Significados de sorry service en inglés

They tender the child a sorry service.

That old fool of a Dutchman who preserved me for posterity, did me but a sorry service.

She had loaded her fingers with old-fashioned rings, of which the very dullness made me wince to see them employed in this sorry service.

They had cured him there so often that they could once more do him the sorry service of putting him on his pins again.

"And would be rendering your ex-chief but a sorry service," interposed Chauvelin with quiet irony.

"Thou mayst be a good servant to France," he murmured, "but it is an ill service, a sorry service, thou dost the Church!"