sedulity

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To the best of their ability the four strove to shield her without her being able to perceive their sedulity.

From The Unwilling Vestal by White, Edward Lucas

Upton conjectures that Leicester's displeasure was incurred for "some kind of officious sedulity in Spenser, who much desired to see his patron married to the Queen."

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund

Very few persons practise serious self-examination at all; and none employ the power of self-inspection with that carefulness and sedulity with which they ought.

From Sermons to the Natural Man by Shedd, William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer)

Nor would he have scrupled a moment desiring him to leave the room, had he not prudently determined to guard with the utmost sedulity against raising any suspicions of his passion for Cecilia.

From Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1 by Burney, Fanny

Mr. Murray and Mr. Vandenhoff, with great good taste, attended on Sir Walter Scott's right and left, and we know that he has expressed himself much gratified by their anxious politeness and sedulity.

From Chronicles of the Canongate by Scott, Walter, Sir