assiduities

Example Sentences

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No assiduities 19 can win him to take the least notice of the crew, and I soon discovered, that, when the captain and myself were below, he endured many a persecution.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker

His assiduities were like those of the dying Narcissa— And Betty, give those cheeks a little red, One wouldn't, sure, look horrid when one's dead!

From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund

The reputation of Lord Frederick's attentions gave me much more pleasure than the attentions themselves; and my companions knew how to flatter me, by reminding me of his assiduities.

From Discipline by Brunton, Mary

Oh, he was not the first man who had done it! not the first who had worn a lover's looks and used all a lover's assiduities, and then—nothing more.

From A Country Gentleman and his Family by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

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