serviceableness

Example Sentences

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There are many tendencies toward extreme individualism which need balancing by clearer ideals of social serviceableness.

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

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

Wisdom is the theoretic knowledge of things as they are, irrespective of their serviceableness to our practical interests.

From The Five Great Philosophies of Life by Hyde, William De Witt

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 hat should be plain, the hair compactly done, and the whole effect of the costume trim serviceableness and grace, rather than prettiness.

From The Etiquette of To-day by Ordway, Edith B.