How To Use Assiduity In A Sentence
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This he followed with patient assiduity, and a mind ever open to the lessons of piety and benevolence which such a study is so well calculated to afford.
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They had been filling the plates and glasses of these two ladies all the way from Calcutta; they had walked with them every day on deck, had fetched their chairs, picked up their handkerchiefs, and looked after their bottled beer at tiffin-time with an assiduity which is more than commendable in such warm latitudes.
The Bertrams
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Bearing in mind the company spirit " no accumulation, no success ", we work with assiduity.
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This man is a serious politician: one can deduce that from the assiduity with which he eschews politics.
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He went through his duties with untiring assiduity, and with a kind of gracefulness, which by mere description can scarcely be made intelligible to those who are unacquainted with the manners of the
Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East
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Although I know not, I dare say it is owing to some petty petulance, to some half-ungenerous advantage taken of his obligingness and assiduity.
Clarissa Harlowe
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Or maybe a nap first, since I honestly have no clue if I used "assiduity" properly above, a sure sign that I'm tired.....
How not to be a writer
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I do not think that it is fair just or reasonable that the extent of the liability of the defendants should depend on the assiduity of the surveyors instructed by the claimants.
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It depends on the zeal, the assiduity, or the nervousness of the individual.
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He is loved internationally for his academic assiduity and penchant for historical research.
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And when she portrays a horse or a tiger on the canvas, her assiduity gives it a professional touch.
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The sense of identity formed by one's assiduity as a listener or an amateur performer was by now so strong as to require some determination in order to be rejected.
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The fact that Britain at last opened her eyes to the opportunity afforded to the Allies to rally this powerful people to their side was attributable to the initiative, the assiduity and the fervour of one of the greatest Hebrews of all time: Dr. Chaim Weizmann …
Matthew Yglesias » Israel Politics Circa 1947
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A response to this position, of course, would be that the assiduity with which Carroll cultivated friendships with small girls seems out of proportion to such a purpose.
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It is true that I was aware of the lack of oral instruction, but I tried to replace this by even more assiduity.
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Silently and invisibly, yet with unslumbering assiduity, Odd-Fellowship watches over him, and by its wise counsels, its tender sympathies and rational restraints, saves him from the ways of vice.
The Jericho Road
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He went through his duties with untiring assiduity, and with a kind of gracefulness, which by mere description can scarcely be made intelligible to those who are unacquainted with the manners of the Asiatics.
Eothen
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A myth of Merrie Africa was fostered with assiduity, an ideal of timeless village community as appealing to radicals and socialists as to conservatives.
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When he arrives home with his newspaper he dons his spectacles and, ignoring the front and back pages, proceeds to peruse the death notices with the utmost assiduity.
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He cultivated his role as a celebrity with all the assiduity common to our media stars today.
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Initially, the office was often sold to the highest bidder, who would recoup his losses by assiduity in collecting.
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I admire his bee - like assiduity in his work.
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This valuable volume confirms the dedicated assiduity with which Crawford Seeger channelled her ‘modernist’ instincts into the most refined kind of folk-song transcription she could manage.
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The officers however, pursued their investigation with the utmost assiduity and with not a little skill.
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The young secretary's assiduity rapidly won him esteem, and some dislike.
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As an evidence of the assiduity with which he botanized, it may be mentioned that he had seen the _Geranium
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859
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Baker has footnoted the Archer book with prolific assiduity (over 140 notes in each of two chapters).
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Their battalions practised skirmishing on the glacis with that routine assiduity which is the secret of the German military success.
Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
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In some of their letters, therefore, which he received soon after, they expressed their surprise at his not having been more urgent in his application, and again recommended the blushless assiduity of successful merit.
The Man of Feeling
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In the 1960s, a Beijing toilet cleaner surnamed Chen made a name for himself by carrying out his job with great assiduity.
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But in reality he seems to have had a fairly shrewd sense of the potential scale and scope of this enterprise and to have laid the foundations of widespread recruitment with some assiduity.
'The Crusades'
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I shall from this day take the firm resolution to study with renewed assiduity, to keep my attention always well fixed on whatever I am about, and to strive to become every day less trifling and more fit for what, if Heaven wills it, I'm some day to be.
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Despite the assiduity and rigor of the performers, modern dance was generally promoted and received as a pastime for females.
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The motive of this assiduity was at length revealed to me, by a violent and fervent declaration of love, which astonished and perplexed me.
Memoirs of Mary Robinson
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I beg leave to express my thankfulness to the good tutoresses for their assiduity and care in forwarding our dear pupils in this useful branch of education.
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Yet the young mother also hoped the girl could develop the characteristics of persistence, independence and assiduity.
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In all respects unlike himself, she suffered intensely; and, though hoary with sixty winters, hovered about him, with that busy assiduity which is one of the simplest forms in which anxiety and grief are apt to show themselves.
Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.
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Henry VII's councillors were all selected for their ability, assiduity, shrewdness, and loyalty.
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In his famous biography The Life of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell acknowledges the hallmark of his book: his assiduity "to preserve his [Johnson's] conversation in an authentick [sic] and lively manner," and his scrupulosity "by which so many conversations were recorded.
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