...His shoes, stout and serviceable, were decked with buckles of cheap, lack-lustre paste... 
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
... “Keep your eyes and ears constantly open; collect every means of attack which may be serviceable against others; never let anything lie about which can be used against ourselves...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Ten Years Later」
...They then sew themselves in for the winter, fastening allof the crevices in the nest so securely with silken webbingthat a very serviceable winter cocoon is formed...
Clarence M. Weed 「Butterflies Worth Knowing」
...It is a greatmistake to suppose that severity of treatment is necessary to theeducation of a dog, or that it is serviceable in making him steady...
Edward Jesse 「Anecdotes of Dogs」
...A cordial ball, with catechu and opium, willoften be serviceable either before or after a journey...
Richard L. Allen 「Domestic Animals」
...It is scarcely possible to doubt that the long-continued selection of qualities serviceable to man has been the chief agent in the formation of the several breeds of the horse...
Charles Darwin 「The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.」
...It is, however, at the lambing-time, when sheep andlambs require to be so repeatedly caught, that the crook is moreparticularly serviceable...
Robert Jennings 「Sheep, Swine, and Poultry」
...There are few fields solean that they will not maintain serviceable horses...
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 「Domesticated Animals」
...The mule is especially interesting to the naturalist for the reasonthat it affords the only certain case in which a hybrid has proveddecidedly serviceable to man...
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 「Domesticated Animals」
...The feet of a duck are webbed between the forward toes,which makes them more serviceable as paddles in swimming...
John H. Robinson 「Our Domestic Birds」
...Changed "servicable" to "serviceable" on page 226: "more serviceable inthis way...
John H. Robinson 「Our Domestic Birds」
...The rude structure was doubly serviceable,—tome a shelter, and to the birds a fly-trap...
Bradford Torrey 「The Foot-path Way」
...Besides, the limy web, despite the rents suffered duringthe night, is still in serviceable condition...
J. H. Fabre 「The Wonders of Instinct」
...But though the serviceable littleimp roar till its black cheeks glow redas winter berries, it cannot make shantyor tent a camp in reality or impart to anouting its true flavor...
Rowland E. Robinson 「In New England Fields and Woods」
...Waffles' good graces—an ingratiation that hadbeen pretty serviceable to him, both in the way of meat, drink, mounting,and money...
R. S. Surtees 「Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour」
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