How To Use Industrious In A Sentence
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Carolina in 1760, wrote in his _History of North Carolina_ that the women were the more industrious sex in this section, and made a great deal of cloth of their own cotton, wool, and flax.
Woman's Life in Colonial Days
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Speaking of pal Dorian, he's mentioned to me a couple times at work that somewhere on the John Byrne Forum, some industrious individual "rewrote" events in Identity Crisis so that You-Know-Who wasn't sexually assaulted and killed.
Archive 2004-07-18
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It shows that young people are industrious and inspired.
Times, Sunday Times
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Therefore is it that Pallas, the goddess of wisdom, tutoress and guardianess of such as are diligently studious and painfully industrious, is, and hath been still accounted a virgin.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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It shows that young people are industrious and inspired.
Times, Sunday Times
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The usually industrious midfielder was virtually anonymous throughout.
The Sun
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It is not enough to be industrious, the ants are very industrious. You are what?
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Yet he exhorted the true “naturalist” not to “let the search or knowledge of final causes make him neglect the industrious indagation [i.e., investigation] of effi - cients,” and he implied that the naturalist's principal aim was the discovery of efficient causes.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Rose was industriously weeding among the ranunculi.
In the Presence of the Enemy
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The road is strait and spacious and kept in excellent repair by the industrious inhabitants, and is generally bordered by tall and spreading trees as the magnolia, liquid amber, liriodendron, catalpa and live oak, and on the verges of the canals where the road was causewayed, stood the cyprus, lacianthus and magnolia, all planted by nature and left standing by the virtuous inhabitants, to shade the road and perfume the sultry air.
Agricultural Resources of Georgia. Address Before the Cotton Planters Convention of Georgia at Macon, December 13, 1860
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She's extremely competent and industrious.
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From the endless rows of hand tools to the overalls and safety goggles, the atmosphere is industrious to say the least.
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Mountains of northern Spain leave their poor country for a time for the richer provinces of Portugal and Spain, where they become porters, water-carriers and scavengers, and are known as boorish, but industrious and honest.
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
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Later, an industrious blousard of my acquaintance was arrested at his work, and sent to prison for the same offence: he was a carriage-maker.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
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It is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. What are you industrious for?
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No cricket writer or radio commentator was more industrious and conscientious.
Times, Sunday Times
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Apart from his intelligence, he was tirelessly industrious.
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He isn't particularly clever but industrious.
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Scotland will need industrious and intelligent defensive work to hold out against these giants.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even if tea were indeed the virtuous drink of an industrious sobriety, something other than rational health benefits must have been the spur, otherwise tobacco and opiates would have fallen into desuetude.
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The example of harmonious and industrious living set by the missionaries was continually undermined by the licentious behaviour of visiting European traders.
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It is not enough to be industrious, the ants are very industrious. You are what?
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If the tiller is industrious, the farmland is productive.
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We need to see that we are capable, industrious people reflected in the things we own.
Times, Sunday Times
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His most industrious display for a long time.
The Sun
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Instead, they will be populated by industrious persons traveling to these beneficent climates in search of the prosperity that has eluded them in their own country.
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As only eight fellows could be given places on the regular crew in the shell, and Buck's five cronies were all eager to be ranked as members, they electioneered for him most industriously.
Fred Fenton on the Crew or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School
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Anyway, he is very industrious and energetic in his sweeping.
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That year, a letter to the Newport Mercury, authored by “Frugality,” continued the redefinition of American freedom as self-denial: “We may talk and boast of liberty; but after all, the industrious and frugal only will be free.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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Up front, Duffield and McNiven, in particular, were industrious, offering the long sought after stickability for City's too often overworked midfield and defence.
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The ravine grew more and more beautiful, and an ascent through a dark wood of arrowy cryptomeria brought us to this village exquisitely situated, where a number of miniature ravines, industriously terraced for rice, come down upon the great chasm of the Kinugawa.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
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Showed he deserved recall with industrious display.
The Sun
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Out of the Blue's "Dead Gnome" line features garden gnomes with pistols in their mouths, or holding up the dripping heads of decapitated brethren, industriously sawing their own hands off, hanging from a gibbet, grinning glassily at the arrow that's pierced their heads, and so on.
