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  • Remold yourself conscientiously….†   (source)
  • The unsuspecting traveler fell into his part as conscientiously as he read his primer.†   (source)
  • Because he is a very conscientious student, Pudge has been deprived of many wonderful Culver Creek experiences, including but not limited to A. drinking wine with me in the woods, and B. getting up early on a Saturday to eat breakfast at Mclnedible and then driving through the greater Birmingham area smoking cigarettes and talking about how pathetically boring the greater Birmingham area is, and also C. going out late at night and lying in the dewy soccer field and reading a Kurt…†   (source)
  • Lori Andrews, director of the Institute for Science, Law and Technology at the Illinois Institute of Technology, wants something more drastic: she has called for people to get policymakers' attention by becoming "conscientious objectors in the DNA draft" and refusing to give tissue samples.†   (source)
  • Ang Dorje was bright, interested, keen to learn, and conscientious almost to a fault.†   (source)
  • It broke her heart to see her mother trying so hard, being so conscientious, so determined to be valuable.†   (source)
  • The women of the village take turns cooking for us, and some are cleaner and more conscientious than others.†   (source)
  • The bugs were out in force, and since Stewart had a conscientious objection to the bug light, he winced, as if;n pain himself, each time it claimed another victim.†   (source)
  • Here I stayed for one year doing good and conscientious work, for which I received plenty of gratitude but little or no money.†   (source)
  • She frowned, conscientiously worrying over what amusements he might secretly be longing for, which she had been too busy or too careless toimagine.†   (source)
  • His face, however, was pale and serious , very much the face of a conscientious student.†   (source)
  • She seemed like such a conscientious sort….†   (source)
  • The conscientious suntans.†   (source)
  • Others supervised the conscientious performance of the dances.†   (source)
  • And then suddenly there was a date, and the date was today, and Dunne family and friends were shaking off the October drizzle from umbrellas and carefully, conscientiously wiping their feet on the floor mat Maureen had brought for us this morning.†   (source)
  • He'd shown us a list of chores when we'd first arrived, and the students who were already there—"the veterans," as Hannah called them—had long since worked out a rota which we kept to conscientiously.†   (source)
  • He appreciated the sheriffs answer; it cast a favorable moral light on his witness and gave him the authority of the conscientious man, for which there was ultimately no substitute.†   (source)
  • She was an active church woman, did not drink, smoke, or carouse, defended herself mightily against Cholly, rose above him in every way, and felt she was fulfilling a mother's role conscientiously when she pointed out their father's faults to keep them from having them, or punished them when they showed any slovenliness, no matter how slight, when she worked twelve to sixteen hours a day to support them.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist might have no experience of evaluating criminal investigations, but he reckoned that Inspector Morell had been exceptionally conscientious.†   (source)
  • That he was a good man" An honest, conscientious man?†   (source)
  • Nancy and Kenyon had been conscientious members from the age of six.†   (source)
  • She was a haphazard housekeeper but a conscientious cook.†   (source)
  • The man, grieved by his own conscientiousness, rummaged in his leather bag and seized forth an iron contraption.†   (source)
  • The dentist, on the other hand, seemed most conscientious be would order us to open our mouths wide.†   (source)
  • Sound, unassuming, conscientious, a bit lacking in the rabbit sense of mischief, he was something of the born second-in-command.†   (source)
  • She tried conscientiously, to do and be exactly what Lydia Sessions seemed to want.†   (source)
  • No offense to Frank, but after the fiasco at Fort Sumter, Leo had become a conscientious objector to riding giant eagles.†   (source)
  • Conscientiousness.†   (source)
  • "My brothers went in as conscientious objectors," Harlon's girlfriend, Catherine Pierce, recalls.†   (source)
  • Those of us who are really conscientious and loyal—how will we ever get a chance to prove ourselves to this country?†   (source)
  • He was a very serious, very earnest and very conscientious dope.†   (source)
  • A professor at North Carolina med school told me that Kate McTiernan was one of the most conscientious students she'd taught in twenty years.†   (source)
