assiduities

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The more they showed themselves inexorable, the more Mademoiselle redoubled her assiduities.

From Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 by Barine, Arvede

Mr. Larkin's assiduities and flatteries were, in truth, telling upon Lord Verney, with whom he was stealing into a general confidence which alarmed many people, and which Cleve Verney hated more than ever.

From The Tenants of Malory Volume 3 of 3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

Do you not feel within your own breast a repugnance to the assiduities he at all times takes pains to shew you?

From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Cavendish, Georgiana

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 Adams, Abigail