Boing Boing
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At her direction, two of the larger menservants each seized an end of the blanket under Jamie and transferred it smoothly, contents and all, to the camp bed, now set up before the fire, where another servant was industriously poking the night-banked coals and feeding the growing blaze.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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The usually industrious midfielder was virtually anonymous throughout.
The Sun
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They greatly impress me with their intellectual and behavior-analytic skills and their consistent industriousness.
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A good head and an industrious hand are worth gold in any land.
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I brought back from Vermont a pound each of chocolate and penuche fudge for office sharing and have been industriously monitoring which is going faster.
Archive 2007-10-01
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A large part of his limited production is a celebration, in her many guises, of the industrious bourgeois mother: as mentor, minister, governess, purveyor, nurse, needlewoman and handmaid to her children.
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He's quite industrious and rapidly turns out large quantities of burritos, flautas or fajitas.
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A very hard working and industrious farmer, he was an excellent family man and a member of an old and respected family.
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Maggie paints industriously all through the summer.
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Now that our technologies so adeptly bridge the old divide between industriousness and relaxation, work and play, either through oscillation or else a kind of merging, everything being merely digits put to different uses, we ought to ask if we aren't selling off the site of our greatest possible happiness.
Notable & Quotable
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Vast spirt, active though and industrious heart make a genius.
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She keeps house industriously and frugally and niggles over every detail of each bill.
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If your grandfather, or great-grandfather, had been what is termed a thrifty and industrious man, working hard, living poor, working his wife and little ones in one long grind, all in order to save money to invest in business, you might now be a rich man; that is, supposing you were heir to their possessions.
The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg
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Jazz bands without drums or bass oblige the remaining participants to be extremely industrious.
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they hoed up weeds industriously all morning
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Here, we are surrounded by sober, often industrious people who are poor.
Christianity Today
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With it comes an economy that mainly stands on consumption rather than on the industrious craft of production.
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He is a good man, intelligent and industrious.
Times, Sunday Times
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What a relief to discover that my industrious good friend David Brown is hot on the trail of the schnooks who made a pile trading Cinram stock off the inside poop.
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Such crimes would have deserved the animadversion of the magistrate; but in this promiscuous outrage, the innocent were confounded with the guilty, and Alexandria was impoverished by the loss of a wealthy and industrious colony.
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And if he should get to be master of a Virginia ship which will be very difficult to do a planter that has three or four hundred acres of land and three or four slaves, if he be industrious, may live more comfortably, and leave his family in better Bread, than such a master of a ship can . . .. beforehand, let him begin to chinch, that is buy goods for tobacco and sell. . .
Washington
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No special point this evening, other than I'm thinking that the way to creative industriousness in my leisure hours may well be through being leisurely more generally.
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From inside the bedroom there came the sounds of industrious clearing up and the sound of water sluicing into a large tub filled the antechamber.
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She was an industrious and willing worker.
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A very hard working and industrious man, he was held in very high esteem.
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Hence the excellence of the sense of touch in [cont. below] p. Secured from frost the Bee industrious dwells,
Canto III
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As a professor, it would be the height of churlishness to complain about such industrious habits.
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Kids will love to watch the industrious honeybees at work in a display hive while you shop for raspberry honey butter and beeswax candles.
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Long was again rewarded for the most industrious of displays in the 66th minute.
Times, Sunday Times
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The results of this study as well as prior studies suggest that narcissists do care more about being perceived as superior on agentic traits (e.g., industriousness, assertiveness, dominance) compared to communal traits (e.g., agreeableness and honesty).
Do Narcissists Know They Are Narcissists?
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Here, we are surrounded by sober, often industrious people who are poor.
Christianity Today
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And others of them have said that he was an industrious plodder rather than an original thinker.
Chapter 37
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Then they work industriously at plucking the grapes from the vines that are climbing over shrubs adjacent to the pear tree.
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The industrious application of the smallest copper coin procurable, the humble farthing or the halfpenny, speedily converted the most insignificant abrasion of the skin into a festering sore.
The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
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Industrious Buddhist monks laid out gardens everywhere full of abstract patterns that preceded Picasso by centuries.
