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Sentences starting with served

Served Tooting right, too. [9]
Served her right, though. [9]
Served you right. [6]
Served him right. [5]

Sentences ending with served

The inn is very neat inside, and we are well served. [4]
Fulkerson came back to March, who had turned toward Conrad Dryfoos, and said, "If we don't get this thing going pretty soon, it 'll be the death of me," and just then Frescobaldi's butler came in and announced to Dryfoos that dinner was served. [8]
The vein on the little doctor's high forehead swelled with wrath as he listened to this boastful chatter, which did not cease until the first dish was served. [10]
They began to shout hoarsely, with what voices they had left, for Mr. Stewart to come out, calling him names not to be spoken, and swearing they would show him how traitors were to be served. [9]
Coffee and fruit served. [5]
I've been well served. [11]
It was dim, only a shade lighter than the dark ramparts, but he distinguished it, and that served. [13]
I answered as my readings of the champions of my side of the great controversy had taught me to answer: that a man can't handle glibly and easily and comfortably and successfully the argot of a trade at which he has not personally served. [5]
It was not moved by a pure patriotism, but what it was moved by served. [11]
For the money just flies --first come first served. [5]

Short sentences using served

Henry was served last. [5]
Meals served at all hours. [5]

Sentences containing served two or more times

This at least the war did: it served as a sieve to sift the people, and it served as the solvent of many a life-problem. [11]
If I should live a hundred years, I should wish nothing better than the honour of having served the men whose forefathers served Frontenac, Cartier, La Salle and Maisonneuve, and all the splendid heroes of that ancient age. [11]

