1 Had a cabbage chanced to be so encountered, she had pressed it also into the service.
2 With some of them, however, Chichikov was altogether unacquainted, since certain substitutes and supernumeraries had to be pressed into the service from among the ranks of the subordinate staff.
3 Nor was he wrong in his calculations, for, within the space of a year, he had acquired what he could not have made during twenty years of non-fraudulent service.
4 To my charge there has been committed the performance of another kind of service.
5 Also, there came to hand information with regard both to Chichikov's purchase of dead souls and to his conniving at contraband goods during his service in the Customs Department.
6 His father gave him up as a bad job, and let him go into the civil service.
7 I am at your service, Anna Sergyevna.
8 Bazarov walked as far as the copse, sat down in the shade at its edge, and only then disclosed to Piotr the nature of the service he expected of him.
9 I used to be in the government service, but am no longer.
10 Innumerable "romantics" attain later in life to considerable rank in the service.
11 He never lent money to anyone, but I had, on entering the service, been specially recommended to him by an important personage who had got me my berth.
12 Then there came other rumours--of his successes in the service.
13 I shall be arrested, I shall be tried, I shall be dismissed from the service, thrown in prison, sent to Siberia.
14 He's angry because so far I haven't made headway in the St. Petersburg service.
15 Next year I am going to take my son to the capital to put him in government service.