assiduities

Example Sentences

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Their women did not marry until after they had arrived at the age of maturity, and had become sensible to the assiduities of courtship. 

From An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha by Hamilton, Francis

What business has he, who can never claim any rights over her, to expose her, by his assiduities, to the coarse gossip of a gaping village?

From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda

For this reason I became the object of his friendly assiduities.

From The Scalp Hunters by Stewart, F.A.

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

If father and mother possess æsthetic sensibilities, these are offended probably by the plainness and the lack of graces in their offspring—bye-products merely of their economic assiduities.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella