assiduities

Example Sentences

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"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

The tender assiduities of birds in their attachments is no less remarkable than their courage in defence of their mates and young ones.

From The Emigrant's Lost Son or, Life Alone in the Forest by Anonymous

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

The more they showed themselves inexorable, the more Mademoiselle redoubled her assiduities.

From Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 by Barine, Arvede

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