assiduities

Example Sentences

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William, by a hundred assiduities, endeavoured to recover Amelia's cheerfulness, again to spread a smile on her clouded countenance, and make her renew her usual pleasing prattle.

From The Looking-Glass for the Mind or Intellectual Mirror by Bewick, John

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

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

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

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