The motive of this assiduity was at length revealed to me, by a violent and fervent declaration of love, which astonished and perplexed me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Mary Robinson] Reference

Or maybe a nap first, since I honestly have no clue if I used "assiduity" properly above, a sure sign that I'm tired.    From Wordnik.com.  [how not to be a writer] Reference

Their battalions practised skirmishing on the glacis with that routine assiduity which is the secret of the German military success.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places] Reference

They were remarkable for their assiduity in praying and fasting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

He rubbed the wounded organ with astonishing assiduity for some time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference

Dye it therefore and thoroughly soak it with the assiduity of these cogitations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meditations] Reference

He preached industry everywhere, and drilled his regiments with zealous assiduity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes of Modern Europe] Reference

Of all nations the Egyptians had, with the greatest assiduity, cultivated astronomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference

Then we took to the boat, and began to fish the well-known water with careful assiduity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference

He was an orator by nature, and by his indomitable assiduity he at once rose to prominence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference

The other must make compensation by increased assiduity and devotion to its honor and welfare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference

To this task she devoted herself with that assiduity and patience for which she was distinguished.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference

The complaints of the governor's conduct appear to have been kept up with the same restless assiduity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference

The interior is a beautiful plain, rich in pastures, well wooded, and cultivated with the greatest assiduity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference

St. Zebinus, our saint's master, surpassed all the solitaries of his time, with regard to assiduity in prayer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

At length he took priest's orders, and performed the duties of his office with great assiduity and punctuality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference

Even the doctor gave him up; but the girl, who had attended to him with the most unwearying assiduity had hopes to the last.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference

She solaced them in their sufferings with unwearied assiduity, and gave them the delicacies she received from the commander.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference

These he fulfilled with assiduity, zeal, and knowledge, till the very moment when he was to treasure up the different crops.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference

She had supplied herself betimes with a manual of etiquette, which she had studied with the assiduity of a diligent school-girl.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference

I received one letter from her; she said that my assiduity was causing talk in the village, and begged me to call less frequently.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

His assiduity was such, that whenever he left the convent for any time, he would give money to the cook to prevail on him to supply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference

The painter was therefore set to work, and as he wrought with assiduity and expedition, in less than four days the whole was completed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference

R---- and P---- might have angled for five hours, and the result of their assiduity was as diverse as pain is to pleasure, whatever the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference

Whether the rumor was the cause of their attention, or their assiduity the foundation of the report, the reader must determine for himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference

Her immolation of self, her assiduity, her tenderness, her skill, all seemed to this man so many elements in the game which she was playing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference

If we ignore Sir James Frazer's naïve speculations we can make use of the compilations of evidence which he makes with such remarkable assiduity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

We have many relics of remote antiquity and exquisite workmanship existing now, which prove the talent and assiduity of our early Saxon forefathers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bibliomania in the Middle Ages] Reference

The Zards then set to work with great assiduity searching for any clues of the Canitaur's whereabouts, examining everything meticulously, yet quickly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Revolutions of Time] Reference

Notwithstanding Professor Wuttke's recognized ability and assiduity as a historical investigator, I am unable to adopt the position at which he arrives.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference

In producing of grain and the other fruits of the earth, they labour with more assiduity and patience than is suitable to the usual laziness of Germans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tacitus on Germany] Reference

Last session the committees, though they performed their duties with much zeal and assiduity, were hardly able to overtake the amount of business before them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference

Herschel merited when we consider with what unwearied assiduity and patience he laboured to accomplish the results described in the words which have been quoted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference

The time on board ship when she had so systematically avoided him, and cultivated with assiduity the one who had ruined her, stood up before her with awful distinctness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Carved Cupboard] Reference

Here, for the first time, we saw capers, with a profusion of every sort of esculent vegetable, which the inhabitants cultivate with great assiduity, losing not an inch of ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819] Reference