solicitude

How To Use solicitude In A Sentence

• You would scarcely imagine that this copper is deemed worthy to be hoarded; yet such is the people's aversion from the paper, and such their mistrust of the government, that not an housewife will part with one of these pieces while she has an assignat in her possession; and those who are rich enough to keep a few livres by them, amass and bury this copper treasure with the utmost solicitude and secresy. A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part II., 1793 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
• But how varied, how ingenious in incident, how full of funny gesture and dry discrimination, is this undergraduate epic; with such a gay gallopade of mortality and such decorative archaism of expression, and such a solicitude for words. Zuleika Dobson
• I have argued that in the United States the conjunction of many factors resulted in the special solicitude toward children that condemned child labor.
• Your solicitude so kindly exprest for my success and reputation, demands acknowledgments and thanks such as do not allways come readily to the nib of my pen, but lie skulking about my Heart in various shapes and colours, refusing to be brought forward but by force; and then, like many other forced fruits are apt to come, from my hand, very imperfectly and without relish. Letter 80
• Do you play with or without the roquet-croquet?" has now come to be the first point of mutual solicitude in a mixed party. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866
• Khusrû was treated with great kindness by his father, after he had been barbarously deprived of sight; [17] but when his brother, Shâh Jahân, was appointed to the government of Southern India, he pretended great solicitude about the comforts of his _poor blind brother_, which he thought would not be attended to at court, and took him with him to his government in the Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
• The round-the-clock communications and solicitude evidently required for her maintenance demanded a heroism if not masochism in her patient allies.
• It is not strange that with such a chorister in charge, all solicitude about anthems and voluntaries vanished from the preacher's mind.
• Katherine said that no man has ever treated her as well as Jake has, which either is a testament to Jake's solicitude or a condemnation of her previous relationships.
• Though displaying no overt solicitude, the tavern owner seemed helpful.