sarves

I have knitted a few sarves for the family this year and they've gone down well.

Yet another hat finished:) ambermoggie 2006

Having chosen a quiet street, where the appearance of mothers with blessed babbies in the windows prognosticates a plentiful descent of coppers, Jack commences by pitching his voice uncommonly strong, and tossing Poll and the Billy-ruffian from side to side, to give an idea of the way Neptune sarves the navy, -- strikes, as one may say, into deep water, by plunging into "The Bay of Biscay," in the following manner; --

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 16, 1841 Various

Best of all sarves, ladies! two dollars a box, ladies!

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various

"Jest so soon as my leg sarves me, sir, -- say a veek, -- say, two."

The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915

Fame invites a man out iv his house to be crowned f'r his gloryous deeds, an 'sarves him with a warrant f'r batin' his wife.

Mr. Dooley Says Finley Peter Dunne 1901

Uncle Wellington ignored this personality, and continued, "An 'he say de cullud folks got all de privileges er de w'ite folks, -- dat dey chillen goes ter school tergedder, dat dey sets on same seats in chu'ch, an' sarves on jury, 'n' rides on de kyars an 'steamboats wid de w'ite folks, an' eats at de fus 'table."

The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays 1895

'Give me a plate of mate, bolstered with cabbage, and what do I care for their buns and sarves, Grannie,' says he.

The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Hall Caine 1892

"Nor I, sorr," replied the first mate; "but it sarves them right, bad cess to 'em!"

The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land 1887

I've passed to leeward of a dead whale, wi 'a cloud o' gulls and what not feedin 'upon un, and the smell was different from this; just so strong, but different, and if my memory sarves me -- even wuss.

The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer Harry Collingwood 1886

"O, as for that matther," said Barny, "the same high-road sarves a coach and four and a lowback car, the thravellin 'tinker an' a lord a 'horseback."

Stories of Comedy Rossiter Johnson 1885