serviceableness

Example Sentences

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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)

As it streams out from her it is the creative, regenerating passion for humanity which transcended the reasoned good-will of the pagan philosophers and transcends the materialistic serviceableness of the modern humanitarians.

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane

He finds now that the form itself—over and above the practical serviceableness of the bowl—gives him pleasure.

From The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life by Noyes, Carleton Eldredge

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)

To him more than to any other man it owes its organized life and its missionary serviceableness.

From Unitarianism in America by Cooke, George Willis