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  • who was clever, who was diligent, who was loyal.   (source)
    diligent = a hard and careful worker
  • Weeding was done by hand, diligently and unceasingly, because the seedlings could easily be choked by other plant life.   (source)
    diligently = with hard work and care
  • Whether it was a matter of law or presentation, he was diligent in his study, and it had won him a few cases early in his career when he should have lost.   (source)
    diligent = worked hard and carefully
  • I'm currently going through a dance and ballet craze and am diligently practicing my dance steps every evening.   (source)
    diligently = carefully and persistently
  • Now I dream of ... the smell of soil crumbling between my fingers, and the brilliant green of plants that I diligently nurture.   (source)
    diligently = with hard work and care
  • Maraa Isabel is misspending the hard-earned money, $100 to $150 a month, that Enrique diligently sends his daughter.   (source)
  • All of us were giving diligent attention to our powdered potatoes.   (source)
    diligent = careful and thorough
  • I didn't want her turned, against both her will and nature, into one of those diligent, sad women who are bent on a lifelong course of quiet servitude, forever in fear of showing, saying, or doing the wrong thing.   (source)
    diligent = hard working and careful
  • Chacko studied his treatise on "The Peaceful Transition to Communism" with an adolescent's obsessive diligence and an ardent fan's unquestioning approval.   (source)
    diligence = hard work and care
  • I was quite prepared to forgive the couple, however, for it was clear they were of diligent hard-working habits, and the noise, I am sure, was all attributable to this fact.   (source)
  • Nathaniel sweeps the sidewalk with maniacal diligence, flicking dead cockroaches and cigarette butts into the gutter to clear a space for his bedding.   (source)
  • ...everything was kept free of dust by a diligent hand.   (source)
    diligent = careful and persistent
  • In class, the Professor of Philosophy, noting Phaedrus' apparent good behavior and diligence, has decided he may not be such a bad student after all.   (source)
    diligence = hard work and care
  • This state of affairs rewarded people's diligence, imagination, and ingenuity.   (source)
    diligence = hard work and care in tasks
  • I resolve to be diligent with my tasks and not fall asleep when I say my prayers.   (source)
    diligent = work hard with care
  • Here and there boys with hoes smoothed out little patches of roadway, making shows of their diligence, then lifting their hands in the hope of reward.   (source)
    diligence = hard work and care
  • Martin Vanger appeared diligent in his capacity as CEO of the Vanger Corporation.   (source)
    diligent = hard working and careful
  • Sam stared up at Lacy, diligently trying to fit his fist in his mouth.   (source)
    diligently = with hard work and care
  • I applied myself more diligently than ever to my tasks as the head of my own household.   (source)
  • Taking a deep breath, I wipe that thought from my mind and write diligently until Mrs. Peterson instructs us to stop and listen to each other's introductions.   (source)
  • In the sixties, Vic thought, she would have been in a commune, diligently picking bugs off tomato plants.   (source)
  • It was how she had often dealt with violations of the sense of control and order she worked diligently to create around herself.   (source)
  • He could have afforded another bus ticket but that would have bitten into the rent money he had so diligently saved on the advice of many a veteran immigrant.   (source)
    diligently = carefully
  • ...he was actually going about his task with more energy and diligence than I had expected.   (source)
    diligence = hard work and care
  • Ellaha found work with an American construction company and quickly impressed the managers with her intelligence and diligence.   (source)
  • Slice-and-bake dough, a brand-new oven, and spotless Teflon cookie sheets, and no matter how hard I tried, how diligently I watched them, I burned every single batch.   (source)
    diligently = with hard work and care
  • ...I knew, the quiet Victor who studied diligently or smiled shyly at Diane...   (source)
  • So, if it's not too personal, may I ask what you're working so diligently on?   (source)
  • men of different trades worked diligently, repairing roof rafters, shoring up timbers, chipping away the deteriorated masonry, and cleaning the twisted metal and concrete debris.   (source)
  • You needed your luck, and whatever benefits accrued to the diligent, through sheer, grinding hard work.   (source)
    diligent = hard working
  • Richter then awarded Macon's Quill to ..., while the Giving Belt went to a student known for her diligence in the Sanctuary.   (source)
    diligence = hard work and care
  • we assume that they're pre-sighting the gun ports so that they can move the cannon up at night, and we respond with the same great diligence.   (source)
  • ...they were all diligently throwing snowballs ... in such perfect time with the music...   (source)
    diligently = working hard and carefully at
  • Nothing to wrap it with. He tore off a bit of his shirt, was working away diligently, saw Tom coming.   (source)
    diligently = with hard work and care
  • and then for courtesy's sake reverting to English to show respect for his host's diligence in learning it.   (source)
    diligence = hard work
  • Since we so diligently urge people to obey the Supreme Court's decision of 1954 outlawing segregation in the public schools, ...   (source)
    diligently = with hard work and care
  • The third week, however, what could happen even to the cleverest, most diligent, most upright of scholars ... happened to him.   (source)
    diligent = hard working
  • I have looked diligently for all aspects of "inferiority" among them and I cannot find them.   (source)
    diligently = with great care
  • We would choose some article almost certain not to exist there and then diligently try to find it.   (source)
    diligently = with hard work and care
  • He performed this task well, and there is no reason to suppose that at that time he was other than a diligent member of his Department.   (source)
    diligent = hard working
  • They worked diligently hardly raising their faces from the ground,   (source)
    diligently = with hard work and care
  • where Ellen had labored so diligently   (source)
    diligently = carefully and persistently
  • They felt that it was much easier and safer to rob their own people, for they knew that white policemen never really searched diligently for Negroes who committed crimes against other Negroes.   (source)
    diligently = with hard work and care
  • I guess we're all huntin' like everybody else for a way the diligent and sensible can rise to the top and the lazy and quarrelsome sink to the bottom.   (source)
    diligent = hard workers
  • with affection, diligence, and an extraordinarily heavy humor he devoted himself to the work...   (source)
    diligence = hard work and care
  • Miss Stacy says you are bright and diligent.   (source)
    diligent = hard-working and careful to get things right
  • All his industry and diligence thrown away!   (source)
    diligence = hard work and care
  • and on the river was a boat, also diligently employed for some mysterious end.   (source)
    diligently = conscientiously (with care and hard work)
  • You have been reading the papers diligently of late, have you not?   (source)
    diligently = carefully each day
  • Diligence and attention soon gave him the knack of it,   (source)
    diligence = hard work and care
  • As long as "The Spread Eagle" paid her a dollar a column for her "rubbish", as she called it, Jo felt herself a woman of means, and spun her little romances diligently.   (source)
    diligently = with hard work and care
  • Then the Professor took the book and the parchment, and diligently compared them together.   (source)
    diligently = carefully
  • Dorothea, instead of settling down with her usual diligent interest to some occupation, simply leaned her elbow on an open book and looked out of the window...   (source)
    diligent = hard work and care
  • they set to work very diligently to write out a history of the accident,   (source)
    diligently = with hard work and care
  • he diligently followed all that went on   (source)
    diligently = carefully
  • The sense of smell, that mysterious aid to memory, had just revived a whole world within him.  ...one of the two scents which he had so diligently sought ... had come and presented itself to him of its own accord.   (source)
    diligently = with hard work and care
  • Hands go diligently along the bulwarks, and with buckets of water and rags restore them to their full tidiness.   (source)
  • I would sit by her side for hours, sewing diligently,   (source)
  • And yet it appears, in spite of all your diligence, you have arrived too late.   (source)
    diligence = hard work and care
  • let us search diligently, but as quietly as possible.   (source)
    diligently = with hard work and care
  • I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without...   (source)
    diligence = hard work and care
  • That which to him was a great evil, to be carefully shunned, was to me a great good, to be diligently sought;   (source)
    diligently = with hard work and care
  • It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the herd so diligently follow.   (source)
    diligently = carefully
  • The results attained by them are not unfrequently surprising, but, for the most part, are brought about by simple diligence and activity.   (source)
    diligence = hard work and care
  • Emmeline had been educated much more intelligently,--taught to read and write, and diligently instructed in the Bible, by the care of a faithful and pious mistress;   (source)
    diligently = carefully (with hard work and care)
  • Under the guidance of my new preceptors I entered with the greatest diligence into the search of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life; but the latter soon obtained my undivided attention.   (source)
