sedulous study brought the happy benefit of acceptance to graduate school. From LearnThat.org.
Adjective : sedulous flattery. From Dictionary.com.
He was the most stay-at-home and sedulous of our ministers. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
Dictatorship were particularly sedulous to restrain what they called. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference
And yet she continued to find time for the sedulous culture of her mind. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary] Reference
But if these gallants were sedulous, she was correspondingly indifferent. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
I was getting, in my quiet way, rather sedulous and self-reproachful about you. From Wordnik.com. [Erema] Reference
Treatise of the learned Dr. Deane and the sedulous observations of the ingenious. From Wordnik.com. [Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain] Reference
As might have been expected, his opponents were sedulous in pointing out its defects. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
She wondered what sort of herbs they were which the old man was so sedulous to gather. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Letter] Reference
Hollanders in South Africa were nevertheless their eager abettors and sedulous henchmen. From Wordnik.com. [Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked] Reference
We are as sedulous now for cleanliness and ventilation in our mental as in our physical atmosphere. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference
A long correspondence with many learned friends, and a sedulous study of the latest geographers, especially. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
"You have to give them some space," said Ms. Merrill, a sedulous student of self-styled Dog Whisperer Cesar Millan. From Wordnik.com. [Her Portrait Subjects Sit, Fetch and Roll Over] Reference
To be sedulous in promoting another's good, also to flatter, is to honour; as a sign we seek his protection or aid. From Wordnik.com. [Leviathan] Reference
Cousin Edwin, who had undoubtedly been the source of this information, buttered his roll with sedulous concentration. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
Thomas whom he said he had watched turn grey and careworn in office, sedulous at his desk, always busy, never at ease. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
Some, of more refined parts and notional minds, do arise unto a sedulous meditation on the works of creation and providence. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ] Reference
A devout man, as well as sedulous in preserving the favour he enjoyed with the Benedictines, and the security of his employment. From Wordnik.com. [The Raven In The Foregate]
He now begs them to search with the most sedulous care, and should any of the same quality be left, to forward it to him at once. From Wordnik.com. [The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde] Reference
However deep a resentment she might be forced to hold against her husband, she would never fail in sedulous attention to his wants. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference
What in others would have concluded in a vacant mien and colorless repose, in him expressed all that he was so sedulous to conceal. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
Others endeavour to be sober, temperate, just, honest and upright in their dealings, with a sedulous performance of religious duties. From Wordnik.com. [Pneumatologia] Reference
We may take it for granted that with a man so sedulous as to all his duties there was no arrear of work when the accident took place. From Wordnik.com. [Phineas Finn] Reference
With his wife, he took sedulous care of the education of his children, of whom there were no less than six at her early death in 1720. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in Music] Reference
It is a noteworthy fact that a large percentage of the leading stock brokers, bankers, active statesmen, and sedulous lawyers are bibliophiles. From Wordnik.com. [Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs] Reference
But if he gave me a chance I would try, and desperately, through sedulous service and unstinting love, to make myself well worth remembering to him!. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer Of Gor]
The Revolution of 1688 brought up other influences more hostile still to the Proprietary; and the Province, which was always sedulous to follow the fashions of. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860] Reference
If Sardou suffered through playing the sedulous ape to a histrionic artist, it is no less true that the same practice has been advantageous to M. Edmond Rostand. From Wordnik.com. [The Theory of the Theatre] Reference
As a result of a sedulous study of historical sentimentalities, traditions, dialects and local feelings, a whole cluster of new sovereign Powers, Czechoslovakia. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference
I have thus played the sedulous ape to Hazlitt, to Lamb, to Wordsworth, to Sir Thomas Browne, to Defoe, to Hawthorne, to Montaigne, to Baudelaire and to Obermann. From Wordnik.com. [Memories and Portraits] Reference
Was the flock they had gathered with so much prayer and effort, and reared with such sedulous care, to be thus summarily divided and perhaps in consequence scattered?. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years in South China The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D.] Reference
These necessary concessions we shall obtain from our minds without much difficulty, if the following four considerations become the objects of our sedulous attention. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1] Reference
Before his departure, however, he shook hands with old Janet, who had been so sedulous in his behalf, and added substantial marks of his gratitude for her attendance. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
When the mind is not sufficiently opened to take pleasure in reflection, the body will be adorned with sedulous care; and ambition will appear in tattooing or painting it. From Wordnik.com. [A Vindication of the Rights of Woman] Reference
Lily might certainly learn a great deal from Lady Alexandrina; and it was this conviction, no doubt, which made him so sedulous in pleasing that lady on the present occasion. From Wordnik.com. [The Small House at Allington] Reference
The plan is in accordance with that sedulous avoidance of the concentration of great masses of power in the same hands, which is a marked characteristic of the American Federal. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Government] Reference
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