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
William, by a hundred assiduities, endeavoured to recover Amelia's cheerfulness, again to spread a smile on her clouded countenance, and make her renew her usual pleasing prattle.
From The Looking-Glass for the Mind or Intellectual Mirror by John Bewick
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 Francis Hamilton
Despite their assiduities I was seized with ennui.
From Adventures in the Philippine Islands by Paul P. de La Gironière
And such, no doubt, if meant as attentions to herself, would have been many humble assiduities, which, for Caroline's sake, he willingly paid her ladyship.
From Dilemmas of Pride, (Vol 1 of 3) by Margracia Loudon
