assiduities

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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

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

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

As if my good genius warned me of my fate, I disliked him so much at first, that I felt unhappy in his presence; but his assiduities gradually won upon me.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI by Leighton, Alexander