  • When Cedric was still at home, she'd conscientiously report to him about any small bump up in her pay, or any added responsibility she'd assumed, wanting him to feel like she was on the move too, just like him.†   (source)
  • Mother was a conscientious housekeeper, but Mother had not been in the house for several days and dust had blown through the open windows.†   (source)
  • Onehorn blast from some conscientious citizen, whose idea of a desperate situation was probably a dirty Mercedes, and Tom was across.†   (source)
  • How can I convey to you how well he has kept his pledge to the Founder, how conscientious has been his stewardship?†   (source)
  • In his conscientious way, Bangs proceeded to investigate the darker side of city life that so worried his commander, embarking into the section called the Holy Ground, a foul slum and brothel district west of the Commons, much of which was owned by Trinity Church, hence the name.†   (source)
  • If our neighbours were as conscientious as ourselves, he had no doubt that their liquidations would far outnumber ours: unfortunately there were certain persons with elastic principles.†   (source)
  • My conscientious objection to most homework had put my grades in the toilet, but the only class I had outright flunked was precalc.†   (source)
  • Eddie Willers pulled his shoulders straight, in conscientious self-discipline.†   (source)
  • The prosecutor was Jim Rowland from third battalion, an extraordinarily bright and conscientious cadet who had been accepted at Harvard Law School.†   (source)
  • The imp had been savoring a cheroot, whose sweet smoke he conscientiously directed out the window.†   (source)
  • Conscientiously, Iona sprinkled flour over the next layer of sliced potatoes.†   (source)
  • Alessandro had begun to dream, but was pulled from his reverie by the insistent and conscientious action of the corner of his eye.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile Jeannie's Hugh, one of those thorough, conscientious types, reorganized the whole kitchen and scrubbed down every surface.†   (source)
  • Conscientious patriots understand the importance of deciding whether to adopt the new Constitution.†   (source)
  • Conscientious to a fault, thoughtful of others, and affectionate within reasonable bounds, he was the kind of father whose idealized image appears in many wistful books of human family reminiscences, but whose real prototype has seldom paced the earth upon two legs.†   (source)
  • A conscientious student: high marks in penmanship and history and geography.†   (source)
  • Out at the airport Oedipa, feeling invisible, eavesdropped on a poker game whose steady loser entered each loss neat and conscientious in a little balance-book decorated inside with scrawled post horns.†   (source)
  • For no clear reason a series of somber chords, struck in the middle of the symphony's andante movement, reminded her of the remarkable poem which had been read to her at the end of her last English class, a few days before, by the teacher, an ardent, fat, patient and conscientious young graduate student known to the class as Mr. Youngstein.†   (source)
  • Mississippi State College for Women, the oldest institution of its kind in America, poverty-stricken, enormously overcrowded, keeping within the tradition we were all used to in Mississippi, was conscientiously and, on the average, well taught by a dedicated faculty remaining and growing old there.†   (source)
  • He had conscientiously used the forbidden words—monsieur, madame; he had spread a tablecloth.†   (source)
  • " The constable's feelings were hurt because he was a conscientious man.†   (source)
  • --some spark of true religion, maybe, in a generally indifferent Catholic childhood; or perhaps it was simply a snatch at absolute control by a soul uncommonly conscientious but imperfectly informed on the ins and outs of time and space, struggling through a labyrinthine universe full of surprises.†   (source)
  • No. He is too serious, too conscientious-a technician, not an administrator.†   (source)
  • They were both equally repelled by what was tragically typical of modern man, his textbook admirations, his shrill enthusiasms, and the deadly dullness conscientiously preached and practiced by countless workers in the field of art and science in order that genius should remain a great rarity.†   (source)
  • I've never met anyone so conscientious.†   (source)
  • Like his brothers, he was hardworking and conscientious, but he had no love for it and in return it did not yield to him.†   (source)
  • It is thinking of that next campaign—the desire to be reelected—that provides the second pressure on the conscientious Senator.†   (source)
