The XII-century monastic storehouse now servesas a house of detention.
The easy hill of the town serves as pedestal for Chartres Cathedral.
Beaune's hospital hall, that indubitably copied Tonnerre's, serves still the charitable purpose for which it was founded.
The roofless nave now servesas an archæological museum.
The side aisles were covered by a quarter-barrel vaulting that servesthe purpose of a continuous flying buttress.
The hand of bats, which serves these animals not merely for flying, but also supplies the place of eyes and ears, enabling them to avoid objects during the obscurity of night, is furnished with a sense of touch extremely delicate.
It indicates a great number of the delicate papillæ of touch, and serves to denote a sensitive hand.
The anxiety of the Spartans for the legitimacy of their kings, also serves to prove the high importance which was attached to the genuineness of their birth.
This process servesboth to enhance and preserve the beauty of the colours, and in some degree to counteract the destructive influence of the atmosphere and of insects.
This is merely thin size and water with a little whiting: it serves to wash and smooth the walls and stop suction.
What we put into serving it we know serves a useful and worthy purpose, whereas the outcome of our struggles in life is never assured completely, and is certainly insignificant compared to the Faith’s importance.
Both the surface of the type and of the wax are thoroughly coated with plumbago or black lead, which serves as a lubricant to prevent the wax from adhering to the type.
Of course it often happens that an artist is taken up with ideas of technique and, author or no author, will make his pictures in just such a way; but such work is hardly illustration and serves itself better standing alone.
Most important is the brief note on the front that serves to indicate the quality of the volume and thus guide the purchaser.
This is technically known as a dummy, andserves to show the prospective buyer merely the outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual appeal to public favor.
The upper opening serves for the head, and two lateral holes are cut to admit the arms.
A Finland newspaper mentions a stone in the northern part of Finland which serves the inhabitants instead of a barometer.
Custom doth often reason overrule, And only serves for reason to the fool.
It is found attached to the upper jaw, andserves to strain the water which the whale takes into its mouth, and to retain the small animals upon which it subsists.
Upward to the middle of the thigh, a piece of leather or cloth, fitting closely, serves instead of pantaloons and stockings: it is usually sewed on to the limb, and is never removed.
The Americans hunt and shoot those animals not so much for the sake of the flesh as of the fat, which serves as tallow in making candles, and the skins, which they dispose of to the Hudson's Bay Company.
I accept these divisions, because they conform to the simplest principles of rational criticism; and though their combination does not form an Epic, it serves at least to amplify the region and elevate the objects of Romance.
O, grace, my liege, for surely each The dame he serves should peerless hold, To loyal eye and faithful breast The loved one is the loveliest.
The interjected geographical reference serves to support the identification of the Sinaitic covenant with Hagar, Arabia being the well-known abode of the Hagarenes.
To cherish this mistrust, to withhold our sympathy from him who serves us in spiritual things, this, the Apostle declares, is not merely a wrong done to the man, it is an affront to God Himself.
Justly has he marked with the brand of this fiery anathema the false minister, "who serves not the Lord Christ, but his own belly.
The other's weakness serves for a foil to his strength.
It applies only to that class which serves a function somewhat similar to that served by the populace of old time in Rome.
That the natural heat that springs from the sun of the worldserves spiritual heat as a receptacle is evident from the heat of the body, which is excited by the heat of its spirit, and is a kind of substitute for that heat in the body.
And as it is the spiritual only that lives and not the material, it can be seen that whatever lives in man is his spirit, and that the body merelyserves it, just as what is instrumental serves a moving living force.
This shows that it is a medium of conjunction of heaven with man, and that its literal sense serves as a base and foundation.
This remains fixed and becomes quiescent, but stillserves their thought after death as an outmost plane, since the thought flows into it.
A spirit when he is sent forth, and serves as a subject thinks from those by whom he is sent forth and not from himself (n.
Therefore man was created to have the world in him serve heaven, and this takes place with the good; but it is the reverse with the evil, in whom heaven serves the world (n.
Now, among the relevant facts, one of the most manifest is that pain serves to warn animals against what would injure or destroy them.
It serves other known ends, such as raising the tides, and may serve many ends wholly unknown to us.
The efficiency with which a worker serves industry will be the test of his patriotic fervor, as his service in the army is made the test during this time of war.
But as a state serves special individuals it belies its professed reason for existence, and in America is in danger of falling from grace, so far, that is, as the common people are concerned.
It serves no great purpose in the suppression of the propagande par le fait.
These understand perfectly that a menace of war with a neighbour serves to justify the existence of the armies which are their main prop.
A single fish, or a bird or squirrel, now and then, serves to mitigate, if it does not satisfy, hunger.
I consider that the country ought to feel under obligations to one who servesher at such a sacrifice.
Of the two canoes, one is smaller than the other, and the smaller serves by way of an outrigger.
Saussure relates an anecdote which serves to give an idea of the Savoyards in these situations, so remote from the corruption incident to cities.
It is situated about 400 feet above the level of the lake, from which it is distant about half a league; the village of Ouchy servesas its port, and carries on a good deal of trade.
They also use a good deal of duffel cloth, which they buy from us, and which serves for their blanket by night, and their dress by day.
It is reason itself, and it serves nothing to reiterate his arguments.
And thus it comes about that every philosophic theoryserves to explain and justify an ethic, a doctrine of conduct, which has its real origin in the inward moral feeling of the author of the theory.
For life is of use only in so far as it serves its lord and master, spirit, and if the master perishes with the servant, neither the one nor the other is of any great value.
Thus all opposition to the will, the order of God, servesbut to render it more adorable.
It is neither by books nor curious research that we become learned in the science of God: these means of themselves give us but a vain knowledge, which only serves to confuse us and inflate us with pride.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "serves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
