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Definition of Serve well
1. Verb. Promote, benefit, or be useful or beneficial to. "The President's wisdom has served the country well"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Serve Well
Literary usage of Serve well
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters of Thomas Carlyle, 1826-1836 by Thomas Carlyle (1888)
"think with you and have always thought, can hardly be permanently comfortable
for our Mother; if it serve well for one year, that is all I hope of it: then ..."
2. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"At higher hydraulic head the this simple design serve well up to very much larger
capacities. In case the necessary width becomes too great to be ..."
3. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association, Richard Rogers Bowker, Charles Ammi Cutter (1908)
"Much the same system as must be used in libraries where seminaries and stacks
are not inseparably connected, may serve well in this laboratory extension use ..."
4. The Life and Letters of Sir George Savile, Bart., First Marquis of Halifax &c by Helen Charlotte Foxcroft, George Savile Halifax (1898)
"Resolving to serve well, and at the same time resolving to please, is generally
resolving to do what is not to be done, A man that will serve well ..."
5. The Life and Letters of Sir George Savile, Bart., First Marquis of Halifax &c by Helen Charlotte Foxcroft, George Savile Halifax (1898)
"Resolving to serve well, and at the same time resolving to please, ... A man that
will serve well must often rule the master so hard that it will hurt him. ..."
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