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Sentences ending with serving

How poorly the food was cooked, how unappetizing was the serving! [10]
It was a cavalry general who had obtained the Emperor's special favor during this campaign, and who had formerly commanded the division in which Rostov was serving. [2]

Short sentences using serving

So much for serving you. [11]

Sentences containing serving two or more times

I thought I was really serving my sovereign and the Fatherland, but it turns out that I am serving Barclay. [2]

More example sentences with the word serving in them

And insomuch as you were even then serving the country faithfully and bravely, and had a clean and honourable record of service, the whole of the lands were given to you. [9]
His letter is written to a burglar named Williams, who is serving a nine-year term in a certain State prison, for burglary. [5]
His voice broke with sheer grief; nevertheless his serving lad was carrying his lute after him, and as he gave me his hand to bid me good-day he told me that Ann was above tending her father. [10]
Striking his horse with his long muscular legs as if it were to blame for everything, the colonel moved forward and ordered the second squadron, that in which Rostov was serving under Denisov, to return to the bridge. [2]
He had lived with Farette the miller for some years, serving him with a kind of humble insolence. [11]
The Endowment Fund will be the most fitting of all the memorials the country will dedicate to the memory of Lincoln, serving, as it will, to uplift his very own people. [5]
Woe to those who call by its true name what those blind souls call pleasure and enjoyment as serving to hasten the flight of time--not too long at the most; woe to those who dare raise even a finger against it! [10]
And whereas I, who am but a poor and simple serving man, have never been fain to set my heart on one only maid, no less is to be looked for in my gracious master, who is rich and of noble birth. [10]
The squadron in which Rostov was serving had scarcely time to mount before it was halted facing the enemy. [2]
Clayton (now captain) was serving in that military department at the time. [5]
The baker's wife was not there, and her spinster sister-in-law, an elderly, ill-natured woman, was serving the customers in her place. [10]
I saw her walking along, hanging her head; the serving man carried the lantern before her, and the Bohemian was speaking close in her ear. [10]
Here was a vain, naturally indolent half-breed, whose life had made for selfishness and independence, giving his neck willingly to a man's heel, serving with blind reverence, under a voluntary vow. [11]
It is an unquestionable fact that during the reconstruction period which followed the war, more things were done capable of serving as dangerous precedents than during the war itself. [7]
He had sailed two cruises as master's mate of the Cabot, and was then serving as master of the Trumbull, Captain Saltonstall. [9]
For service done to me; and because there is none other worth serving in Egypt. [11]
I did venture to expostulate with him on the risk he must be running in serving out his term. [9]
Now they prepared to encamp and showed themselves diligent in serving old Nun, whom they sincerely loved. [10]
From time to time geniuses have appeared who knew how to compose a dinner; indeed, the art of doing it can be learned, as well as the art of cooking and serving it. [4]
Not merely in these cases but continually did that old man--who by experience of life had reached the conviction that thoughts and the words serving as their expression are not what move people--use quite meaningless words that happened to enter his head. [2]
The funds of the temple are insufficient to support two more serving maidens besides them and us, and so Arsinoe and Doris are only to pour out the libations for the future, and we are to sing the laments, and do the wailing. [10]
While Susan and the other serving folks, with certain of the retainers brought by our guests, were searching the house through, I hastily did on my shoes and garments for out-door wear, and albeit it was already dusk, I went forth. [10]
He was serving the Nepal Government in a high capacity at the Court of the Viceroy of India, twenty years ago. [5]
The command of the left flank belonged by seniority to the commander of the regiment Kutuzov had reviewed at Braunau and in which Dolokhov was serving as a private. [2]
With respect to the absence of fossil remains, serving to connect man with his ape-like progenitors, no one will lay much stress on this fact who reads Sir C. Lyell's discussion (19. [1]
It was thought that you would prefer Crook's commanding your part to your serving in person under Wright. [7]
The paper gets sympathy for its fearlessness in serving the public interests. [4]
He is a sort of expletive at the table, serving to stop gaps, taking the same place a washer does that makes a loose screw fit, and contriving to get driven in like a wedge between any two chairs where there is a crevice. [6]
The troops and ships of the victorious Caesar were close at hand; many of Gabinius' men were serving in the Egyptian army. [10]
He"--he indicated Petya--"is serving under him. [2]
We had nineteen serving men and twenty-six pack mules! [5]
He was now serving his apprenticeship in our grand uncle's business, and whereas the traffic was mainly with Venice he was to learn the Italian tongue with all diligence. [10]
There were neither salt spoons nor mustard spoons, the knives the gentlemen were eating with serving in their stead; and, by the aid of nature's forks, the slices of beef and mutton were transferred to the plates of those who desired to eat. [9]
There is even reason to suspect that the branching horns of stags, and the elegant horns of certain antelopes, though properly serving as weapons of offence or defence, have been partly modified for ornament. [1]
This past would prevent me from serving clients who might have righteous claims against your railroads, and--permit me to speak frankly--in my opinion the practice tends to make it difficult for poor people who have been injured to get efficient lawyers. [9]
This was a plan of campaign he had devised while serving at the outposts during the retreat. [2]
He and his party were in Louisville last fall, when I was serving in Kentucky, and came to my room in the Galt House. [9]
I wouldn't let one of 'em into my room without serving 'em as David served Saul at the cave in the wilderness,--cut off his skirts, Sir! [6]
But the command of the extreme left flank had been assigned to the commander of the Pavlograd regiment in which Rostov was serving, and a misunderstanding arose. [2]
A semicircular building of new construction adjoining the old palace was the theatre, and many large tents for the bodyguard, for ambassadors and scribes, as well as others, serving as banqueting-halls for the various court-officials, stood both within the garden and outside its enclosing walls. [10]
Anna Pavlovna was obviously serving him up as a treat to her guests. [2]
Two waiters entered obsequiously, one bearing a serving table, the other holding above his head a large tray containing covered dishes and glasses. [9]
Proclus, who neglected no opportunity of serving the nephew of the rich man whose aid he constantly required for the Queen's finances, was his guide, and described the decoration of the inner apartments of the royal residence. [10]
The great thing is the serving, that's it. [2]
P.S.--Williams is still in the State's prison, serving out a long sentence--of nine years, I think. [5]
I was there in June, and made my jokes about the tiny fields, where small trees stood, serving as props for the vines. [10]
After serving his illustrious master faithfully for half a century, and enjoying throughout his long term his high regard and confidence, it became his sorrowful duty at last to lay that beloved master to rest in his peaceful grave by the Potomac. [5]
Her conscience smote her that she should use such churls; but she gave it comfort by the thought that while serving her they could do naught worse; and her cause was good. [11]
The mystery of her six weeks' serving at our table was easily solved. [6]
He admitted that he knew no safer hiding-place than the cliff surrounded by fluttering sea-gulls, where Pyrrhus lived with his family and earned abundant support by fishing and serving as pilot. [10]
I dare say he is Archdeacon now--he was a canon then--and he was serving in the Westminster battery, if that is the proper term--I do not know, as you mix military and ecclesiastical things together so much. [5]
I think we have spent our lives in serving our country, and we never serve it to greater advantage than when we get out of it. [5]
He has just had his coffee, and the waiter is serving him with his petit verre. [6]
He was elected Governor, he became a member of Congress, serving successively in both branches. [4]
The old folks got into litters, and the serving men were lighting the way before me to mine, when my lover stayed me, saying: "It is already grey in the East. [10]
Myrtle was very glad that he had been so far successful,--she did not know that it made much difference to her, but she was obliged to him for the desire of serving her that he had expressed. [6]
By the garden gate hang three small bells, from some old mission, all cracked, but serving (each has its office) to summon the workmen or to call to prayer. [4]
But if Sir Franz knew not already that he, to whom he spoke as roughly as though he were a froward serving man, was in truth son and heir of a right noble house, he learnt it now. [10]
Shall I pay four to free thee of serving thy master the Khedive? [11]
All sorts of explanations were suggested, not one of them in the least satisfactory, but serving to keep the curiosity of inquirers active until they were superseded by a new theory. [6]
Herdegen gave him Eppelein to attend him, and to bring back to him such matters as he had need of, and so my beloved set forth for the town, the serving man riding behind him. [10]
He was simply enrolled in the great army of readers and was serving his apprenticeship. [4]
Thus the honest Chevalier kept his word, given to me when I released him from serving me on the St. Lawrence. [11]
The news that Caracalla proposed to marry Melissa had been echoed by insolent tongues, with the addition that he, Alexander, had ingratiated himself with Caesar by serving him as a spy. [10]
A serving man came to hail forth Master Ebner and Uncle Tucher, and the muttering and stir without waxed louder and louder. [10]
Yes, he must bring out seats and food for both, and in serving us present not ewer and napkin with more show of respect to the one than to the other. [5]
Old D'Aulon, wounded and a prisoner, was still with Joan and serving her, by permission of the Duke of Burgundy. [5]
The obelisks, serving also as memorial monuments on which the names and deeds of great kings were recorded, were sacred to him, and Pliny remarks of them that they represented the rays of the sun. [10]
Of course, she, a handsome young woman without any definite position, without relations or even a country, did not intend to devote her life to serving Prince Bolkonski, to reading aloud to him and being friends with Princess Mary. [2]

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