assiduities

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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

I left no stone unturned to be of service to them, without being taken in by their interested assiduities.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Lodge, Henry Cabot

Mr. Larkin's assiduities and flatteries were, in truth, telling upon Lord Verney, with whom he was stealing into a general confidence which alarmed many people, and which Cleve Verney hated more than ever.

From The Tenants of Malory Volume 3 of 3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

It is little attentions and assiduities that sweeten the bitter draught and smooth the rugged road.

From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Adams, Abigail

Yet, that she might not weary and utterly repulse the notary's passion, the creole seemed sometimes touched by his assiduities, and flattered by the control which she exercised over him.

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 5 of 6 by Sue, Eugène