assiduities

Example Sentences

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Night and day I will watch and tend you, till the assiduities of my affection weary out the effects of your cruel disease brought on you—O God!—by your grief for me, your worthless Espras.”

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative by Wilson, John Mackay

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

No assiduities 19 can win him to take the least notice of the crew, and I soon discovered, that, when the captain and myself were below, he endured many a persecution.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker

He was not likely to meet with a repulse from so gentle a creature, but the acquiescence with which she received his assiduities seemed more the result of habitual passiveness than of reciprocal attachment.

From The Flower Basket A Fairy Tale by Unknown

Could it have been with the purpose of ridding herself of the assiduities of Mr. Duryea?

From Hand and Ring by Green, Anna Katharine