of an approximately perfect oil, the brass is most serviceable.

And again of his Phronius, son of Noemon, whom he introduces to play the part of a considerate and serviceable Ithacan citizen.

Did the boats, whether those under davits or otherwise, prove to be efficient and serviceable for the purpose of saving life?

We may be allowed to hope, however, that some imagination may survive parasitically even in the most serviceable brain.

The woodcut at p. xxiii represents one of the most serviceable of instruments.