    diligence = hard work and care
  • The stories ... were called to mind; and when they had diligently considered them all ... they ... came to the conclusion   (source)
    diligently = carefully
  • I attended the business diligently, studied accounts, and grew, in a little time, expert at selling.   (source)
    diligently = with hard work and care
  • as princes cannot help being hated by someone ... they ought to endeavour with the utmost diligence to avoid the hatred of the most powerful.   (source)
    diligence = hard work and care
  • He says the children weren't always the most diligent employees and admits he more often threw dirt clods at his friends than he picked potatoes.†   (source)
  • It was a case of sauve qui peut, an expression which, due to Mr. Erskine's diligence, I could now translate.†   (source)
  • Tony and Vince were waiting for us, diligently digging out the snow from behind the door.†   (source)
  • Yes, Alexander, it behooves us to study this phenomenon with the utmost diligence and care.†   (source)
  • Sometimes you saw it in the subtlest of ways: the old neighbor who diligently tended her garden even as her neighbors let their homes rot from the inside out; the young woman who grew up with my mom, who returned to the neighborhood every day to help her mother navigate old age.†   (source)
  • Behind the large reception desk are several rows of small desks with young women all working diligently—filing, transcribing.†   (source)
  • Now, it looked as if my foresight and diligence were about to pay off.†   (source)
  • Matt and Mike translated this to keep the door closed, and became quite diligent about doing just that.†   (source)
  • With diligence, with months—even years—backstage in the Gravesend Town Hall, I knew I could find the face my mother had waved to in the stands.†   (source)
  • Wood, glue, nails, sandpaper: rather than comforting her, the noises and smells of his manic diligence make her more anxious.†   (source)
  • Mace diligently emptied the straw from the sacks and dismantled his table.†   (source)
  • He was known as a diligent worker, and his skill and leadership qualities were plain to all his subordinates.†   (source)
  • She works diligently, healing over the other bruises on my face.†   (source)
  • It was difficult not being with Sam and Rameck every day, but he loved his classes; and for the first time, he really worked diligently to study and master the material.†   (source)
  • Kit kept her word to Mr. Kimberley and threw herself so diligently into the school work that the children were bewildered.†   (source)
  • Now, I need to go back to the palace tomorrow morning and take a look at the prince's android tomorrow afternoon, but if we're diligent, I think I could have it fixed in a couple weeks, maybe less.†   (source)
  • "What do those words mean, 'assiduous' and 'diligent'?"†   (source)
  • And the more time I spent with Hobie—with his crippled Hepplewhites and Chippendales, the old things he took such diligent care of— the more I felt it was wrong to keep silent.†   (source)
  • For her creativity, diligence, and patience, no expression of thanks could be adequate.†   (source)
  • "I'm sorry we're not here under better circumstances, but with Lady America home, we're going to have to be quite diligent about security," he said, a ring of authority in his voice.†   (source)
  • We felt an odd affection for them and a sense of relief that they were being looked after in a diligent and professional manner.†   (source)
  • As was tradition, their mother worked diligently in the kitchen, rejoicing in the holiday custom of cooking for her two children.†   (source)
  • But my diligence gained me nothing.†   (source)
  • Here in Missouri, the women shop at Target, they make diligent, comforting meals, they laugh about how little high school Spanish they remember.†   (source)
  • I ordered myself back into my chair and searched diligently through my pockets for nothing whatsoever while he finished checking out.†   (source)
  • I developed the reputation of having a fine memory, but in fact, I was simply a diligent worker.†   (source)
  • Each one tried to outdo the other, and they worked so hard and diligently at it that before long their cities rivaled even Wisdom in size and grandeur.†   (source)
  • After eighteen months of hard work and diligent training, Marko and his Vilnius Academy were ready to play their game of fox and hounds.†   (source)
  • She's diligently trying to add sepia shadows to her painting now, and it's making her fruit look bruised and ugly.†   (source)
  • From eight feet up on the wall, Heath diligently watched the woman's trigger finger as she continued to brandish the weapon.†   (source)
  • Your diligent work for the past six months has paid off.†   (source)
  • Harlon Block's tour at the advanced training camps was a period of inwardness for the hearty Texas athlete: diligent training and quiet contemplation.†   (source)
  • Drew keeps me attached to his side more diligently than usual.†   (source)
