assiduities

Example Sentences

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Their women did not marry until after they had arrived at the age of maturity, and had become sensible to the assiduities of courtship. 

From An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha by Hamilton, Francis

Oh, he was not the first man who had done it! not the first who had worn a lover's looks and used all a lover's assiduities, and then—nothing more.

From A Country Gentleman and his Family by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

To this interesting object all her assiduities and time are religiously devoted.

From Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World by Anonymous

Once or twice I thought of him, and with an indistinct feeling of self-reproach; but I was occupied with the assiduities of my new admirer, and had no leisure to consider of propriety.

From Discipline by Brunton, Mary

Yet, that she might not weary and utterly repulse the notary's passion, the creole seemed sometimes touched by his assiduities, and flattered by the control which she exercised over him.

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 5 of 6 by Sue, Eugène