  • He set himself conscientiously to running through the mental routines intended to produce sleep.†   (source)
  • She added quickly, conscientiously determined to make her position clear at once, "I haven't even seen my employer yet."   (source)
    conscientiously = in a manner that is careful to do what is right
  • I took dinner usually at the Yale Club — for some reason it was the gloomiest event of my day — and then I went up-stairs to the library and studied investments and securities for a conscientious hour.   (source)
    conscientious = careful performance of duties
  • The other girl, Daisy, made an attempt to rise — she leaned slightly forward with a conscientious expression — then she laughed, an absurd, charming little laugh, and I laughed too and came forward into the room.   (source)
    conscientious = wanting to be proper
  • I conscientiously kept the watch wound and drew up a timetable by it.†   (source)
  • I didn't think being a conscientious objector would go over well at this point.†   (source)
  • Salander was a pleasant and conscientious young woman.†   (source)
  • I played my part conscientiously and opened my mind to its most sensitive.†   (source)
  • He told all this to Janet, conscientiously.†   (source)
  • They're being described as a 'conscientious couple.'†   (source)
  • He was a conscientious person who evidenced a deep commitment to his wards.†   (source)
  • This was academic, for the devout Nasserine and Mammal were conscientious too.†   (source)
  • The cold was conscientiously doing its work.†   (source)
  • I'm so cautious and conscientious that I feel entirely free to die.†   (source)
  • Now you see, that's the cruelty of conscientious people.†   (source)
  • To his credit, Pickering was energetic and conscientious.†   (source)
  • They seem to have been a conscientious pair.†   (source)
  • The stocky, elderly man was obviously a businessman of the conscientious, unspectacular kind.†   (source)
  • He was looking at his companion, trying hard-conscientiously, helplessly, hopelessly-to understand.†   (source)
  • I was reading her lips, the conscientious way people do through train windows.†   (source)
  • Of course," he added conscientiously, "It'd be for this year only."†   (source)
  • He was, after all, "an Adams …. cold, tactless and rigidly conscientious."†   (source)
  • He knows it and works hard at it and is conscientious.†   (source)
  • There was no reason he couldn't have several of them at once, as long as he was conscientious about his scheduling.†   (source)
  • She did this once or twice a week with the quiet and conscientious air of someone who does not want credit for saving lives.†   (source)
  • The very object of our jury system is to secure a verdict by comparison of views and discussion among jurors—provided this can be done reasonably and in a way consistent with the conscientious convictions of each.†   (source)
  • Thirty-six years old, an aerospace engineer by training, he was a quiet, thoughtful, extremely conscientious guide who was well liked by most members of his team and Hall's.†   (source)
  • There are limits to what even the most rigorously scientific breeding program can accomplish—based not only on the foundation stock and the limits of precision we have for measuring the dogs, but on limits that come from within us—limits, in other words, of our own imagination, and of ourselves as conscientious human beings.†   (source)
  • John Root was so self-indulgent that there was a risk he might never draw upon his underlying power; Adler was essentially a technician, an engineer, a conscientious administrator….†   (source)
  • Just conscientiousness.†   (source)
  • She cared for the family's health during this dangerous epidemic as best she could, and she would not let us through the hall and on into the flat until she had conscientiously removed the lice from our hats, coats and suits with the pincers and drowned them in spirits.†   (source)
  • Her more sheltered, bookish upbringing notwithstanding, she was to prove every bit as hardworking as he and no less conscientious about whatever she undertook.†   (source)
  • When the tar started evaporating and smoking up, she shook out the match and put the foil straw in her mouth and trailed the curling smoke, sucking it up and holding it in her lungs, conscientiously.†   (source)
  • You're so conscientious,' he said, his voice muffled by my sweater, which he was still trying to ease off.†   (source)
  • "In other words, you're telling me that your son, the conscientious doctor, went through all this, too, so I shouldn't lose hope?"†   (source)
  • Conscientious and a teetotaller.†   (source)
  • "That's very conscientious of you."†   (source)