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But when that we speak of suffering, we do not speak of a dull and neglected suffering, but of a wise and industrious suffering, which draweth and contriveth use and advantage out of that which seemeth adverse and contrary; which is that properly which we call accommodating or applying.
The Advancement of Learning
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He struck me as being particularly hardworking, energetic and industrious.
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The Chinese are an industrious nation.
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His industriousness, you suspect, is in part a lacquering against his own legend.
Times, Sunday Times
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Well, the people that are walking across the desert are the kind of industrious and courageous people that we want, if you think about it.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ant is the most industrious animal; however, it is the most taciturn one.
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Hale, merry fellows they were -- a little more red of face and loud of talk than was quite seemly in a stranger's eyes, but industrious and "forehanded," and kind of heart to parents, wives and babies.
The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)
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Most of these early drillers and operators were local folk, or members of an industrious and close-knit fraternity who had grown up in and around the salt well or oil-skimming business.
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The South East in particular would grind to a halt without industrious foreign workers.
The Sun
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They were exemplars of the same industrious values as their subjects.
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Two ex-Union officers who owned a plantation in Alabama exclaimed that they had “never employed so docile, industrious, and good humored a set of people in all our experience.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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A good head and an industrious hand are worth gold in any land.
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Industrious Buddhist monks laid out gardens everywhere full of abstract patterns that preceded Picasso by centuries.
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Showed he deserved recall with industrious display.
The Sun
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With all its merits, there are those who have thought that there was one thing in the declaration to be regretted; and that is, the asperity and anger with which it speaks of the person of the king; the industrious ability with which it accumulates and charges upon him all the injuries which the colonies had suffered from the mother country.
Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch
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I was much more an industrious midfield player.
The Sun
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The South East in particular would grind to a halt without industrious foreign workers.
The Sun
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This image of industriousness - echoed in various forms on walls throughout the village - also underscores indigenous agency.
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The writer's past eighty but she's still writing industriously.
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It is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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We need to see that we are capable, industrious people reflected in the things we own.
Times, Sunday Times
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She saw and inwardly rejoiced at the humility of his looks; but, far from rewarding it with one approving glance, she industriously avoided this ocular intercourse, and rather coquetted with a young gentleman that ogled her from the opposite box.
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
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Asian Indians are sometimes stereotyped in American society as industrious, prosperous, and professionally and educationally advanced.
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Apart from his intelligence, he was tirelessly industrious.
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A member of a respected family she was a hard working industrious lady.
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Yes, beavers are industrious rodents whose dams help our river systems.
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After months of silence, the streets of the town will once again be filled with the sound of proclamation following a decision by certain industrious members of the community.
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The women's critique broke down views of virtue and vice that associated smoke with virtuous masculine industriousness and clean air with vicious feminized luxury.
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Despite his languid manner, he is actually incredibly industrious.
Times, Sunday Times
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His layered photographs condense the evidence of man and its industrious production.
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It is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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Whatever consideration, at any time or season, may seem to have had an efficacy upon the minds and wills of men under the like sacrament and designment to the service of truth with yourselves, to incite and provoke them to a singularly industrious and faithful discharge of their duty, is eminently pressing upon you also; and you are made a spectacle to men and angels as to the acquitment of yourselves.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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Winning the future," as President Obama puts it, requires both industriousness within America and acknowledgment that success elsewhere brings its own opportunities.
Let a Thousand Talents Bloom
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She was an industrious and willing worker.
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The best bed-chamber, with its hangings of crimson moreen, was opened and aired -- a performance which always caused my eight little brothers and sisters to place themselves in convenient positions for being stumbled over, to the great annoyance of industrious damsels, who, armed with broom and duster, endeavored to render their reign as arbitrary as it was short.
A Grandmother's Recollections
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It is wise, too, in relation to the civilized world around us, to avoid giving occasion to the odium which is so industriously excited against ourselves and our institutions.
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
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What was needed was the creation of the “sober, industrious, and thrifty” worker who rejected “riotous living,” “the display of enervating luxury,” and “the insane attempt to keep up appearances which are not legitimate.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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While most thieves have simply broken into sheds or storehouses, one industrious thief actually harvested someone else's rice himself during the night, reducing a lush golden field to a small rectangular patch.
