Nor would he have scrupled a moment desiring him to leave the room, had he not prudently determined to guard with the utmost sedulity against raising any suspicions of his passion for Cecilia. From Wordnik.com. [Cecilia] Reference
And to instigate men unto an abounding sedulity in the observation of them, their minds were stuffed with traditions and stories of visions, apparitions, frightful spirits, and other imaginations that poor mortals are apt to be amazed withal, and which their restless disquietments gave countenance unto. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Justification by Faith] Reference
There is nothing more operative than sedulity and diligence. From Wordnik.com. [Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources] Reference
Yet, Lucy, we should all be pleased with the sedulity which we affect to ridicule. From Wordnik.com. [The Wife; or, Caroline Herbert] Reference
We read of the mystery of iniquity; and certainly the mystery of no trade can be attained without a long and a constant sedulity. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.] Reference
He worked with exhausting sedulity and expended upon it all the gifts in his power, with the result that his work has taken its places as a classic. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference
Solomon was himself a ruler, and knew with what sedulity men made their application to him, some on one errand, others on another, but all for his favour. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference
Very few persons practise serious self-examination at all; and none employ the power of self-inspection with that carefulness and sedulity with which they ought. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons to the Natural Man] Reference
Moreover, the king was in the habit of hearing the divine scriptures read by his own countrymen, or, if by any chance it so happened, in company with foreigners, and he attended to it with sedulity and solicitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of King Alfred]
Her unaffected indifference to all his fine speeches, her unremitted sedulity to please my brother, (yet these sedulities, "not obvious, not obtrusive,") convinced his Lordship, I suppose, of the folly of his attempts. —. From Wordnik.com. [The Wife; or, Caroline Herbert] Reference
As for you, nobilissim praegustators, and my gentilissim masticators, your frequently experimented industry, internected with perdiligent sedulity and sedulous perdiligence, continually adjuvates you to perficiate all things in so expeditious a manner that there is no necessity of exciting in you a cupidity to consummate them. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5] Reference
A man full of English accuracy; English veracity, solidity, simplicity; by whom this universal Jail-commission, not to be paid for in money but far otherwise, is set about, with all the slow energy, the patience, practicality, sedulity and sagacity common to the best English commissioners paid in money and not expressly otherwise. From Wordnik.com. [Latter-Day Pamphlets] Reference
For that has first pushed them on upon the account of necessity, which being satisfied, they have aimed a step higher at convenience; and so being at length inured to a course of virtuous and generous sedulity, pleasure has continued that, which necessity first began; till their endeavours have been crowned with eminence, mastership, and perfection in the way they have been engaged in. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.] Reference
Cecilia, though shocked and frightened at the occasion, was yet by no means sorry at an order which thus precluded all conversation; unfitted for it by her own misery, she was glad to be relieved from all necessity of imposing upon herself the irksome task of finding subjects for discourse to which she was wholly indifferent, while obliged with sedulity to avoid those by which alone her mind was occupied. From Wordnik.com. [Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3] Reference
The Rev.Mr. Veal used to compliment Georgy upon it personally, warning him that he was destined for a high station; that it became him to prepare, by sedulity and docility in youth, for the lofty duties to which he would be called in mature age; that obedience in the child was the best preparation for command in the man; and that he therefore begged George would not bring toffee into the school and ruin the health of the Masters Bangles, who had everything they wanted at the elegant and abundant table of Mrs. Veal. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
A pentecostalist of the insolation cyclic seaquake runtiness and an anticancer prodding of the lietuva sedulity slaw. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
He plainly tells me, that Mr. Fenwick’s arrival from abroad, and another certain person’s also, are the occasion of his resumed sedulity. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
The Rev.Mr. Veal used to compliment Georgy upon it personally, warning him that he was destined for a high station; that it became him to prepare, by sedulity and docility in youth, for the lofty duties to which he would be called in mature age; that obedience in the child was the best preparation for command in the man; and that he therefore begged George would not bring toffee into the school and ruin the health of the Masters Bangles, who had everything they wanted at the elegant and abundant table of Mr.. Veal. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
It would be labour to me, at this time, to give you minute particulars: suffice it that Sir Philip’s sedulity to continue his ward the subject of our discourse, together with several good round intimations — one of which, accompanied with a significant look, was — “I can tell you, Mr. Stanley. From Wordnik.com. [Vicissitudes in Genteel Life] Reference
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