  • It seems that all the people who are conscientious enough to report when they have to, law-abiding enough not to kick about their treatment—these are the ones who go first.†   (source)
  • During the Vietnam War, he was a conscientious objector, and there is still something of the '60s hippie about him, like the Mao cap he sometimes wears over his braided yarmulke.†   (source)
  • They never faltered in their support of their country, but they served in the medical corps as conscientious objectors.†   (source)
  • There were billions of conscientious body cells oxidating away day and night like dumb animals at their complicated job of keeping him alive and healthy, and every one was a potential traitor and foe.†   (source)
  • As for Lydia herself, the last week had brought that thin face of hers to look all of its thirty odd years; and the smile which she turned upon her affianced was the product of conscientious effort.†   (source)
  • I'd been watching Captain Bugloss and he struck me as a nice enough fellow, conscientious and a bit weak and rather harassed by having more to do than he could really cope with.†   (source)
  • The house was still mainly framework although Bud had been working for many months in a conscientious struggle that Richard thought had less to do with gutting and reshaping a house than destroying some dread specter, maybe Bud's old drug habit, once and for all.†   (source)
  • They were more accurate at measuring conscientiousness, and they were much more accurate at predicting both the students' emotional stability and their openness to new experiences.†   (source)
  • As for helping you—I dislike lobster, and yet I conscientiously provide you with it whenever we are where the comestible is served, because I know you like it.†   (source)
  • They were a conscientious couple.†   (source)
  • …a rolled-up magazine, a man of some girth but quick on his feet, dipping and gliding, addressing the major mess at 86th Street, a man who shrugged off beeping horns and did a hundred semaphores, extravagant of gesture, in a topcoat with a velvet collar, his glossy baton flashing and people pausing to watch, and there was a great and fervent feeling that attended his performance, which was conscientious and deft however befrilled by theater, and it spread among the people in the street.†   (source)
  • He looked at Taggart with the lifelessly conscientious glance of a scholar confronted by a field of knowledge he had never wanted to study.†   (source)
  • Palmgren had conscientiously submitted a report each year to the agency, and Bjurman supposed Salander had probably not known that Palmgren also made meticulous notes for himself.†   (source)
  • Except the tons were not unnumbered but conscientiously counted because this is how we earn our stripes, by quantifying the product.†   (source)
  • I just don't have the stomach-unless you want me to," he added, with a conscientious effort at discipline, "No, you don't have to.†   (source)
  • The night dispatcher was a conscientious young boy who trusted his superiors and knew that discipline was the first rule of the railroad business.†   (source)
  • Mr. Ward represented the fourth generation of a family that had owned the plant and had given it the conscientious best of such ability as they possessed.†   (source)
  • With the conscientious precision of a railroad man, in the moment when the hand of the clock ended the half-hour, he signed his name to the order instructing the Comet to proceed with Engine Number 306, and transmitted the order to Winston Station.†   (source)
  • But she could not raise her arms; leaning on a cane with one hand and on Galt's arm with the other, moving her feet by a slow, conscientious effort, she walked down to the car like a child learning to walk for the first time.†   (source)
  • He started to go, but stopped, turned to her and asked, his voice low, but steady, neither as plea nor as despair, but as a last gesture of conscientious clarity to close a long ledger, "Dagny …. did you know …. how I felt about you?"†   (source)
  • He was reciting it in full earnestness, with the honesty of a conscientious student: "I know that everything is relative and that nobody can know anything and that reason is an illusion and that there isn't any reality.†   (source)
  • The face of the machine seemed to have more expression than the face of the mechanic in charge of it; he was a husky young man in a sweat-stained shirt with sleeves rolled above the elbows; his pale blue eyes were glazed by an enormously conscientious concentration on his task; he moved his lips once in a while, as if reciting a memorized lesson.†   (source)
  • She looked out of the rear window: the track went off in a straight line and, at the prescribed distance, she saw the red lanterns left on the ground, placed conscientiously to protect the rear of the train.†   (source)
