The king adopted conciliatory measures, which served to allay the excitement for a time, but the people soon saw that under the surface oppression was gaining headway.
We have now before us the chief materials out of which Wagner made his beautiful dramatic poem, for the story of Wolfram's "Parzival" servedprincipally to set him on the track, and to make suggestions as to the character of Elsa.
H] [Illustration] The dinner was served up in the great hall, where the Squire always held his Christmas banquet.
It was served up in a spacious oaken chamber, the panels of which shone with wax, and around which were several family portraits decorated with holly and ivy.
Our steward hath provided this In honour of the King of Bliss, Which on this day to be served is In Reginensi Atrio.
My great-grandfather, who was born at Plymouth, was a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy and served on board the "Foudroyant.
They spoke up and told me that "Champagne" was served on their ham three times a week.
Atwater's experiments strengthened somewhat the position of those who held that change is not infrequent, but he concluded that the portion broken up while in the body served as a food.
The papers were served on me, but I was not at all alarmed, for I thought it would give me an opportunity to bring out the facts of the case.
You will see how many of the dishes are served with intoxicating liquors as sauces.
Men served God best by discounting miracles, discrediting "superstition," and living in accordance with natural law.
Richelieu died in 1642, and the very next year the monarch whom he had served so gloriously followed him to the grave, leaving the crown to a boy of five years--Louis XIV.
There were the bailiffs and seneschals, whose actual powers had quite disappeared, but whose officesserved to complicate matters.
All these factors served to make the Emperor Leopold the foremost champion of the "old regime" in Europe and incidentally of the royal cause in France.
It reflected a conviction, deep in many minds, that the old political institutions and social distinctions had served their purpose and should now be radically adapted to the new order.
But a significant event in the year 1517 served to make clear a wide discrepancy between what he was teaching and what the Church taught.
In the former case, the land annexed lay along the Baltic and served to render East Prussia, Brandenburg, and Silesia a geographical and political unit.
But when all due allowances have been made, the student cannot help feeling that the purpose of Philip II would have been served better by the employment of means other than persecution and murder.
Lord Bedford served as Ambassador to France on two occasions, and in 1564 he was made a Knight of the Garter.
He was educated at Eton and Oxford, and served as Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire and for Tregony, and was a Lord of the Treasury.
Lord Sussex servedas Lord Lieutenant of Essex and Governor of Harwich.
Roundheads, and served as Secretary-at-War, and was at Naseby.
He also served as Chief Justice in Eyre south of Trent, and Lord Lieutenant of Dorset, Devon, and Cornwall.
He was Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire, and served for a time as Member of Parliament for that county.
The cooks should be instructed as to what time breakfast is to be served and what time to awaken the first sergeant.
He took her hand in his and made her sit beside him on the rude stone that served as the old doorstep of the cabin.
Softly drawing the wooden peg thatserved as a bolt, Gabriel entered with that noiselessness and caution that were habitual to him.
Dinner, which was prefaced by a message from Donna Dolores excusing herself through indisposition, was served in solemn silence.
Their halting-places were for the most part at religious houses, which then served the purpose of inns for travellers, being freely opened to those whom necessity or pleasure might cause to journey.
To the campaigners the Roscoe household was but the temporary incident of the mental landscape, and the confidential bit of criticism and comment served only to make conversation and pass the time.
Whether these entries have not served their turn is now the question.
We served together at Malta and both broke sinews in our calves playing lawn tennis--a bond of union.
Braithwaite, not one of the associates he has told off to work hand in glove with me in this enterprise should ever have served with me before.
Meanwhile refreshments had been served to all the bridesmaids and, maid-servants.
He seemed to me a sort of Adam, a fresh, new and original man, unclassable and unjudgable by any of the formulas or prejudices which served me as means of appreciating men.
Garnier followed the natives on the log that had served as a lifeboat, and to encourage them by example undressed and threw himself into the water.
Here were last summer's styles, airs and grimaces, served up as it were cold.
