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

What business has he, who can never claim any rights over her, to expose her, by his assiduities, to the coarse gossip of a gaping village?

From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda

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 Brown, Charles Brockden

Your best chance would be to double your assiduities to Miss Alscrip.

From The Heiress; a comedy, in five acts by Burgoyne, John

The tender assiduities of birds in their attachments is no less remarkable than their courage in defence of their mates and young ones.

From The Emigrant's Lost Son or, Life Alone in the Forest by Anonymous