The stuff that's wound upon these 'ere pieces of wood," pouncing as she spoke upon one of my most serviceable spools.
His next care was to put his rifle in serviceable condition, and then as morning broke they hastened away from the fatal camp.
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The Referee has been unable to secure reliable clinical evidence that Iron Cacodylate is a serviceable preparation.
Mr. Garnett did not share the prejudice felt by some farmers against the rook, which he held to be serviceable to man.
Chu, like many revolutionaries before and after him, recognized that these people had been serviceable in the years of struggle but could no longer remain useful.
In addition to a serviceable canal to the south, Yang Ti made another that went north almost to the present Peking.
They are therefore a much more serviceable element.
He was anti-intellectual and emotionally attached to Buddhism; he opposed Confucianism for emotional reasons and believed that it could give him no serviceable officials of the sort he wanted.
In fact he was disposed, as Phrynichus had truly said about him,[62] to avail himself indifferently of either, according as the one or the other presented itself as a serviceable agency for his ambitious views.
The period of his life really serviceable to his country, and really glorious to himself, was that of three years ending with his return to Athens in 407 B.
My natural aptitude for manipulation, whether in mechanical or chemical operations, proved very serviceable to myself as well as to others; and (as will be shown hereafter) it gained for me the friendship of many distinguished scientific men.
So the Thessalians, being stripped of allies, upon this took the side of the Medes with a good will and no longer half-heartedly, so that in the course of events they proved very serviceable to the king.
If it then thinks of the things it spoke of when its understanding was in elevation, it can laugh at them and speak of them merely as serviceable to it in captivating the souls of men.
Those things that are harmful to man are called uses because they are of use to the evil in doing evil, and also are serviceable in absorbing malignities and thus also as remedies.
Still man flatters himself that the wisdom of his understanding may be made serviceable as a means to honor, glory, or gain.
The horses had been cut loose, still this capture was a very serviceable acquisition to the outfit of the army, especially in entrenching tools.
Splendid and serviceable house shoes were made from the products of the loom, the cobbler only putting on the soles.
Lazarus says they stand "like well-armed men in the inner stronghold of the mind ready to sally forth and overcome or make serviceable whatever shows itself at the portals of sense.
All the forces and bounties of nature are to be made serviceable to us and it can only be done by understanding her facts and laws.
The best combination of these very different qualities, or that which will upon the whole produce the most serviceable ship, is yet to be sought.
The arsenal at Augusta was very serviceable to the armies serving in the south and west, and turned out a good deal of field-artillery complete.
The State had few serviceable weapons, and no establishment for their manufacture or repair.
The States and the volunteer companies did, however, possess some serviceable batteries.
There were no batteries of serviceable field-artillery at the arsenals, but a few old iron guns mounted on Gribeauval carriages fabricated about 1812.
At Little Rock, Arkansas, there were a few thousand stands, and a few at the Texas Arsenal, increasing the aggregate of serviceable arms to about one hundred and forty-three thousand.
All these were very serviceable to this gracious prince, of I know not what country, in his adventures; and they were often brought into my mind by the companions whom we picked up on the grass-grown roads.
Now I well saw what chance I had of bringing that devil to justice, for who would believe so strange a tale as mine against one so serviceable in the war?
I was of no avail against this wolf, whom all men praised, so serviceable was he to the town.
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The eyes are large, perfectly formed, and as serviceable as those of the fishes on which they prey.
This remains as a serviceable weapon and ornament of the buck until the beginning of winter, when its attachment to the skull loosens, and the antler drops off.
This is supplemented in most species by the capability of changing color, a faculty that is most serviceable in the chameleons, by rendering them more or less invisible to the hawks and other animals that try to catch and eat them.
I was often invited thither; they consulted me about their affairs, and I had been sometimes serviceable to them.
In a very short time I made great proficiency in this business, and became very serviceable to my brother.
He thanked me very sincerely, the information it contained being of consequence to him; and from that moment bestowed on me his friendship, which afterwards proved on many occasions serviceable to me.
These friends were very serviceableto me in the end, as was I also, upon occasion, to some of them; and they have continued ever since their esteem for me.
We found empty tea cans and empty bully-beef tins, and by manipulating barbed wire we speedily converted these crude materials into serviceable culinary implements.
There were three full waggons of lime-juice and other unnecessary articles which I caused to be unloaded at the first halting-place to make room for more serviceable provisions.
A voice from the crowd exclaimed that a good healthy skunk would be far more serviceable than that old lion.
Such things do not break bones or otherwise injure people, more especially if nature has endowed them with good, thick, serviceable skins, and in this respect she had been considerate to the subject of our history.
Buccaneer having now had a good serviceable religion manufactured for him, and having also been fitted out with a good elastic and easily worked conscience, he was himself again.
Archbishop of Cincinnati: "I think the work will be a veryserviceable one.
The book may be used as a textbook or catechism for the more advanced classes, and the complete list of numbered questions on the explanations--given at the end--will render it very serviceable for that purpose.
Every single promise, the most unlikely for Him to lean upon and to plead, yet, be sure of it, He somehow made experiment upon them all, and made sure that there was sufficient and serviceablegrace within and under every one of them.
