How To Use Solicitous In A Sentence
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If we enter the nearest institution of Charity Sisters, Sisters of Mercy, or of the Poor, we cannot fail to remark the contrast between the healthful, cheery, unsolicitous countenances of the inmates, and the nervous, suffering, careworn faces of the wives and mothers in our midst.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864
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A glance at any probate casebook will demonstrate how often solicitous distant relatives, keen to do fetching and carrying as well as to sort out troublesome financial affairs, show up in the declining years of lonely old people.
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He'd come uninvited, but not unexpected; if it was rude of us to be such unsolicitous hosts, I told myself, it was only rudeness paid in kind, so we tried to forgive one another, Willie and I, for our eager, curious hunger grown insatiable.
Heron Lake
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And, if they don't like it, people are likely to be far less irritated and unsolicitous having shelled out only $2 than being out $8 and have five beers they don't like.
Archive 2007-09-01
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Should a professor choose to reject the study or insist on changes not agreeable to the sponsor, another university scientist will very likely be more solicitous.
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I follow and offer refreshment, which is once more declined, though this time the Italian's manner is not offhand, but solicitous and somewhat grave.
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I follow and offer refreshment, which is once more declined, though this time the Italian's manner is not offhand, but solicitous and somewhat grave.
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Walter listened disbelievingly as O, affecting his familiar attitude of solicitous older brother, encouraged him to see the bright side in the bewildering estrangement proposed.
O: A Presidential Novel
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I've never known you t 'be so solicitous o' my 'ealth or anyone else's exceptin' your precious own.
A Corridor in the Asylum
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Even when he's finally settled - on his workstation swivel chair - he seems slightly remote, though he is charming and solicitous.
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Indeed, it often appears to the Asians that the US and Europe are generally only solicitous of their views and insights, when it's time to cough up more money for another misconceived bailout.
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We've seen him being doorstepped in his baseball cap, taking his constitutional in Hyde Park, accompanied by his solicitous trainer, pursued by a brute from the Mirror.
Hugh Muir's diary
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Daisy, the unloved eight-year-old in a large family, becomes the willing acolyte to the tender and solicitous Theresa.
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Meshach kept him respectably dressed, but paid him no wages; the negro had what he wanted, but wanted little; on more than one occasion the court had imposed penalties on Samson's breaches of the peace, and he lay in jail, unsolicitous and proud, until Meshach Milburn paid the fine, which he did grudgingly; for money was Meshach's sole pursuit, and he spent nothing upon himself.
The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times
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Lest you picture me cowering in this cupboard to escape some hulking brute of a husband, let me assure you that the marquess has been the very model of solicitousness.
One Night Of Scandal
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A visitor from California is Diana's brother, Adam, who is running for Congress, accompanied by his young, smarmily solicitous secretary, Jamie.
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Anna realizes that Trevor is unlikely to be so solicitous when it is Anna who requires his attention.
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Bagado spoke to him in Yoruba, sounding solicitous, respecting his elders, and made notes in his little book.
BLOOD IS DIRT
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Since he had a project of his own, he was only too glad to see the last of his oversolicitous family for awhile.
Ralestone Luck
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Vasanti also had some good luck: she had no abusive in-laws to put up with, and she had brothers who were more than usually solicitous of her well-being.
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Was it his imagination, or was Kaelor a bit overalert, oversolicitous?
Roger MacBride
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This was Paula’s maid, Oh Dear, so named by Dick, many years before, because of a certain solicitous contraction of her delicate brows that made her appear as if ever on the verge of saying, “Oh dear!”
The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London
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Not that he is entirely unsolicitous.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first meaning of the word jealous is "watchful or solicitous.
Lorna Bright: The Real Religious Challenge of the Second Commandment
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She was very solicitous for our welfare.
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Nor have I been solicitous to animadvert, as thou wentest along, upon thy inventions, and their tendency.
Clarissa Harlowe
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He was so solicitous of his guests.
