1 Ellen ate diligently, but Scarlett could see that she was too tired to know what she was eating.
2 For Carreen picked diligently and earnestly.
3 There was the open door of the office where Ellen had labored so diligently and she could glimpse a corner of the old secretary.
4 At one end a ruminating tar was still further adorning it with his jack-knife, stooping over and diligently working away at the space between his legs.
5 A short-handled sharp spade being sent up to him, he diligently searches for the proper place to begin breaking into the Tun.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 78. Cistern and Buckets. 6 Hands go diligently along the bulwarks, and with buckets of water and rags restore them to their full tidiness.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 98. Stowing Down and Clearing Up. 7 The competitors for this office sought as diligently to please their overseers, as the office-seekers in the political parties seek to please and deceive the people.
8 They had been taught to read and write, diligently instructed in the truths of religion, and their lot had been as happy an one as in their condition it was possible to be.
9 The beast and I were brought close together, and by our countenances diligently compared both by master and servant, who thereupon repeated several times the word Yahoo.
10 They worked diligently hardly raising their faces from the ground, and not knowing whether to be more frightened of the pigs or of the human visitors.
11 I sat up on the coping of the bridge admiring my frail canvas shoes which I had diligently pipeclayed overnight and watching the docile horses pulling a tramload of business people up the hill.
12 The host followed with Marya Antonovna Naryshkina; then came ambassadors, ministers, and various generals, whom Peronskaya diligently named.
13 Magua approached the horses, and affected to be well pleased with the diligence and ingenuity of his comrades.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 10 14 But all this diligence and speed were not without an object.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 10 15 Here the scout seemed to be once more at home, for he held on this way with the certainty and diligence of a man who moved in the security of his own knowledge.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 14