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The results of this study as well as prior studies suggest that narcissists do care more about being perceived as superior on agentic traits (e.g., industriousness, assertiveness, dominance) compared to communal traits (e.g., agreeableness and honesty).
Do Narcissists Know They Are Narcissists?
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The late Matt was a diligent and industrious farmer and is the last of his family.
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(49 percent), "high professionalism, competence" (45 percent), "industriousness" (40 percent), as well as "initiative, integrity, and culture" (by 21 to 26 percent).
RIA Novosti
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From my window I could descry, at no great distance, a very ordinary mortal of a man, working industriously among his cabbages.
The Dignity of Dollars
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He is a most industrious small chopper, and the other day gnawed down, or as the children call it, "beavered" down, a misshapen tulip tree, which was about fifty feet high.
Youthful Bible Commentators
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eident" and so industrious, her heart warmed to the mason's apprentice, and she sent for him to her house.
The Life of Thomas Telford
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Professor Smith works industriously at ninety - two natural elements in his laboratory every day.
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Morton told him, and the old man ruminated a while, as he industriously cleaned, primed, and loaded his gun, while Morton waited, watching a long, plume-like line of smoke along the distant horizon, which he knew was from a Portland steamer.
Sara, a Princess
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While gazing at the industrious insects, novelty-toy entrepreneur Milton Levine was transported back to childhood and his uncle's farm, where he collected ants in jars and watched them "cavort," Mr. Levine told the Los Angeles Times in 2002.
The Seattle Times
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I have been industrious to get the Mills in good repair and have succeeded well, but have rcd. very little benefit from them yet owing intirely to the general failure of a Crop.
The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783
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The industrious bee always has no horary woe.
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The industrious midfielder is a real attacking threat for the Sky Blues.
The Sun
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They are industrious people who believe in strong families, self-discipline and orderly lifestyles.
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A good head and an industrious hand are worth gold in any land.
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It is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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Likewise, Maurice-Quentin de la Tour's monumental pastel portrait of the magistrate Gabriel Bernard de Rieux, who looks up from reading in a book-strewn study as a clock keeps time behind him, is the essence of the erudite professional whose industriousness has merited him his elite stature and surroundings.
With All the Time in the World
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Liberality in princes is regarded as a mark of beneficence, but when it occurs, that the homely bread of the honest and industrious is often thereby converted into delicious cates for the idle and the prodigal, we soon retract our heedless praises.
An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals
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The Chinese are an industrious nation.
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What farther he might have had in his thoughts to do is known to Him whom he served so industriously and so faithfully in his spirit in the gospel while he was here on earth, and with whom he now enjoys the reward of all his labours and all his sufferings; for certain it is concerning Dr Owen, that as God gave him very transcendent abilities, so he did therewithal give him a boundless enlargedness of heart, and unsatiable desire to do service to
Pneumatologia
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He again underlined what a player he could be with another industrious performance on the right hand side of midfield.
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A good head and an industrious hand are worth gold in any land.
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Yes, beavers are industrious rodents whose dams help our river systems.
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They have built ‘a delightful, heartening oasis for average to bright children hindered by dyslexia or dyspraxia, who require an intimate, industrious and caring environment.’
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A very active and industrious lady, she owned the flower gardens at Ballybrophy until she retired.
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It was no less than the 19-year-old deserved for an industrious first-half display.
Times, Sunday Times
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But when we speak of suffering, we do not speak of a _dull neglected suffering_, but of _a wise and industrious suffering_, which draweth and contriveth _use and advantage out of that which seemeth adverse and contrary_, which is that properly which we call _accommodating_ or _applying_.
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
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A good head and an industrious hand are worth gold in any land.
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The industrious midfielder is a real attacking threat for the Sky Blues.
The Sun
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We always found that the deeper the sets were placed in the ground the sounder were the roots: We tried every experiment with them; and as our gardener was both skilful and industrious, we were usually much more fortunate with our produce than our neighbors.
Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money we Made by it
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I've attached a picture that one of our industrious computer experts put together.
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The ant is the most industrious animal; however, it is the most taciturn one.