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Indeed, the last thing they want to insinuate is that the Democrats are altogether too solicitous of the interests of Latinos, because Republicans want to claim that they are the ones who really care about the things that Latinos care about.
Balkinization
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I am very solicitous, both by study and argument, to enlarge this privilege of insensibility, which is in me naturally raised to a pretty degree, so that consequently I espouse and am very much moved with very few things.
The Essays of Montaigne — Complete
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The mother, never idle, lays her workbox aside and throws her sewing work over the arm of her chair to listen solicitously as her daughter recites a passage from the Bible.
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I was solicitous to dive into his thoughts upon this head and put some questions which tended to the point that I wished.
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Forrest's eyes, embracing all of the Big House, centered for a quick solicitous instant on the great wing across the two-hundred-foot court, where, under climbing groups of towers, red-snooded in the morning sun, the drawn shades of the sleeping-porch tokened that his lady still slept.
The Little Lady of the Big House
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When they were young she had been so solicitous of him, always his defender.
YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
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The staff are solicitous rather than importunate.
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solicitous about her health
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I actually felt relieved, but I let him be as solicitous as he wanted.
Olivia
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Many of the ambiguities are surely due to cultural unreadability: these texts are hardly solicitous towards the Western viewer.
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William Brown-Lee was a clever, solicitous man and Alicia considered herself fortunate to have captured his attention.
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The powerful Colonna family, whose antecedents included Pope Martin V, had become titular rulers of Caravaggio's native Duchy of Milan, and showed a solicitous concern for his welfare on several occasions.
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And the manager was most solicitous, arranging for a car and reliable driver for our trip to Hampi, 11 km away.
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Ser-" As the undercaptain extended the provisions bag, and a water bottle, his voice was both solicitous and respectful.
Ordermaster
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The mother, never idle, lays her workbox aside and throws her sewing work over the arm of her chair to listen solicitously as her daughter recites a passage from the Bible.
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I understand the need for clear communication with customers, and I would give the same solicitous treatment to all citizens.
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To that end, there are fine antiques and paintings, overstuffed sofas, roaring log fires, solicitous staff, visiting dogs and spectacular views.
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`Don't you feel well?' his mother asked solicitously
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Mr Cameron is said to be calm and courteous – solicitous of staff.
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On the right, perhaps, would be a shop all open to the road, where, cross-legged upon a kind of daïs, the merchant sat among his piled wares, unenterprising and unsolicitous, serenely confident in the balance-sheet of fate.
Apologia Diffidentis
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Mannan and I wandered into a back alley where two men asked after our health with more solicitousness than was necessary.
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What solicitous member of the crew or passengers made solicitous enquiries about the state of health of the patients in Ward A?
SAN ANDREAS
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Daisy, the unloved eight-year-old in a large family, becomes the willing acolyte to the tender and solicitous Theresa.
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As for the solicitous spouse… they probably started the day complaining bitterly about the patient having tossed and turned all night long.
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Richard Weissbourd, a psychologist at Harvard's School of Education and the Kennedy School of Government, recounts the anecdote about Chris's oversolicitous stepfather in
The Praise Craze
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They also don't cleave to the imagined Japan of old, which occurs to us as a blur of cherry blossoms and hedge gardens, scented with vaguely detected aromas of honor, humility, feudalism, solicitousness, and quietude.
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An architect of the White House's earlier policies dismissed Mr. Bellinger's remarks as "pabulum" from a State Department that is too solicitous of international institutions.
U.S. Accepts International Criminal Court
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In that young community a man who brings home with him abundant European testimonials is still treated with respect (I have found American writers, of wide-world reputation, strangely solicitous about the opinions of quite obscure British critics, and elated or depressed by their judgments); and Irving went home medalled by the King, diplomatized by the University, crowned and honored and admired.
Roundabout Papers
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Profiting by this information, and ever solicitous of the welfare of the Church of Christ, the popes were the first to seize the opportunity for a propaganda in the Far, as well as in the near East.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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He was a mix of austerity and kindness, often a sweet and solicitous friend.
