This illusion has been sedulously fostered. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : sedulous flattery. From Dictionary.com.
Had she not bent sedulously over the rose of the poet?. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
He had visited her sedulously during the King's illness, and. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty] Reference
Yet no man toiled more sedulously in this campaign than Seward. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
There was also another secret which she and Tom sedulously guarded. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference
I asked Lucy Ashton, who had returned very sedulously to her knitting. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
Benevolence in their relations to one another is sedulously cultivated. From Wordnik.com. [In and Around Berlin] Reference
All public display of an affectionate nature should be sedulously avoided. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
Bartels, who was sedulously studying a long row of figures on a reinsurance bordereau. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
It has been charged with tediousness, and tedious it may become if not sedulously varied. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
Both had thus far been sedulously side-stepping direct reference to their moment of parting. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference
Yet he sedulously avoided giving expression, even to himself, to his desires and aspirations. From Wordnik.com. [Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812] Reference
But she kept herself sedulously apart from him, and it was only at the table that they met at all. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
No other European language has been elaborately and sedulously formed and cultivated like the French. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
The patient must be sedulously protected from vicissitudes of the temperature and be in bed between blankets. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881] Reference
The hours of relaxation from business he sedulously devoted to the concerns of literature, especially poetry. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Not doubting that this was really the shadow of the planet, I immediately applied myself sedulously to observe it. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
He had no thought of literary fame, published little, and sedulously avoided whatever might bring him into notoriety. From Wordnik.com. [Education and the Higher Life] Reference
From his youth a devoted student, he has, amidst the exigencies of business, sedulously kept up his literary pursuits. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
"I require," rejoined Faustus, "that you should sedulously attend unto me, answer my inquiries, and fulfil my behests.". From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
Among all the reports which this excited period produced, none was more sedulously diffused, and none more generally believed. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
No, a modest phrase must express honest pride -- "my reputation as a pianiste which I guard sedulously," or "defend zealously.". From Wordnik.com. [Conversation What to Say and How to Say it] Reference
Her prose is characterized by sedulously researched, deceptively simple patterns that give way to intuitive and controversial leaps. From Wordnik.com. [Mixed Media] Reference
Rubens was the most conscientious coin and medal gatherer of his time, and applied them sedulously to the furtherance of his divine gifts. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
We sedulously cultivate the friendship of all nations as the conditions most compatible with our welfare and the principles of our Government. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
But the old myth sedulously cultivated by Republicans continued in 1917, that only Republicans are fit to govern, no matter how badly they govern. From Wordnik.com. [Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him] Reference
Susel is sedulously engaged in selecting flowers and cherries for her landlord, who, coming down into the garden, is presented by her with flowers. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
And yet not unfrequently they have been treated as if they had no virtues; while their sins and follies have been sedulously immortalized in satirical anecdote. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
Nor has any writer appeared so outrageous to charge it upon Tiberius; though in other instances they have sedulously collected and inflamed every action of his. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola] Reference
He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers, and ceases when he has no more to say, is in possession of some of the best requisites of man. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
"He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers, and ceases when he has no more to say, is in possession of some of the best requisites of man.". From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Character] Reference
I have been sketching sedulously; I have discovered, within a couple of miles 'walk, a large, lonely pond, set in quite a grand landscape of barren rocks and grassy slopes. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
The fear that she might think him dogging her footsteps worried him, and he began as sedulously to avoid the places he knew she frequented, as he previously had sought them. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
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