Meanings of highly serviceable in English

On the other hand, the free blacks were highly serviceable in repelling them.

In another point of view, this locality would be highly serviceable for stations.

Both are highly serviceable for individual expediency in a life looking to invidious success.

As a remedy, sea bathing is highly serviceable.

This device is extensively used by the German aviators, and has proved highly serviceable; a similar contrivance is adopted by French airmen.

But there was no unanimity among them-someconsidering that unadvisable which others considered highly serviceable; and there was much indecision in their councils.

This latter fact deserves attention, because the colour of the legs and beak is highly serviceable in discriminating the several closely allied wild forms.

As the loquacity of the Call duck is highly serviceable, these birds being used in decoys, this quality may have been increased by selection.