sedulity
Example Sentences
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Mr. Murray and Mr. Vandenhoff, with great good taste, attended on Sir Walter Scott's right and left, and we know that he has expressed himself much gratified by their anxious politeness and sedulity.
From Chronicles of the Canongate by Sir Walter Scott
He did not write very rapidly; and he corrected, both in MS. and in proof, with the utmost sedulity.
From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury
To the best of their ability the four strove to shield her without her being able to perceive their sedulity.
From The Unwilling Vestal by Edward Lucas White
Upton conjectures that Leicester's displeasure was incurred for "some kind of officious sedulity in Spenser, who much desired to see his patron married to the Queen."
From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Edmund Spenser
He worked with exhausting sedulity and expended upon it all the gifts in his power, with the result that his work has taken its places as a classic.
From The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Thomas Wright