More example sentences with the word served in them

Fresh proof of your maxim, mother: if you want to be well served you must buy rascals! [10]
A sterner court would examine the case in Sydney--the Court of Directors, the lords of a company in whose ships the captain had served as mate a number of years. [5]
In her satisfaction with this, and from her good nature, she was contented to be served with her refreshments after the concert by Mr. March, and to remain joking with him. [8]
Contrast these reports with the lively and faithful pictures of the French Assembly which are served to the Paris papers. [4]
They had served with Nicholls in Spain, but not having eaten King Louis's bread, eyed all Frenchmen askance, and were not needlessly courteous to Iberville, whose achievements they could scarce appreciate, having done no Indian fighting. [11]
I do not wish to put him in the ranks, nor yet to give him a commission, to which those who have already served long are better entitled and better qualified to hold. [7]
But he was wise in his own way, which was not the way of those who had reason to bless him for ever, and who forgot him, though he had served them through so many years. [11]
Kitty--it was she who had so thoughtfully served him; Kitty, with the instinct of strong, unselfish womanhood, with the gift of the outdoor life, with the unpurchasable gift of friendship. [11]
My Persian servant, who had served as overlooker in Amasis' stables and had seen Bartja there, assisted by the old Egyptian who accompanied me, was very helpful, and asserted untiringly that the wounded man could be no other than your brother. [10]
A coarse barmaid, who had grown up in the camp, served the assembled men, but she had no occasion to hurry, for the Spaniards were slow drinkers. [10]
Powhatan served the whites with the best he had, and best of all with a friendly welcome and with interesting discourse of the country. [4]
The squadron in which Nicholas Rostov served as a cadet was quartered in the German village of Salzeneck. [2]
The reward for which my Hans modestly served me, this bold warrior cared not to win. [10]
They are features which might well have served to extend the remark of Madame de Stael that a great historian is almost a statesman. [6]
The image in which he had fixed his recollection of its original served only to keep her living presence before him. [6]
The regiment in which Hans Eitelfritz served, and the other companies of lansquenets, had succumbed to the temptation, and only waited the signal for revolt. [10]
It was true what you said, that I was wild and utterly useless, I had never served or pleased any but myself,--and you. [9]
Austrian column guides were moving in and out among the Russian troops and served as heralds of the advance. [2]
It hath served well in England. [11]
I served two weeks in the beginning of our Civil War, and during all that tune commanded a battery of infantry composed of twelve men. [5]
And for once we saw an officer of the Louisiana Regiment resplendent in a uniform that might have served at court. [9]
In his own way he found out that the man had been a soldier in the ranks, and that he had served in India. [11]
Priest though he was, he was also an expert river- man, and his vast strength served him royally. [11]
One sauce which was served us was a gastronomic symphony, the harmonies of which were new to me and pleasing. [6]
The table d'ho^te was served by waitresses dressed in the quaint and comely costume of the Swiss peasants. [5]
The sun's light was obscured, but the gigantic frames of huge burning galleys served for torches to light the combatants. [10]
Across the top was laid a beam, to which the rope was fastened, and a dry-goods box served for the platform. [5]
I supposed he was at least an archbishop, from the retinue of priests who attended and served him, and also from his great size. [4]
But "a nobler want of man is served by Nature, namely, the love of _Beauty_" which is his next subject. [6]
It is a very onerous business, this of being served, and the debtor naturally wishes to give you a slap. [6]
It always rubbed very hard on my feelings to offer money to any persons who had served me well, as if they were doing it for their own pleasure. [6]
Refreshments were served us, among which were some hot-house peaches, ethereally delicate as if they had grown in the Elysian Fields and been stolen from a banquet of angels. [6]
Soon we came upon a row of open graves, cut in the solid rock--(for a while one of them served Socrates for a prison)--we passed around the shoulder of the hill, and the citadel, in all its ruined magnificence, burst upon us! [5]
The sudden flaring up of this trivial incident served to re-establish her identity, to light a fuse along which her mind began to run like fire, illuminating redly all the events of the day before. [9]
Then we lit up and had a supper, and the king and the duke fairly laughed their bones loose over the way they'd served them people. [5]
These men, who under the leadership of the tall lad were drinking in the dramshop that morning, had brought the publican some skins from the factory and for this had had drink served them. [2]
He set up type in a printing office; he acted as an assistant in a bookstore; he served as clerk in a post-office. [4]
A bullet or two, a button, a brass plate from a soldier's belt, served well enough for mementos of my visit, with a letter which I picked up, directed to Richmond, Virginia, its seal unbroken. [6]
It consisted of two kinds of wine; tea, bread, cheese, and cold meats, and was served on the centre-tables in the reception room and the verandahs--anywhere that was convenient; there was no ceremony. [5]
He smiled, then turned his head away, for old memories flashed through his brain--he had been an acolyte once; he had served at the altar. [11]
I've served the Tsar and my countwy honowably and have not stolen! [2]
Through all his troubles, he held grimly to the ideal which meant more to him than ease and comfort,--that he had served his country for the love of it. [9]
I've served three traders here, and my record is pretty clean, Mr. Fyles. [11]
Frequently their sparring took the form of a serious discussion, which served a double purpose; first their minds, accustomed to serious thought, found exercise in spite of the murderous pressure of the burden of forced labor, and secondly, they were supposed really to be enemies. [10]
The Scarabee had too much respect for science to answer such a question as that; and the book, having served its purposes, was passed back to the Lady. [6]
To fear or to try to escape that force, to address entreaties or exhortations to those who served as its tools, was useless. [2]
If we add to them those at large who have served one or two terms, and are generally known to the police, we shall not have probably more than eighty thousand of the criminal class. [4]
Dear Sir:--In regard to the time David Rankin served the enclosed discharge shows correctly--as well as I can recollect--having no writing to refer. [7]
But to return to the festival of Archias: the oyster ragout served there, the pheasant pasties--" Here he interrupted himself, exclaiming in surprise: "By the club of Hercules, the Proserpina is to be received with a full chorus! [10]
But she hesitated to reply, and ere he could win from her even the faintest shadow of consent, Ernst Ortlieb, who had been talking with other members of the council in the room where the wine was served, interrupted him to take his daughter home. [10]
He then began to pace the room in deep thought, often going to the opening which served as a window, to cool his burning forehead and see if dawn were near. [10]
