The Scotch volunteers who had been serving in the Thirty Years War streamed home at the call of their brethren; and General Leslie, a veteran trained under Gustavus, came from Sweden to take the command of the new forces.
In what way could The Bookman serve the interests of American literature in which it was not already serving them?
Forbes Dennis, who, recovering from dangerous wounds in the war, has been serving as passport officer at Vienna.
Doran Company, serving not only as editor of The Bookman but acting in other editorial capacities.
You are not serving a government, gentlemen; you are serving a people.
But they have played their part in serving to convince us at last that that Government entertains no real friendship for us and means to act against our peace and security at its convenience.
The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand and know that in performing it we are serving our country.
Is that not something to be proud of, that you know how to use force like men of conscience and like gentlemen, serving your fellow-men and not trying to overcome them?
That is the way in which men grow distinguished, and that is the only way, by serving somebody else than themselves.
Tis the only thing that providence could have contrived to make me capable of serving you, either to my inclination or your own necessity.
Where she's serving you, as all your sex ought to be served, making you a beast.
We render service to God, madame, in serving a prince so unfortunate, a queen so virtuous.
Well, it is a question of serving the king, the gentleman's duty.
We still remain four friends devoted to each other; but when it becomes a question of serving the cardinal or of fighting him, of being Mazarinists or Frondists, then we are only two.
It has come about that no viceroy, serving a woman, who is the guardian of a boy, can be permitted to starve at his pleasure two hundred thousand of God's children.
But there is another power still more important than either the judicial or legislative; to wit, the power of injuring or serving by immediate force and violence, for which it is difficult to obtain redress in courts of justice.
He was ever engaged in hereditary or personal animosities or confederacies with his neighbors, and often gave protection to all desperate adventurers and criminals, who could be useful in serving his violent purposes.
By the end of June, 9 out of 10 who were serving in the armed forces on VE-day will have been released.
Its value in servingthe cause of peace has been shown anew in its role in the West New Guinea settlement, in its use as a forum for the Cuban crisis, and in its task of unification in the Congo.
Careful supervision is absolutely necessary to protect the investor and enable these banks to exercise their chief function in serving agriculture.
We can find meaning and reward by serving some purpose higher than ourselves--a shining purpose, the illumination of a thousand points of light.
After serving to defend the national security, these measures began in July to show their weight and influence toward improvement of conditions in many parts of the country.
More adequate training programs to equip career employees of the government to render improved public service will be recommended, as will improvements in the laws affecting employees serving on foreign assignments.
I have pledged myself and my colleagues in the cabinet to a continuous encouragement of initiative, responsibility and energy in serving the public interest.
Frank Everett, who is serving his time in Portland prison.
Yes, of course, you must remember that--he is serving his time now in Portland.
Supper was served in state, the handsomest youths of the best families in Brabant serving at table, according to the old Brabant custom.
Primarily, therefore, his own household are his care, for the law of nature and of society gives him readier access to them and greater opportunity of serving them.
A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry.
A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and servingas a symbol of death.
An iron mold or portion of a mold, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
Rendering action or motion difficult or toilsome; serving to obstruct or hinder; burdensome; clogging.
An order of insects having the anterior pair of wings (elytra) hard and horny, and serving as coverings for the posterior pair, which are membranous, and folded transversely under the others when not in use.
Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.
They make fine specimens as well as serving the purpose of greenery for cut flowers.
At B is a vine-covered screen, serving as a hammock support.
A better method of bolting, and one which insures a neat appearance of the branch in addition to serving as the most certain safeguard against the entrance of disease, is to counter-sink the nut in the bark and imbed it in portland cement.
Very large cavities with great openings are generally bricked on the outside, over the opening, and filled on the inside with concrete, the brick serving the purpose of a retaining wall to hold the concrete in place.
If Congress does not increase the pay of officers serving here, I should still be willing to return, in the expectation that my private interests would justify a measure which would otherwise be certain to impoverish me.
Macdonald, however, first begged the Prince to partake of some refreshment, which he did; the top of a rock serving for a table.
A sort of platform was laid over the new building of the Castle, and an ensign with a guard of twenty-five soldiers placed on this to defend that part from serving as a lodgement to the besiegers.
He reminded Murat of an old promise to give him the command of one of the Italian regiments then serving in Spain.
Like many others of the exiles, he preferred serving as a volunteer to remaining idle, and accordingly joined a company of riflemen intended to be mounted, but who, from the scarcity of horses, were for the most part on foot.
I replied instantly, that I was serving in the army of Arragon, but that I made no parade of my affections.
On this vertical connecting-shaft the water pump is located, serving to steady the motion of the shaft.
These struts 28 and 29 form truss-skids projecting in front of the whole frame of the machine and serving to prevent the machine from rolling over forward when it alights.
After all, his Saturday papers in the Spectator are as fine as any sermons of that age, and he perhaps did more good serving as a volunteer than had he been a regular soldier in the army of the Christian faith.
It then little thought that it would end in being only the neck of a bottle serving as a bird's glass--an honourable state of existence truly, but still something.
They helped to close in the world about old Fort Duggan, deepening the gloom of its aged walls, and serving to aggravate the shadow of superstition with which the native mind surrounded it.
Had she discovered Marcel for the sole purpose ofserving Lorson Harris?
Parson" Williams, serving the Union forces as a teamster, hauled munitions and supplies for General Grant's army, at Gettysburg.
The whole of last year's Oxford Eight and the great majority of the cricket and football teams are serving the King.
An hour before serving remove the beef (which is to be placed in a covered dish at the side of the stove) and strain the gravy.
Just before serving cut the bread into thin slices, place them in a soup tureen, and add some of the carrot, leeks, and onions cut into small pieces.
When this thickens to a thin cream, add the mushrooms; just beforeserving add 1/2 cup of cream.
Before it boils take the saucepan off the fire and add 1 cup of thick tomato sauce, strain, and just before serving add 1 tablespoon of sweet herbs minced fine.
At the moment of serving thicken the ragout with two yolks of eggs mixed with the juice of a lemon, 1 oz.
The characteristic feature of this stanza is the presence of two short lines riming together and serving as "tails" to the first and second parts of the body of the stanza.
The effect is therefore closely allied to that of blank verse; the rimes, not being emphasized by marked pauses, serving rather as means of tone color than as organizers of the verse.