  • …the men that would now fail to appear at their posts on some coming morning and would silently vanish in search of unknown frontiers-the men whose faces were tighter than the faces around them, whose eyes were more direct, whose energy was more conscientiously enduring-the men who were now slipping away, one by one, from every corner of the countryof the country which was now like the descendant of what had once been regal glory, prostrated by the scourge of hemophilia, losing the best…†   (source)
  • He had never had to work so hard; he had done his job as conscientiously well as he had always done any assignment; but it was as if he had worked in a vacuum, as if his energy had found no transmitters and had run into the sands of …. of some such desert as the one beyond the window of the Comet.†   (source)
  • Justice is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake the character of men as you cannot fake the character of nature, that you must judge all men as conscientiously as you judge inanimate objects, with the same respect for truth, with the same incorruptible vision, by as pure and as rational a process of identification-that every man must be judged for what he is and treated accordingly, that just as you do not pay a higher price for a rusty chunk of scrap than for a piece of…†   (source)
  • She was so conscientious that Samson found things had worsened rather than improved: even his understood one-third allowance had gone, and she wore the store keys tied to her belt.†   (source)
  • Mary nursed him like a baby for a week, conscientiously, but with impatience because of his fear for himself.†   (source)
  • In love songs as in the rest, the artist himself remained remote, as a conscientious black cloud from a summer day.†   (source)
  • Edmund Ross, more than any of those six colleagues, endured more before and after his vote, reached his conscientious decision with greater difficulty, and aroused the greatest interest and suspense prior to May 16 by his noncommittal silence.†   (source)
  • On that fine morning there was no one in the Third Naval Member's office save for one Wran writer, prim, and spectacled and conscientious.†   (source)
  • The third and most significant source of pressures which discourage political courage in the conscientious Senator or Congressman—and practically all of the problems described in this chapter apply equally to members of both Houses—is the pressure of his constituency, the interest groups, the organized letter writers, the economic blocs and even the average voter.†   (source)
  • Realizing that the path of the conscientious insurgent must frequently be a lonely one, we are anxious to get along with our fellow legislators, our fellow members of the club, to abide by the clubhouse rules and patterns, not to pursue a unique and independent course which would embarrass or irritate the other members.†   (source)
  • The true democracy, living and growing and inspiring, puts its faith in the people—faith that the people will not simply elect men who will represent their views ably and faithfully, but also elect men who will exercise their conscientious judgment—faith that the people will not condemn those whose devotion to principle leads them to unpopular courses, but will reward courage, respect honor and ultimately recognize right.†   (source)
  • Then it will be for them to determine if adherence to my honest convictions has disqualified me from representing them; whether a difference of opinion upon a difficult and complicated subject to which I have given patient, long-continued, conscientious study, to which I have brought entire honesty and singleness of purpose, and upon which I have spent whatever ability God has given me, is now to separate us; …. but be their present decision what itmay, I know that the time is not far…†   (source)
  • It was because Daniel Webster conscientiously favored compromise in 1850 that he earned a condemnation unsurpassed in the annals of political history.†   (source)
  • Only one course was conscientiously open to him—he resigned his seat in the Senate in order to defend the policies of the man who had driven his father from the Presidency.†   (source)
  • Must men conscientiously risk their careers only for principles which hindsight declares to be correct, in order for posterity to honor them for their valor?†   (source)
  • The fanatics and extremists and even those conscientiously devoted to hard and fast principles are always disappointed at the failure of their Government to rush to implement all of their principles and to denounce those of their opponents.†   (source)
