Meanings of so serviceable in English

I really did not imagine that they could have been so serviceable.

These half-fronds are neither so durable nor so serviceable as if the midrib is left entire.

I was of no avail against this wolf, whom all men praised, so serviceable was he to the town.

Not even a brother's gratitude would be so serviceable to her as the generous kindness of a devoted friend.

Everything was very simple, but looked so serviceable that she accepted, judging that she ran no risk of being poisoned.

To deracinate Lowell was impossible, and it was for this very reason that he became so serviceable an international personage.

The snow-shoes, too, which are so serviceable when you are above them, become exasperatingly obstructive when you are below them.

It worked far less rapidly, and was not near so serviceable, as the Parliament which had so quickly condemned Henry Howard.

What is it, let us inquire, that makes the Mexican mule hardy, trim, robust, well-marked after the jack, and so serviceable?

It is tiresome everlastingly to wear black, but nothing is so serviceable, nothing so unrecognizable, nothing looks so well on every occasion.

One day, walking solitary in the lanes, she met that sturdy farmer to whose daughter she had in former days been so serviceable.

Ought we not, therefore, to manifest another sort of gratitude in favor of the individual who was so serviceable in last night's gust?

He knew the lieutenant had reloaded his revolver after making with it the holes across the board which had proved so serviceable to them.

Exorbitant vanity and vagrant loves made the Syrian rather a dangerous agent; but it was largely owing to these weaknesses that he proved so serviceable.

Very close and handy are his tall jack-boots-soserviceable in wet weather and heavy mud.

"You know the young woman they call Mother Bunch, who appears to be so serviceable and persevering?"