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Yet, as Smiles observed, ‘No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.’
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It was about this time that Ecgfrid [246] gave Benedict a portion of land on the other side of the river Wire, at a place called Jarrow; and that enterprising and industrious abbot, in the year 684, built a monastery thereon.
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
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The power of her characteristics helps her friends become optimistic and industrious like her, makes her enemy scary and awe-struck to her, and also benefits her readers.
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It was a matter of wonder what this industrious creature might be doing in flowerless Soss.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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During the years of the gold rush in Australia the Chinese were well known for industriously working their way through the mullock heaps (the heaps where the other miners discarded the material they had scoured for gold).
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Scotland will need industrious and intelligent defensive work to hold out against these giants.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Thais are the happiest and most industrious group I have observed in the Asian area and progress was rapid.
Thud Ridge
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As for decor, imagine an industrious hipster transforming his studio apartment into a tavern.
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The ant is the most industrious animal; however, it is the most taciturn one.
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Thomas was ‘an industrious labourer’ and of ‘good character’, and worked in the employ of the local landowner.
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I've got good workin 'boys and right industrious darkeys, but it takes a man with a head on and his eyes well open to keep up with 'em and watch out for little things -- little damages that aggravate a man and keep him in a fret, that is if he is but human and can't help fretting when things go wrong.
Bill Arp from the uncivil war to date, 1861-1903,
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Although the beaver's industrious habits, wholesome diet, and generally meritorious lifestyle have endeared it to many human beings, the fact remains that beavers are also prized for their flesh, and are eaten.
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For Germany in particular, the fear is that a shared fisc will amount to industrious countries subsidizing spendthrift ones.
Brussels Brainstorms . . .
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Straight his own month grew wider as hi And now himself he views with like snrpi Still at bis oar the 'industrious Libya plie But as he plie*, each busy arm shrinks in And by degrees is fashion'd to a fin:
Ovid's Metamorphoses, tr. by dr. Garth, and others
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_motif_ of his works; nay, finally, it finds these more interesting than the works themselves; it reads more about Goethe than what has been written by Goethe, and industriously studies the legend of Faust in preference to Goethe's _Faust_ itself.
Essays of Schopenhauer
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Your industrious and methodical nature will gain you respect in the workplace.
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However, there was to be no blaze of glory and rather than producing a high-octane performance, Sligo stuttered to a halt when succumbing to a more mobile and industrious Donegal team.
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Rains, thunder, roaring rivers, sky-scraping hills, industrious people, charming smiling girls, Buddhist flavor, sensational jungles, and varied wildlife are the quintessence of the life of Darjeeling.
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Apart from his intelligence, he was tirelessly industrious.
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A submissive orchestra dictated to by a spectacled man with frowsy hair and a dress suit, industriously followed the bobs of his head and the waves of his baton.
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We Chinese people are brave and industrious.
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Hot samshoo is first poured down his throat and rubbed on his joints, then he is rolled over on his stomach; Yung Po then industriously flagellates him in the bend of the knees with a flat bamboo, and his wife scrapes him vigorously down the spine with the sharp edge of a porcelain bowl.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
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I profess, without flouting or flattering, I have much admired with what facility and fluentness, how pertinently and properly, they have expressed themselves, in language which they were never born nor bred to, but have industriously acquired by conversing with their betters.
Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers.
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What makes my error even more comical is that I innocently inferred that the industrious and opportunistic (in a positive sense) Europeans who became refugees to France during the turmoil of the Algerian independence movement had somehow contributed to the urban squalor I observed in La Rose which was about as far from the truth as one could venture.
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Pete Wilson successfully transformed the image of the industrious immigrant into a military threat.
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Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.
Broke
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She was always hardworking and industrious and ever ready with a helping hand.
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We make the busy bee look like a lazy creature, and the industrious ant, a sluggard.
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So long as they were in favour, they were free to feather their nests, which Andrei did as industriously as anyone else.
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Extreamly Industrious, that so there might be less Occasion to carbonade him for the good of his Fellow-Travellers.
Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader
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No cricket writer or radio commentator was more industrious and conscientious.
Times, Sunday Times
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The plantation was a considerable success, the settlers proving industrious and determined.