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Beyond that, however, she was cloyingly solicitous, insisting she would send a footman with some of Ballyclose's damson jam.
ALL ABOUT LOVE
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The SEC has yet to issue a ruling, though it's disconcerting to note that SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro has been notably solicitous of unions in her two-year tenure.
Raise My Company's Taxes
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The suggestion was described to WND by spokeswoman Margaret Calhoun Hemenway, a veteran Washington appointee and now volunteer spokeswoman, as being presented in a "solicitous" manner.
RenewAmerica
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They are a double act, too: solicitous of one another and given to the affectionate "we".
Being Duckworth-Lewis: cricket's weather-break mathematicians
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Among the most important of these is the central role of the extended family, which is extremely solicitous of the welfare and reputation of its members.
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Among them, nevertheless, are children still in wheelchairs, adults with crutches, a solicitous woman whose face and arms are speckled still with the dark, livid marks left by flying glass.
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We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him, because he held on his way and scorned our disapprobation.
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In our posh London hotel suite, she glides through, thanks the press girl, and is regally solicitous when a tape recorder coughs and dies.
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No very definite custom or practice seems to be followed; the most common is, that several matrons preside as midwives in the lodge of the parturient, which is, especially in delayed cases, filled to suffocation with indifferently solicitous (?) relations and friends.
Labor Among Primitive Peoples
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solicitous about the future
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He was very solicitous for her safe return.
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The nurses and staff who previously had been so solicitous of his welfare were overjoyed at his new appearance.
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The margaritas were made from scratch though, by an underoccupied and very solicitous barman, and were excellent.
Times, Sunday Times
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The media establishment has always been solicitous of the poor, and through much fine reporting over the years has become intimately familiar with them.
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Justified or not, the National's extreme solicitousness about nudity might not be unrelated to a growing adult panic about premature sexualisation which, despairing at the tide of pornography, repeatedly fixates on banning or suppressing the wrong or most trivial things, from lurid stories to slutty dollies and trashy children's clothes which enrage parents who would never buy them anyway.
Teenagers won't be shocked by a naked man on the stage | Catherine Bennett
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The very terms "grisette" and "lorette" by which young women unblest with wealth or social rank are commonly designated, involve the idea of demoralization -- no man would apply them to one whom he respected and of whose good opinion he was solicitous.
Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851.
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Most people find Her a little garrulous and oversolicitous, but She cannot be accused of not caring.
'Sum: Forty Tales From the Afterlives'
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The processes that will be used to allow public scrutiny of the proposals will vary from province to province, but they will be based on principles adopted in Calgary, and they will be scrupulously solicitous of grassroots opinion.
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He will be very solicitous, but the very idea of what he calls'woman problems' makes him uneasy, the knucklehead.
AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
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Another commentator derided the presenter's ‘mixture of solicitous concern, unctuous charm and glib moralising.’
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This alone was more afflicting to me than the shame of faltering before so many witnesses, which, notwithstanding, was sufficiently painful; for though not oversolicitous of praise, I was feelingly alive to shame; yet I can truly affirm, the dread of being reprimanded by Miss Lambercier alarmed me less than the thought of making her uneasy.
The Confessions of J J Rousseau
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Dick, many years before, because of a certain solicitous contraction of her delicate brows that made her appear as if ever on the verge of saying, “Oh dear!”
CHAPTER IX
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If the project has been reasonably solicitous of poor people on the rental end, it has been less so when it comes to the planned 360 for-sale houses and town homes.
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As he looked back at her, rough-coated and grief-stricken, he could see Terrence hovering solicitously near her.
Chapter 1
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Or he may have been solicitous to procure from the apostles a message for his Gentile churches, giving an authoritative contradiction to the insinuations of his enemies as to the unapostolic character of his gospel.
The Life of St. Paul
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Foghorn J. Leghorn, D-State, announced Tuesday that he had won an extra $14.7 million in stimulating funds from the solicitous Obama Administration for the people of seven congressional districts in Texas.
