assiduities
Example Sentences
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The reputation of Lord Frederick's attentions gave me much more pleasure than the attentions themselves; and my companions knew how to flatter me, by reminding me of his assiduities.
From Discipline by Mary Brunton
To this interesting object all her assiduities and time are religiously devoted.
From Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World by Anonymous
It is little attentions and assiduities that sweeten the bitter draught and smooth the rugged road.
From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Abigail Adams
The more they showed themselves inexorable, the more Mademoiselle redoubled her assiduities.
From Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 by Arvede Barine
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