  • And, finally, I am convinced that we have criticized those who have followed the crowd—and at the same time criticized those who have defied it—because we have not fully understood the responsibility of a Senator to his constituents or recognized the difficulty facing a politician conscientiously desiring, in Webster's words, "to push [his] skiff from the shore alone" into a hostile and turbulent sea.†   (source)
  • George Norris called the President's scathing indictment a grave injustice to men who conscientiously tried to do their duty as they saw it; but, except for the unfortunate and unhelpful praise bestowed upon them by the German press, "the epithets heaped upon these men were without precedent in the annals of American journalism.†   (source)
  • I forgot for the moment all the rules I had conscientiously learned and simply floated along.†   (source)
  • During the first part of September Rambert had worked conscientiously at Rieux's side.†   (source)
  • I could not conscientiously open a knee like that before the projectile was encysted.†   (source)
  • Conscientious objection on an enormous scale.†   (source)
  • They should be exempted like conscientious objectors.†   (source)
  • But conscientious objectors weren't exempted in this war.†   (source)
  • Now, clumsily, he moved off on a conscientious left foot, counting to himself.†   (source)
  • No one plies his trade with less of decency and conscientious care.†   (source)
  • Hearing his mother open the lunch pail and then gasp with rage, a memory stabbed him and he trotted away toward the barn, conscientiously not hearing the angry voice that called him from the house.†   (source)
  • "Oh, very conscientious, I'm sure.†   (source)
  • He was a kind, conscientious, peace-loving fellow, who had been afflicted in his youth by a tutor of genius.†   (source)
  • He studied conscientiously and hard.†   (source)
  • …page was headed quite simply, WOMEN AND POVERTY, in block letters; but what followed was something like this: Condition in Middle Ages of, Habits in the Fiji Islands of, Worshipped as goddesses by, Weaker in moral sense than, Idealism of, Greater conscientiousness of, South Sea Islanders, age of puberty among, Attractiveness of, Offered as sacrifice to, Small size of brain of, Profounder sub-consciousness of, Less hair on the body of, Mental, moral and physical inferiority of, Love of…†   (source)
  • He said Jose you are a good conscientious workman and I don't mind if you make a mistake once in a while.†   (source)
  • It saved trouble to let it be so assumed, especially in India, and Conway was a conscientious trouble-saver.†   (source)
  • The war in which he had served so conscientiously had wrecked his health, cost him his fortune and made him an old man.†   (source)
  • It wasn't his fault that an accident now made the deal possible and not his own conscientious efforts.†   (source)
  • If your patient can be induced to become a conscientious objector he will automatically find himself one of a small, vocal, organised, unpopular society, and the effects of this, on one so new to Christianity, will almost certainly be good.†   (source)
  • He wrote conscientiously each item of his distinctions; his name found its way back more than once to the indulgent Altamont papers.†   (source)
  • Father Kleinsorge lay down and said the Lord's Prayer and a Hail Mary to himself, and fell right asleep; but no sooner had he dropped off than Mrs Murata, the conscientious mission housekeeper, shook him and said, 'Father Kleinsorge: Did you remember to repeat your evening prayers?'†   (source)
  • …of horsemen rode up and sat their horses quietly and watched, and the architect in his formal coat and his Paris hat and his expression of grim and embittered amazement lurked about the environs of the scene with his air something between a casual and bitterly disinterested spectator and a condemned and conscientious ghost—amazement, General Compson said, not at the others and what they were doing so much as at himself, at the inexplicable and incredible fact of his own presence.†   (source)
  • No report about Young had come from the Communist party, but since Young seemed a conscientious worker, I did not think the omission serious in any case.†   (source)
  • What he had read there was that I was an excellent young fellow, a steady, conscientious worker who did his best by his employer; that I was popular with everyone and sympathetic in others' troubles.†   (source)
  • Instead of which, a few streams dribbled through to fill reservoirs and irrigate fields and plantations with a disciplined conscientiousness worthy of a sanitary engineer.†   (source)
  • Arthur was off to read the pleas for the morrow, a practice which he followed like a conscientious man.†   (source)
