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. ❋ Unknown (2008)
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. ❋ Unknown (2008)
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. ❋ Unknown (2003)
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. ❋ Unknown (2002)
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. ❋ 1616-1683 (1965)
There is nothing more operative than sedulity and diligence. ❋ William Alexander Clouston (1869)
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. ❋ Unknown (1857)
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. ❋ Giles, J. A. (1847)
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. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
Accordingly let there be but the same propensity and bent of will to religion, and there will be the same sedulity and indefatigable industry in men's inquiry into it. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)
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. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)
We read of the mystery of iniquity; and certainly the mystery of no trade can be attained without a long and a constant sedulity. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)
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. — ❋ Unknown (1813)
Yet, Lucy, we should all be pleased with the sedulity which we affect to ridicule. ❋ Unknown (1813)
How prolific was the invention of the falsehoods and absurdities of notion, and of the vanities and corruptions of practice, which it was devised to make the terms and names of religion designate and sanction! while it was also managed, with no less sedulity and success, that the inventors and propagators should be held in submissive reverence by the community, as the oracular depositaries of truth. ❋ John Foster (1806)
[Chrissy] is [the most] sedulous [person I] know. ❋ Ohsnapitsemilee (2008)
