Sedulous

And now a very strange argument ensues, me versus the Lebanese porter, because, I now understand, I am putting this guy, who barely speaks English, in a terrible kind of sedulous service double bind, a paradox of pampering: ❋ Unknown (2010)

James's executor was Alice James, the wife of Henry's older brother, the philosopher William James, and the woman who had nursed him with sedulous care through his last illness. ❋ Joseph Epstein (2012)

Our usual interjection again to a sedulous hosts, Messrs. Friedman, Madeira as good as Pope. ❋ Admin (2009)

Shortly after the success of the original novel Disney announced that a book series entitled Stories From East High would be published in February 2007 with a Hi, a harry is much less physic than this sedulous From. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It had been her care which provided me a companion in Clerval -- and yet a man is blind to a thousand minute circumstances, which call forth a woman's sedulous attention. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Is it true that some of the symptoms of Swine Flue are sedulous grunting, desire to lie in the mud, and the smell of bacon frying brings tears to ones eyes? ❋ Unknown (2009)

It can seem as if he is not a racing driver at all, but an actor, playing a role with sedulous care. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And a disciplined population, that rose at last by sedulous begging on birthdays and all convenient occasions to well over two hundred, of lead sailors and soldiers, horse, foot and artillery, inhabited this world. ❋ Adam Roberts (2010)

Vocabulary sedulous - diligent in application or pursuit ❋ Annette (2009)

As a part of my program of sedulous application, I began to haunt the Columbia University library, where I had been sent by a teacher to research an art history project. ❋ Megan McAndrew (2009)

With still deeper anxiety, he learned that a palanquin, watched with sedulous care by the slaves of Oriental jealousy, contained, it was whispered, a Feringi, or Frankish woman, beautiful as a Houri, who had been brought from England by the Begum, as a present to Tippoo. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Both were gay, fond of dancing, and sedulous attendants on the practeezings, as he called them, of Mr. McFittoch, a dancing master, who, itinerant during the summer, became stationary in the winter season, and afforded the youth of Middlemas the benefit of his instructions at the rate of twenty lessons for five shillings sterling. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I beg of you, if you think it worth while, to permit the reading of extracts from my ‘magic’ works, that Aemilianus may learn that my sedulous researches and inquiries have a wider range than he thinks. ❋ Apuleius (2008)

Or shall we believe that you, who have never so much as approached the room where they were placed, have seen what the freedman never saw, although he had every opportunity to inspect them during the sedulous performance of his duties? ❋ Apuleius (2008)

Notwithstanding the wild and singular expression of this female, she appeared to retain towards Roland Graeme, in a strong degree, that affectionate and sedulous love which women bear to their nurslings, and the children dependent on their care. ❋ Unknown (2008)

[Chrissy] is [the most] sedulous [person I] know. ❋ Ohsnapitsemilee (2008)