take pains with
Example Sentences
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By the nineteen-thirties, he seems too preoccupied to take pains with his style.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 16, 2015
I do not see that, if you take pains with yourself.
From A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
The thistle has still many more, As visible too in our eyes, But who will take pains with a weed, That nobody ever can prize?
From Poems by Betham, Matilda
He was simply a young man, and I would not value any young man who did not take pains with his personal appearance, even at the risk of being thought proud.
From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Stables, Gordon
The schoolmaster's wife liked handsome children.—"What a genius will Master Ferdinand Fitzroy be, if you take pains with him!" said she, to her husband.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 340, Supplementary Number (1828) by Various
