serviceable life

Example Sentences

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So that he had to rely rather upon aspirations and the possibility, under proper inspiration, of a more actively serviceable life in future.

From Mr. Britling Sees It Through by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

In January, 1860, Montagu Butler entered on his new duties at Harrow, and there he spent five-and-twenty years of happy, strenuous, and serviceable life.

From Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences by Russell, George William Erskine

A great life, his, a great and serviceable life, frustrated of glory ...

From The Wind Bloweth by Donn-Byrne, Brian Oswald