serviceable

Upon arriving at home they prepared to kill the Cock, who thus pleaded for his life: “Pray spare me; I am very serviceable to men.

I made her three good, warm, serviceable ones this fall, and anything more is sheer extravagance.

Now, to apply it in your case,—to whom could your disappearance have been serviceable?”

But he had reckoned too much upon his strength, and then he realized how serviceable the timber had been to him.