Wiser people may call it trifling, but it serves to sweeten life to me, and is worst better than the generality of conversation.

"The fishery of this part of the river belongs to me; and my fisherman's little boat (where I have a green lutestring awning) serves me for a barge.

A tone, a look, a grasp of the hand serves for an index, quite as well as the most fervent speech.

If you would peace I might heare what they say; the wind serves to bring every word they speake: they make towards, yes, towards this Citty.

Now, every bluejacket proper serves continuously, and has been in the navy since boyhood.

The multitude of books serves only to show how many false paths there are, and how widely astray a man may wander if he follows any of them.

But where there is one case of this sort, there will be a hundred where it merely serves to take all responsibility from the man who cannot stand by what he has said, or possibly to conceal the shame of one who has been cowardly and base enough to recommend a book to the public for the purpose of putting money into his own pocket.

Work that serves some practical end, or ministers directly to some pleasure of the senses, will never have any difficulty in being duly appreciated.

To be so, they must be reasonably true to the human comedy; and any work that is so serves the turn of instruction.

History serves us well to this effect, but in the originals, not in the pages of the popular epitomiser, who is bound, by the very nature of his task, to make us feel the difference of epochs instead of the essential identity of man, and even in the originals only to those who can recognise their own human virtues and defects in strange forms, often inverted and under strange names, often interchanged.

And the housekeeping?the rent, food, and clothing, which controversy can hardly supply unless it be of the kind that serves as a recommendation to certain posts.

I have been amazed to find that some artists whose own works have the ideal stamp, are quite insensible to the damaging tendency of the burlesquing spirit which ranges to and fro and up and down on the earth, seeing no reason (except a precarious censorship) why it should not appropriate every sacred, heroic, and pathetic theme which serves to make up the treasure of human admiration, hope, and love.

On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.

From a plain of whitish-grey soil, covered with concentric shells as large as a nut, rises a circular embankment with gently-sloping sides, intersected only by a small cleft which serves as an entrance, and which shows, on its edges denuded of vegetation, the loose rapilli of which the embankment is formed.

For poisoning an arrow they use a piece of the size of a hazel-nut, which, after being warmed, is distributed uniformly over the broad iron point; and the poisoned arrow serves for repeated use.

These houses, which are always built on piles on account of the humidity of the soil, often consist of a single shed, which serves for all the uses of a dwelling, and are the cause of great laxity and of filthy habits,

The breaking of the auriferous rock is effected with two stones; of which one serves as anvil, and the other as hammer.

The workman with a jerk forces the stone that serves for hammer down upon the auriferous rock, and allows it to be again carried upwards by the elasticity of the young tree.

Under the thatched roof of our hut, which serves as a shelter to occasional hunters, more than a hundred and fifty lower jaw-bones were set up as hunting trophies.

How much better were it for our matrons to do as she did, to go civilly and decently, [5038]Honestae mulieris instar quae utitur auro pro eo quod est, ad ea tantum quibus opus est, to use gold as it is gold, and for that use it serves, and when they need it, than to consume it in riot, beggar their husbands, prostitute themselves, inveigle others, and peradventure damn their own souls?

Whether this be a true story, or a tale, I will not much contend, it serves to illustrate this which I have said.

"That comes of communing with Nature," she reminded him; "and it serves you rightly, for natural communications corrupt good epigrams.

John serves Thomas with his hands, and Thomas serves John with his money.

We mean by standard money that kind, no matter what its form, which serves in any country as the unit in which the value of other kinds of money is expressed.

The fundamental use that money serves is to apportion one's income conveniently as it accrues and as it is spent.