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Bob knew from his research that the beehive was a key Masonic symbol for industriousness.8 He surmised that the Florence coke ovens were KGC-Masonic in origin.
Shadow of the Sentinel
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It was no less than the 19-year-old deserved for an industrious first-half display.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am well aware that there is a Sicilian _in fabula_ who is not "mafioso"; that the crude banditism which sits in every Corsican's bones has raised him to the elysium of martyrs and heroes and not, where he ought to have gone, to the gallows; that the Maltese are not merely cantankerous and bigoted (Catholic) Arabs, but also sober, industrious, and economical.
Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
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Ian looked consideringly at his own offspring, industriously engaged in piling wooden blocks on top of each other by the hearth.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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Strongbow's uncle, Herve, was endowed with two other cantreds, to the south of the town, now known as the baronies of Forth and Bargey, where the descendants of the Welsh and Flemish settlers then planted are still to be found in the industrious and sturdy population, known as Flemings, Furlongs,
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1
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The rich merchant, though with his capital he maintains industrious people only, yet by his expence, that is, by the employment of his revenue, he feeds commonly the very same sort as the great lord.
III. Book II. Of the Accumulation of Capital, or of Productive and Unproductive Labour
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To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.
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A very highly respected member of the community, a hardworking, industrious farmer, he was also a ganger with Mayo County Council for many years until his retirement and was very popular with his superiors and workers.
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Arachne, a most industrious needleworker, had the audacity to contest against Pallas, the goddess of the art of weaving.
Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them
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To adopt wise King Solomon's words about industry (the concrete form of the more abstract word 'industriousness'):
CounterPunch
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It is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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He inherited a great love of the land and livestock and was a most industrious and hard-working gentleman.
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The Victorian age was supposed to have been temperate, prudish, serious and industrious, rather like the good Queen herself.
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Japan had an industrious and well-organised people to further economic progress.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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They Open Up waste-land, till the fields, grow vegetables and raise pigs to lighten the people of their burden and to develop industriousness, which is the true mark of the labouring people.
Achievements of Mao Tse Tung
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They were industrious by nature with a strong work ethic and a firm belief in self-sufficiency.
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It moves pity more than mirth, to see a man, whom Nature has made no fool, so very industrious to appear like an ass.
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Whatever consideration, at any time or season, may seem to have had an efficacy upon the minds and wills of men under the like sacrament and designment to the service of truth with yourselves, to incite and provoke them to a singularly industrious and faithful discharge of their duty, is eminently pressing upon you also; and you are made a spectacle to men and angels as to the acquitment of yourselves.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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He's quite industrious and rapidly turns out large quantities of burritos, flautas or fajitas.
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Observing the industrious lads is a 50-ish man in a sober wool suit.
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They are very industrious however at their Prayrs and devotions that is to say in repeating their Pater Nosters, in counting their Beads, in kissing their Crucifixes, and taking off their hair Shifts to whip and lacerate themselves every day for their Sins, to discipline themselves to greater Spirituality in the Christian Life.
John Adams autobiography, part 3, "Peace," 1779-1780
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I was much more an industrious midfield player.
The Sun
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Long was again rewarded for the most industrious of displays in the 66th minute.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is a good man, intelligent and industrious.
Times, Sunday Times
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Helene employed household help, but Cullman's German housewives prided themselves on their industriousness and housekeeping without servants.
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The Susus are an industrious tribe, and they trade with our colony in gum, ground-nuts, and _benni_, or sesamum-seed.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
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No wonder this most industrious Player of the Year smiled a lot!
ITF World of Tennis
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It is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. What are you industrious for?
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His most industrious display for a long time.
The Sun
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Such things as could be said for him were said, — how he had taken to industrious habits, and had thriven lawfully and reputably.
Great Expectations
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But, after all, this humorous saying had one very good effect, for that younker, who before was a little inclined by his constitution to be lazy, grew on a sudden extremely industrious, that so there might be less occasion to carbonade him for the good of his fellow travellers.
The Westover Manuscripts: Containing the History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina; A Journey to the Land of Eden, A. D. 1733; and A Progress to the Mines. Written from 1728 to 1736, and Now First Published