  • Cass set down a very conscientious description of every feature and proportion, a kind of tortured inventory, as though in the midst of the "darkness and trouble," at the very moment of his agony and repudiation, he had to take one last backward look even at the risk of being turned into the pillar of salt.†   (source)
  • They alone were deaf to that persistent voice, now grumbling, now patronizing, now domineering, now grieved, now shocked, now angry, now avuncular, that voice which cannot let women alone, but must be at them, like some too-conscientious governess, adjuring them, like Sir Egerton Brydges, to be refined; dragging even into the criticism of poetry criticism of sex; [*1] admonishing them, if they would be good and win, as I suppose, some shiny prize, to keep within certain limits which…†   (source)
  • A policeman went up and dealt him two hard blows with his fists, quite calmly, with a sort of conscientious thoroughness.†   (source)
  • But he was a quiet, conscientious, unimaginative man, and an early marriage had ended all his ambition.†   (source)
  • …subscription list of the county newspaper poems, ode eulogy and epitaph, out of some bitter and implacable reserve of undefeat; and these from a woman whose family's martial background as both town and county knew consisted of the father who, a conscientious objector on religious grounds, had starved to death in the attic of his own house, hidden (some said, walled up) there from Confederate provost marshals' men and fed secretly at night by this same daughter who at the very time was…†   (source)
  • Summoned to give evidence regarding what was a sort of crime, he has exercised the restraint that behooves a conscientious witness.†   (source)
  • Then he began to dictate: "Dear Governor Stark,—because of ill health—which renders it difficult for me to attend conscientiously—"†   (source)
  • "We have always endeavored to give our readers the truth without fear or prejudice… "…charitable consideration and the benefit of the doubt even to a man charged with an outrageous crime… "…but after conscientious investigation and in the light of new evidence placed before us, we find ourselves obliged honestly to admit that we might have been too lenient… "…A society awakened to a new sense of responsibility toward the underprivileged…"…We join the voice of public opinion…"…The past,…†   (source)
  • I trotted obediently around with her, colliding with chairs, hearing her directions and failing to understand them, treading on her toes, and being as clumsy as I was conscientious.†   (source)
  • Keating thought, with wistful bitterness, of how conscientiously they had worked, he and the seven other architects, designing those buildings.†   (source)
  • Then he began to dictate: "Dear Governor Stark,—because of ill health—which renders it difficult for me to attend conscientiously—" The Boss interrupted himself, saying, "Be sure you put that conscientiously in now, you wouldn't want to leave that out," and then continued in the business voice—"to the duties of my position as Auditor—I wish to offer my resignation—to take effect as soon after the above date—as you can relieve me."†   (source)
  • He might have been failing to do it well, but he most certainly was doing it conscientiously.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Peniston, who was a conscientious woman, had forwarded them all to Bellomont.†   (source)
  • I fear I could not conscientiously do so.†   (source)
  • I am not sure that as a conscientious detective my first duty is not to arrest the whole household.†   (source)
  • Well, let's go to the office, and I'll begin to do things conscientiously and all wrong.†   (source)
  • That would be enough, that and a conscientious desire to keep our money on the Continent.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Grose appeared to try to be conscientious.†   (source)
  • "Blue or black, did ye know him?" said I. "I couldnae just conscientiously swear to him," says Alan.†   (source)
  • Madeline had been a conscientious student of ranching and an apt pupil of Stillwell.†   (source)
  • Dr. Calibree was a squat, clean-shaven, conscientious-looking man of forty.†   (source)
  • She has conscientiously struggled against it, but to no purpose.†   (source)
  • But tho' a conscientious disciplinarian, he was no lover of authority for mere authority's sake.†   (source)
  • The little man laughed mirthlessly but conscientiously.†   (source)
  • But she was the best and most conscientious of stepmothers, and back I had to go to my room.†   (source)
  • The lama would give him no help, but, as a conscientious chela, Kim was delighted to beg for two.†   (source)
  • She is conscientious, and I have no fear of her treating him unkindly.†   (source)
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