The door was closed upon them, and the outer apparel that had served them for their journey was thrown to them from the window by the servants.
I served them, in quittance, {My dear sword always served me faithfully.
Yet of these works, the Journey from this World to the Next (which, by a grim trick of fortune, might have served as a title for the more interesting Voyage with which we have yoked it) stands clearly first both in scale and merit.
Acting under his instructions, his cousin Roderick Mackenzie, who served with him, selected a fine site on a cape on the south side of the lake and erected the post that was named Fort Chipewyan.
He remained in active service during the war, served in America, and was {92} wounded in the British attempt to capture New Orleans.
He servedas a naval midshipman during the Seven Years' War.
During the brief truce that broke the long war after 1801, Franklin served under Flinders, the great explorer of the Australasian seas.
He had for twenty-seven years served on the Executive Committee of the society when in 1911 he resigned to make way for the younger generation.
At the University of Basel Professor Eucken often served with Nietzsche on the examining committee of candidates for the doctorate in classical philology.
Lieutenant Barager served until the end of the war; but a few years after its close, he became, as a consequence of that shock, a physical and mental wreck.
Most of the men who resided in the vicinity had served in the Confederate army.
Kemper and I were, of course, aware that in the insect world the ocelli served the same purpose that the degenerate pituitary body once served in the occiput of man.
It was hard to accept Carter's patronizing tolerance, but a certain curve to his eyebrows and the turn of his head served as perpetual reminders of Ruth.
The farmer's wife served them with delighted zeal; she made trip after trip from the stove to the table, pausing frequently to admire her guests.
The huge green tub holding the crape myrtle was once a park where she and Annette had played dolls, and once it had served as a burying-ground when Carter's sling brought down a sparrow.
O Death, (for Life has served its turn,) Opener and usher to the heavenly mansion, Be thou my God.
Neither my companion nor I had a meal together before we got on this train this afternoon and he was taken ill before the evening meal was served in the diner.
Sheriff McCurdy dropped the heavy piece of iron which served as an anchor overboard and Bob was surprised to note that the water was at least eight or nine feet deep.
Breakfast was served quickly after they placed their orders and Bob ate the meal with real relish.
His conflicting feelings made him smile, and here it was that his humor served him.
And itserved him right that it had come back on him by pointing the way to the present impossible situation.
He was living at Peter McSwain's hotel, and occupied a bedroom and parlor, which latter served him as an office.
He said his chiefs had sent him up to see how the general public could best be served by his road with regard to this coal boom, and I told him I was dead sure that railroads never failed in their service of the public.
Opportunity had served the younger man, who now intended to drive his point home ruthlessly, with a deep, kindly humor lying behind his every act.
He'd have been the emblem of every trading corporation I know, and his effigy would have served as the coat-of-arms for the whole of the present-day creation.
The wicked young Lieutenants who served with him on the Plains used to say that his bark was worse than his bite, because no reasonable bite could ever be so bad as his bark.
At all events itserved as a hint, which Alspaugh did not fail to take.
Oh, you should taste dandelions boiled with bacon and served with mother's cornbread.
She broiled ham of her own sugar-curing, creamed potatoes, served asparagus on toast, and made a delicious strawberry shortcake.
The midnight supper was served with the same colours and the last half of the programme was being danced.
So one of the Almighty's most delicate and beautiful creations was sacrificed without fulfilling the law, yet none of its species ever served so glorious a cause, for at last Mrs. Comstock's inner vision had cleared.
At the first movement of the youth, he too had leapt to his feet, and brandished the terrible weapon that served in the double capacity of pipe and hatchet.
But although it served to relieve the animal wants of the man, there was little to remove his moral inquietude.
Still, there were periods, even now, when its sullen hinges were to be heard moaning on the midnight breeze; for it served as a medium of communication between the besieged and others who were no less critically circumstanced than themselves.
You put as much work into that Language of Flowers as would have served three years bookmaking if you had only drawn boldly, coloured truly, and given 6 for 60 pages.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "served" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
