ASSIDUOUS in a Sentence

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de Morcerf is one of the most assiduous peers at the Luxembourg, a general renowned for theory, but a most mediocre amateur of art.

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 Meanings and Examples of ASSIDUOUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
assiduous
 a.  constant in application or attention; diligent; unceasing or persistent
Classic Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  At all events, within an hour's time they issued, arm in arm, and in profound silence, yet remaining markedly assiduous to one another, and ever ready to help one another around an awkward corner.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
2  Dohkturov, a little man, sat opposite Weyrother, with an assiduous and modest mien, and stooping over the outspread map conscientiously studied the dispositions and the unfamiliar locality.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII
3  de Morcerf is one of the most assiduous peers at the Luxembourg, a general renowned for theory, but a most mediocre amateur of art.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 41. The Presentation.
4  Mary would sit and watch me by the hour together: then she would take lessons; and a docile, intelligent, assiduous pupil she made.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
5  She was more softened, more gentle; and, though equally assiduous in every duty, it was with a chastened and quiet air, as one who communed with her own heart not in vain.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
6  But it was to the mortification of touch he brought the most assiduous ingenuity of inventiveness.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
7  Had the unhappy man on whom she lavished her assiduities been previously acquainted with her, so sudden an alteration might well have excited suspicion in his mind, or at least have greatly astonished him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 45. The Rain of Blood.
8  To this end she assiduously showed herself at the restaurants they frequented, where, attended by the troubled Gerty, she lunched luxuriously, as she said, on her expectations.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
9  Mrs. Hatch's MILIEU was one which he had once assiduously frequented, and now as devoutly shunned.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
10  Mrs. Cutter painted china so assiduously that even her wash-bowls and pitchers, and her husband's shaving-mug, were covered with violets and lilies.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
11  Eva stole away; but after that, she assiduously gave Mammy reading lessons.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
12  And Mrs Bolton, always ready, had begun at once, and practised assiduously.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
13  I am assiduously, admirably looked after by Mrs Bolton.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
14  While Sir Walter and Elizabeth were assiduously pushing their good fortune in Laura Place, Anne was renewing an acquaintance of a very different description.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
15  Her sufferings were physical as well as mental, for over one eye rose a hideous, plum-coloured swelling, which her maid, a tall, austere woman, was bathing assiduously with vinegar and water.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
Example Sentence:
1  He was assiduous in his attendance at church.
2  The Government has been assiduous in the fight against inflation.
3  He was assiduous, working at this task for weeks before he felt satisfied with his results.
4  Before apartheid ended, I assiduously avoided buying South African products.
5  They labour assiduously for the benefit of future generations.