They hoed up weeds industriously all morning. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an industrious person. From Dictionary.com.
There is no failure in this country for those whose personal habits are good, and who follow some honest calling industriously, unselfishly, and purely. From Wordnik.com. [How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune] Reference
Champlain himself industriously began to fight them. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
Hope were industriously studying a picture on the wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Lilac Lady] Reference
For half an hour or so Trix worked industriously, indefatigably. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
The boys have worked faithfully and industriously in the timber on. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
And she was sewing away industriously as she brooded over her woes. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
A spirit of opposition, unless industriously fanned, soon dies down. From Wordnik.com. [India and the Indians] Reference
How industriously she used to practise 'Woodland Warblings,' 'My Pretty. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
"Guy on my research team," said VanDeusen, plying his fork industriously. From Wordnik.com. [The Highest Treason] Reference
They also admitted numerous mosquitoes, which sung and stung industriously. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
The lobster was trapped so industriously that it also began to grow scarce. From Wordnik.com. [Conservation Reader] Reference
So he lent his aid and searched through the city as industriously as possible. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
The boys ground away industriously at the handles of the moving picture cameras. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast] Reference
That lump had come back into her throat and she was industriously swallowing it. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
At a large and massive table sat a dozen persons most industriously employed in writing. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
He went industriously to work, and father thought that he had quietly yielded the point. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
They are now industriously and earnestly developing a comfortable home on their own farm. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
There, just where they had left it, was the camera, the motor clicking away industriously. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast] Reference
Closing the door behind them, he went to the stove and began to stir the fire industriously. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
Italian was industriously grinding out, and they laughed and shouted and were perfectly happy. From Wordnik.com. [Judy of York Hill] Reference
Mother and Mrs. Ridlet sewed industriously, now and then looking up at each other and laughing. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892] Reference
But with this exception, we were as quiet as if industriously engaged in some ordinary occupation. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
Schools of cookery have made of cooking an art to be industriously followed where success is desired. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
When Ed came back with a light Peters was looking industriously for the purse, but declared he had not seen it. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island] Reference
She dispatched Gertie and Chicken Little to Mrs. Smith's for more flowers while she trimmed away industriously. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
It also shows the importance of young people industriously and economically doing what they can to help themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
Bertie copied industriously for an hour, never raising his head from his desk; then his master's voice startled him. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
Germans had been sniping industriously, with some success, but after sunset they started singing, and we replied with carols. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
"Oh, we'll never get over that!" declared Mollie, who was industriously putting hairpins where they would be more serviceable. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake Or, the stirring cruise of the motor boat Gem] Reference
Go back and labor as industriously to disabuse the minds of your constituencies as you labored to mislead and impose upon them. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
One half the natural capacity, employed industriously in lawful commerce, would have made the captain comfortable and independent. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
One or two, of the woodpecker tribe, looked wonderfully natural and home-like, as they sat industriously drumming upon hollow logs. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
In front of one of the tents several gypsy boys sat grouped in picturesque attitudes, industriously twanging guitars and mandolins. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School] Reference
Ara Brown, an Oak Hill student, and they are now industriously and successfully improving their own farm near the academy at Valliant. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
They felt themselves to have been rescued from most unfounded imputations that had been industriously attempted to be fixed upon them. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
Under her raincoat she is dressed in black, the costume of the self-dramatising existentialists, with her sleeves industriously rolled up. From Wordnik.com. [The big picture: Paris, 1956 – Audrey Hepburn on the set of Funny Face] Reference
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