  • Although," he added, "in point of fact, I was a rather less than diligent student."†   (source)
  • One day, when some diligent FBI agent came by with a drawing or photograph, he wanted this chirpy little squirrel to think back and recall this moment in a close and chilling way.†   (source)
  • Major Major forged diligently with his left hand to elude identification, insulated against intrusion by his own undesired authority and camouflaged in his false mustache and dark glasses as an additional safeguard against detection by anyone chancing to peer in through the dowdy celluloid window from which some thief had carved out a slice.†   (source)
  • I foolishly believed that if I was diligent, I would inspire Beautiful Moon to be diligent too.†   (source)
  • He admired the reverend and labored diligently each Sunday to appear entranced by his homilies, but often it was impossible.†   (source)
  • As a politician in the years since, he had performed diligently, earning a high reputation as an administrator.†   (source)
  • Among the many books and individuals I have consulted for help, I would like especially to thank Amy Huberman for her diligent unearthing of seventeenth-century medical texts; Anne Ashley McCaig for advice on lambing and literature; Raymond Rush, for the fascinating farming lore in his Countrywise collection of articles.†   (source)
  • Her wrists were taped to the arms of the chair in such a fashion as to allow her to wrench loose if she applied herself diligently.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the prince was only saying that to encourage your brother to be more diligent.†   (source)
  • You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.†   (source)
  • But he spent hours on the firing range back in his Marine Corps days, and these last few weeks, he has been diligently working on his shot down in the dry bed of the Trinity River, using the levee walls as a backstop.†   (source)
  • The same two diligent dogs sniff at the base below me before running to catch up with the rest of the pack.†   (source)
  • The Mexicans, it seems to me, are a very diligent people, crushed by their primitive economy.†   (source)
  • He'd once been very popular, but his demanding ways were proving too much for many, even for some of the pliable fools who followed him diligently.†   (source)
  • Every night Jane diligently hand-washed her heavy wool socks in Woolite along with her bra and underpants and hung them on her wooden clothes dryer.†   (source)
  • Slowly, as the year progressed, they discovered what our severest weak points were, and they profited by their diligent attention.†   (source)
  • Like most things, war is a science that is perfected by diligence, perseverance, time, and practice.†   (source)
  • The men found Guenhwyvar diligently on watch when they came out of the chimney.†   (source)
  • It was my right as a defense attorney, and I was always diligent about doing it, but the meeting loomed like a dentist's appointment for a root canal.†   (source)
  • They depended on it for their living and were diligent in warning off what they considered intruders.†   (source)
  • He'd been diligently trying to stop sucking his thumb, yet with all that was happening he was finding it tough going.†   (source)
  • Again, he kept diligently to the speed limit while other traffic overtook him.†   (source)
  • I did my duty, but although I had searched diligently for evidence which would please my superiors, I had so far found none.†   (source)
  • The diligent students would do well to begin tonight memorizing his book on colds and fevers.†   (source)
  • Serge, on close questioning, admitted the bit about the eight-year-old was so far only imaginary, but that he was hanging diligently around playgrounds and should have some news for them any day.†   (source)
  • What still amazes is the handwriting: not the placid, diligently legible schoolboy script I habitually used, but a savage scurrying scrawl indicating the breakneck speed of distraught emotions.†   (source)
  • A man who, by his very diligence, has begun to set people around him to talking and fretting against him, people who might, potentially … Hypothetical, of course.†   (source)
  • I am determined this week to be more diligent.†   (source)
  • May we be ever unswerving in devotion to principle, confident but humble with power, diligent in pursuit of the Nation's great goals.†   (source)
  • Yet he could not help but contrast the diligence of the boy, who was a peddler's son, with Miriam's unconcern for an education.†   (source)
  • Here, love, thou seest how diligent I am,   (source)
  • It [The Parable of the Talents] was told to illustrate the Kingdom of Heaven, and that diligence in carrying out our responsibilities is essential for more important tasks in the future.   (source)
  • The result of all this diligence was an enormous book,   (source)
    diligence = hard work and care in tasks
  • You remember that in the Bible about--about being diligent in the Lord's business, or something?   (source)
    diligent = hard work and care
  • