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Example sentences for "good service"

  • Hemp is apt to rot, from exposure to alternate wet and excessive dryness, but we have seen it do good service.

  • From this it follows that a hostile "feeling" as well as a hostile "view" must animate such an army if it is to do good service.

  • The Bavarian Army has perhaps the most continuous record of good service in the field of any of the minor German armies.

  • Even the youngest of such men are capable of good service, while the veterans are probably better soldiers than any to be found in conscript armies.

  • Do your best, sire, and I will come to your relief with a reserved force, which will do good service.

  • You have done me good service in your life; to you I am indebted for my crown, and you are its brightest jewel.

  • Vergennes himself is a man of talent, and will do me good service.

  • King George[71] is a prompt paymaster, and you have done him many a piece of good service.

  • There will be good service to be done when we meet, as Sir Henry[98] is reported to have sent out a real soldier in command.

  • Doubtless, if my stout man John Bumpus had carried the carbine, he would have done you as good service.

  • Any one who could rid them of his presence would do good service to the cause of humanity.

  • At any rate, Alwyn, the boy has given us all a lesson, and you have done me good service, by presenting him to me.

  • You have no stouter man-at-arms in all your band, and he has proved that he can be discreet when he chooses, and did me good service in my last expedition.

  • Henley's utter want of tact stood him in good service, and made it possible for him to go on talking.

  • Then he went on to say that his Bulbul scholarship had stood him in good service, and his little Turkish had been turned to account.

  • I know that your fathers have always been faithful to our house, and I hope that their sons will, ere long, do as good service for me as they have done for a foreign prince.

  • Undoubtedly, it is an honour being chosen for such a mission, and it is possible you may get a great deal of credit for it, as the king is always ready to push forward those who do good service.

  • The czar's is a good service, and we employ a score or two of Scotchmen, most of them in good posts.

  • Your company did me good service in that fight, and Colonel Schlippenbach did not speak in any way too warmly in their favour.

  • Mason is in fine health, and is doing, as was to be expected, good service.

  • I have no doubt he will do good service, though unfortunately his company is small, some thirty odd effective men.

  • You have heard, marshal, what a good service he rendered me at Rocroi?

  • A soldier who has rendered such service to us cannot be allowed to remain a soldier dependent on his pay, and I am sure that should need arise you will do me as good service as you have rendered to Turenne and Enghien.

  • Then, by heavens, you have done us good service indeed, Captain Campbell!

  • This is the time for the Sheeahs to do good service.

  • The Brigadier says that he was thwarted in all his efforts to do good service—that he could not even place a gun in position without being reminded by the General that he had no independent command.

  • This good old kite has done good service, and now it shall be rewarded by sailing up to a splendid height.

  • No, they are not pretty; but they look jolly and good tempered, and if they were to fight as hard as they work they ought to do good service.

  • We are soldiers of fortune, ready to venture our lives in a good service, and for good pay, but mightily disinclined to throw them away for the mere love of fighting.

  • This is not the first time that you have rendered me good service, and I am sure you will turn our brave and valiant soldiers of the queen.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good service" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    good advice; good and; good behaviour; good common school education; good comrade; good conscience; good cousin; good cream; good distance; good gods; good humour; good husband; good income; good judge; good looking; good order; good play; good preservation; good road; good round; good seed; good size; good sort; good unto; goodly heritage; take life