Sen. Foghorn Leghorn (D): ‘Working for TX-45. Working for YOU.’ - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
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Should a professor choose to reject the study or insist on changes not agreeable to the sponsor, another university scientist will very likely be more solicitous.
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The service was pleasant, but oversolicitous.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is attentive, even solicitous, and Theresa accepts a dinner date.
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Hadfield goes catatonic with terror, and is solicitously carried off to re-education in the jungle.
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There was nothing especially wrong with the food, apart from its staggering and stupid expense, or the restaurant staff, who were kind and solicitous, although a little remiss in the tasks of delivering food and wine.
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How little these true barbarians know of the solicitous tendresse to which they are subject, or the colonial telegrams that have passed to and from the Gibraltar cable station, attesting to their contentment, or their decline.
The ends of the earth
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An attitude that started out as solicitous and respectful becomes condescending and mocking.
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Bagado spoke to him in Yoruba, sounding solicitous, respecting his elders, and made notes in his little book.
BLOOD IS DIRT
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solicitous parents
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The Stung Arm being informed of the whole design, pretended to approve of it, and leaving her son at ease, henceforward was only solicitous how she might defeat this barbarous design: the time was pressing, and the term prefixed for the execution was almost expired.
History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing
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Since he had a project of his own, he was only too glad to see die last of his oversolicitous family for awhile.
Ralestone Luck
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He was very solicitous for her safe return.
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Like most supernatural virtues, it has a laic shadow; the counsel to abstain, and to be unsolicitous, is one not only of perfection, but also of polity.
The Precept of Peace
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Another toper, incapable of standing, is solicitously helped by his friends through the gate of the innyard.
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They were all overly solicitous, each offering to do something, but I shooed them off, telling them to return to their duties as I headed for my office.
Olivia
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When the acrospire has shot but half the length of the grain, the lower part only is converted into that mellow saccharine flour we are solicitous of, whilst the other half exhibits no other signs of it than the whole kernel did at its first germination: let it advance to two thirds of the length, and the lower end will not only have increased its saccharine flavour, but will have proportionably extended its bulk, so as to have left one third part unmalted.
The American Practical Brewer and Tanner
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The man was poor and wretched and had no claim upon the ruler, no right even to lift a solicitous hand.
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Anthony was very solicitous, making sure Deb and I were okay.
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They didn't chase my assailants but helped me to my feet, solicitously enquiring after my health.
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And the things he now knows about her... But his eyes are sleepy and calm, and his voice is casually solicitous.
THE SAVAGE GIRL
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Having thus acknowledged his dependence on the Norwegian crown, he was solicitous to promote the security and happiness of his kingdom, by forming alliances with the neighbouring princes.
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He leant over their table like a solicitous waiter, holding his warrant card.
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As to what became of them, Tanqueray had never seen anybody more unsolicitous, more reckless of the dark event.
The Creators A Comedy
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Will and the chaplain may have played against him, solicitous constantly to increase their stakes, and supposing that the wealthy Virginian wished to let them recover all their losings.
The Virginians
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After grabbing ourselves a table, and having a high chair rolled on up by one of the super solicitous staff members, we paused to enjoy the view.
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Mr Elliot had attempted no apology, and shewn himself as unsolicitous of being longer noticed by the family, as Sir Walter considered him unworthy of it: all acquaintance between them had ceased.
Persuasion
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Even on the 20 minute plane trip as we climbed to 10,000 feet (great views, by the way), they were solicitous of me and my welfare, and at the end shared my elation, as if it were their first jump too.
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She uttered solicitous cries, and, as Michael strove to rise on his ruined foreleg, scolded him with sharp gentleness and with her arms tried to hold him away from the battle.
CHAPTER XXIX
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made solicitous inquiries about our family
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Bagado spoke to him in Yoruba, sounding solicitous, respecting his elders, and made notes in his little book.
BLOOD IS DIRT
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In response to mounting complaints at the Prince George's school, someone in Human Resources issued an edict: aggrieved employees could simply remove the solicitous white cards.
Prince George's faculty unhappy with customer-service badges