Though a desire to meet and talk with quality pushed him hard, he would not go a step to the ordinary, and gave orders to be served in our room, thus fostering the mystery which had enveloped us since our arrival. [9]
The Indians used to hold their "powwows," or magical incantations, upon a broad mound which rose out of the common level, and where some old hemlocks and beeches formed a dark grove, which served them as a temple for their demon-worship. [6]
He was said to have served under Napoleon as a sapper, and afterwards settled in our neighbourhood, and found occupation in Keilhau. [10]
At sixteen minutes to eight a mild excitement occurred, an incident of some significance which served to detain many waverers. [9]
Campbell was elected to Congress, and served out his term. [7]
They all grew to be brave men and loyal subjects of their father, whom they served faithfully in war, holding fraternally together and greatly enlarging the boundaries of his dukedom by their prowess. [10]
Smith they conducted to a long house, where thirtie or fortie tall fellowes did guard him, and ere long more bread and venison were brought him then would have served twentie men. [4]
You are a time-expired man, to use Kipling's military phrase: You have served your term, well or less well, and you are mustered out. [5]
The money they thus earned served to help maintain the poorer scholars, and to be sure, my brother was ready to forego his share; nay, and a great part of his own pocket-money went to those twelve, for among them were comrades he truly loved. [10]
Oysters served in this fashion, needless to say, had never formed part of the menu in Fillmore Street, or in any Hampton restaurant where she had lunched. [9]
He well knew there was no man in the Cabinet or among his colleagues that would stir to help him--he had stirred to help no man in all the years he had served the public. [11]
Its unexpected appearance there had served to break the current of his meditations. [9]
They fell into their places of master and man as accurately as though the one had smitten and the other served for twenty years. [11]
The sound of their approaching and receding steps had only served to make her aware of the complete stillness. [10]
It will serve thee no better than it served the late Earl. [11]
Their leaders were the worst class in our province, being mostly convicts who had served their terms of indenture. [9]
I soon felt the warmest appreciation of the Roman comedies, which served as the foundation of these studies. [10]
The whistle of the up-train served to strengthen his resolution, for he was reminded thereby that his mill often had occasion to ask favors of the Truro Railroad. [9]
On the return--and the twenty miles seemed short enough--lunch was served, and was the occasion of a good deal of hilarity and innocent badinage. [4]
Mr. Carvel was the third lieutenant of the 'Bon homme Richard', tho' he served as second in the action. [9]
Yet we on the Terror of France served our good general, too; for one dark night, when the wind was fair, we piloted the remaining ships of Admiral Holmes's division above the town. [11]
Hastily drawing aside the shutters from one of the openings which served as windows, she looked out. [10]
Yes, he was the same Peter, but her absence from him had served to sharpen her sense of certain characteristics. [9]
I stick to the old gods whom my Olympias served, and she always did the best in everything. [10]
A pool served the office of refrigerator, and Mr. Cooke had devised an ingenious but complicated arrangement of strings and labels which enabled him to extract any bottle or set of bottles without having to bare his arm and pull out the lot. [9]
At five in the morning, the bathers enter it, and remain until ten o'clock,--five hours, having breakfast served to them on the floating tables, "as they sail, as they sail. [4]
She went to the kitchen herself to see if my mince-pie were hot, and served me with her own hands. [9]
Almost every day the interrogatories of the morning lasted three or four hours; then from these morning interrogatories they extracted the particularly difficult and subtle points, and these served as material for the afternoon interrogatories, which lasted two or three hours. [5]
Either most of the horsemen have served in the cavalry, or horsemanship, that noble art "to witch the world," is in high repute here. [4]
There too was the history, coming much nearer home, of Deborah Sampson, the young woman who served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, with a portrait of her in man's attire, looking intrepid rather than lovely. [6]
He worked with the French and for the French and against the English, and he made the English very tired and the French very happy, and lived to have the joy of seeing the flag he served publicly hissed. [5]
It had brought the Eysvogels no good fortune, for on the day of its completion the business received its first serious blow, and it also served to injure the commercial house externally in a very obvious manner. [10]
The courtiers explained the Emperor's neglect of him by His Majesty's displeasure at Bolkonski's not having served since 1805. [2]
I have served the emperor willingly, but before I consent become the wife of such a monster--" "She is right," broke in Euryale, and drew Melissa toward her. [10]
He has served the Emperor twenty-five years, and during this time he lost all his brothers in the war. [10]
At last, when the dance was all over, the guilds with the town-pipers betook them to the head constable's quarters, where they were served with drink and ate the Shrove-Tuesday meal of fish which was given in their honor. [10]
The meeting of the Council, which would soon begin, served as a pretence for leaving them. [10]
Peter, who was the complement of all who loved and served her, of Aunt Mary and Uncle Tom and Catherine, and who somehow embodied them all. [9]
The fact that the cheers were mingled with hisses merely served to drive me on. [9]
His world was the battlefield from which he directed the forces of the great corporation which he served, and the cherished vision of a son in whom he could confide his plans, upon whose aid and counsel he could lean, was gone forever. [9]
The ticking of the ancient clock only served to intensify the silence. [9]
Why, it was that very supernumerary fish, which we held of so little account, but which had wedged itself into the rent of the yawning planks, and served to keep out the water until the leak was finally stopped. [6]
There are men that support it, that are served by it, that fill their pockets out of it; but by Joseph and by Mary, there's none thinks there couldn't be a better! [11]
Its preparation and that of more minute plots of the new city consumed the valuable time of Sellers and Harry for many weeks, and served to keep them both in the highest spirits. [5]
There were rumours that he had been in gaol in Quebec for robbery, and that after he had served his time he had dug up the money he had stolen and come West. [11]
It turned out that he and the judge had been served with luncheon in the Ethiopian card-room, and neither threats nor fair words could draw him away. [9]
For the pen that had served Joan of Arc could not serve any that would come after her in this earth without abasement. [5]
I have served ten years as commander of the Greek mercenaries in Egypt, and not ingloriously. [10]
It began with tears and reminded Cleopatra of the saying that she herself resembled a banquet served to celebrate a victory before the battle was won. [10]

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