Already it had been whispered that despite his assiduous care and devotion during her illness, something serious was amiss.
The endeavor to equal or to excel another in qualities or actions; an assiduous striving to equal or excel another; rivalry.
I would not cease To wearyhim with my assiduous cries.
The quality or state of being sedulous; diligent and assiduous application; constant attention; unremitting industry; sedulousness.
By means of assiduous care and artificial methods of diverting the disease, the alarming symptoms visibly subsided.
Be sure, sir, I have noticed everything even during the time when sharp suffering seemed to obliterate my light, and I shall never forget the assiduous attentions with which you have lavished upon me personally.
Almost octogenarian, he was fresh and vigorous to the last, and among the most assiduous and deserving members.
Terremondre was one of the most assiduous visitors.
There was a stroke in him swift as lightning, well aimed mostly, and of a respectable weight withal, which shattered asunder a whole world of impediments for him by assiduous repetition of it for fifty years.
The most surprising news is Lord Bathurst's assiduous court to their Royal Highnesses, which fills the coffee-houses with profound speculations.
His Highness promised to mend his manners, and from that time was very assiduous in waiting upon her.
Heeding ancient advice, I leaf through the works of the Ancients With an assiduous hand.
Fogs of the dreary north remain a more baleful remembrance Than in the kitchens of Rome tribes of assiduous fleas.
He was assiduous to teach me every thing he knew; and fortunately I was no less apt and eager to learn.
His endeavours were very assiduous indeed, and to me very ridiculous; but his lordship seemed to receive his cringing and abject flattery as a thing rather of course, and expected, than displeasing or contemptible.
This great astronomer and benefactor to science devoted five years of the most assiduous toil in observing and delineating the astronomical objects of that portion of the heavens.
The first planet, which occupied the particular attention of Kepler, was Mars, the long and assiduous study of whose motions conducted him at length to the discovery of those great principles called 'Kepler's Laws.
Few congregations are more assiduous in the performance of their duties.
There she received innumerable visits, she paid assiduous court to the Queen, who had suddenly formed a taste for her, and took her on her walks and her visits to the communities; but this new Marquise saw me rarely.
Manchon was extremely fond of Felix, who, by way of pleasing his mistress, had paid most assiduous court to her dog; yet now his caresses were rather troublesome.
They open like fairy tales, recounting in simple diction the histories of widows living in flowery cottages, with assiduous devoted little sons, who work in the garden and earn money to make up the rent.
They were both assiduous in their care of Louisa, but Leonora's want of exertion to overcome any disagreeable feelings of sensibility often deprived her of presence of mind, and prevented her from being so constantly useful as Cecilia.
I shall spare no pains to solve all doubts; and convey all the lights which, by my long and assiduous study of the subject, I may have acquired.
Sir Harry lives among his boroughs, but not so assiduous in his civilities as formerly; an instance of ingratitude which one would not expect in a man of such nice honour.
Lord Frederick, on his part, had never been so assiduous to entertain.
Lady Augusta seemed assiduousto entertain my admirer, who, lounging against a pillar with his eyes half shut, appeared only to study how he might answer her with the slightest possible exertion of mind or muscle.
There was no other way of accounting for his assiduous good offices; his flattering yet minute description of my appearance.
Shortly after darkness had fallen this assiduous caller returned, to make a fourth and more resolute attempt to call attention to his presence.
Soon after her husband was taken prisoner, Mrs. Wentworth observed that Horace Awtry became more assiduous in his attentions to her.
Harry kept an assiduous watch for an opportunity to speak with the sentinel.
There had been days when Harry had been perilously near the Great Adventure, but assiduous nursing and a splendid native constitution had in the end conquered.
Then, having wiped his beak on the hard sod, he dropped off the dike and resumed his assiduous quartering of the salt grass.
Reestablished in the Countess's favor since his duel, he had again become a frequenter of her house, so much the more assiduous as the increasing melancholy of Alba interested him greatly.
In the meantime she was assiduous in the care of the house plants, and read all she could find in regard to the species and varieties represented in the little flower-room.
No such deep thoughts and vague homage perplexed Burt as he assisted Amy with attentions that were assiduous and almost garrulous.
