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Example sentences for "much service"

  • A ronda or patrol, consisting of soldiers, parades the streets during the night, at stated periods, but it is not of much service to the town.

  • With the same view, emetics are of much service.

  • Of his remaining two divisions, Thomas's did not reach the field during the engagement; Wood's arrived before firing had ceased, but not in time to be of much service.

  • Treatment must be begun at the first suspicion of an attack to be of much service.

  • Rubbing and movement of the joints is of much service in all cases; any liniment may be used.

  • This is pure and refined petroleum, and will be found of much service in many forms of skin irritation.

  • Here I am of about as much service as a second tail would be to a dog, and shall only bungle the next thing I am called upon to do, if indeed General Washington is willing to trust me with anything else.

  • If he thinks I can really be of as much service in the city as here, I shall go.

  • He chose for his companion Father Gaspar Cerqueira, a native of Paraguay, who understood the Tonocotè language, which is used by many nations, and was of much service to him in this great expedition.

  • Why do they persecute the Guaranies, their most faithful friends, who have done so much service to the king in the royal camps?

  • They had already marched fifty miles, and the main body, although the railway had been of much service, was still distant.

  • As a single order like that of the Secretary's may destroy the entire fruits of a campaign, I cannot reasonably expect, if my operations are thus to be interfered with, to be of much service in the field.

  • I wish he understood a little English as then he would be of much service.

  • This sandy watercourse flows to west and south, a mere narrow channel, but it was of much service to us; we would have fared badly for the poor animals had we not fallen in with it, insignificant as it appears.

  • When the swelling of the lids is considerable, scarifying them with the point of a lancet will often be of much service.

  • The terrier is seldom of much service until he is twelve months old; and then, incited by natural propensity, or the example of the older ones, or urged on by the huntsman, he begins to discharge his supposed duty.

  • In a country, however, the greater part of which is infested with wolves, it cannot be of much service, but exposed to unnecessary danger.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    gigantic size; much again; much alone; much attached; much beauty; much compressed; much concerned; much earlier; much elongated; much gratified; much increased; much land; much later; much nicer; much obliged; much people; much reason; much reduced; much sought; much sugar; much taken; much the; much water; this work; thou shouldst; with other