assiduities

Example Sentences

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Could it have been with the purpose of ridding herself of the assiduities of Mr. Duryea?

From Hand and Ring by Green, Anna Katharine

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)

Night and day I will watch and tend you, till the assiduities of my affection weary out the effects of your cruel disease brought on you—O God!—by your grief for me, your worthless Espras.”

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative by Wilson, John Mackay

What though his uncouth gestures provoked a smile, and his assiduities to the young lady were commented on at every hand.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 by Various

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