assiduities
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For his sake dowagers mince in white and silver, and at times he has to take to his bed to protect himself from their assiduities.'
From Parson Kelly by Andrew Lang
"Gentlemen of the Clergy in New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia,— "Your most zealous exertions, your unremitting assiduities, are pathetically invoked.
From White Slavery in the Barbary States by Charles Sumner
Your best chance would be to double your assiduities to Miss Alscrip.
From The Heiress; a comedy, in five acts by John Burgoyne
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 John Mackay Wilson
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
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