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Suit and service

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(Feudal Law) the duty of feudatories to attend the courts of their lords or superiors in time of peace, and in war to follow them and do military service; - called also suit service.
- Shak.

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At last, it began to get about, among such as were interested in the matter, that although Sydney Carton would never be a lion, he was an amazingly good jackal, and that he rendered suit and service to Stryver in that humble capacity.
A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles View in context
And so at home he had established himself in business, and had invented and executed, and worked his way on, until, after a dozen years of constant suit and service, he had been enrolled in the Great British Legion of Honour, the Legion of the Rebuffed of the Circumlocution Office, and had been decorated with the Great British Order of Merit, the Order of the Disorder of the Barnacles and Stiltstalkings.
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