assiduities
Example Sentences
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I left no stone unturned to be of service to them, without being taken in by their interested assiduities.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Henry Cabot Lodge
What though his uncouth gestures provoked a smile, and his assiduities to the young lady were commented on at every hand.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 by Various
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
As if my good genius warned me of my fate, I disliked him so much at first, that I felt unhappy in his presence; but his assiduities gradually won upon me.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI by Alexander Leighton
Here there was no obstacle to skill, and here the assiduities of many years in addition to a prompt and ardent genius, set her beyond the hopes of rivalship.
From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown
