assiduities

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No doubt as soon as he discovers that it is honest labour and not play that is expected of him he will trouble her with no more of his assiduities.

From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda

"Gentlemen of the Clergy in New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia,— "Your most zealous exertions, your unremitting assiduities, are pathetically invoked.

From White Slavery in the Barbary States by Sumner, Charles

Do you not feel within your own breast a repugnance to the assiduities he at all times takes pains to shew you?

From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Cavendish, Georgiana

Aside from the constant and kind assiduities of Dr. Crary, the ship's physician, the patience and watchfulness with which the sick were nursed and tended, their wants sought out, their wishes anticipated, were remarkable.

From Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. by Greeley, Horace

She at once warmly and fervently attached herself to Mildred, and won her way into our lady's esteem by the most amiable assiduities.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton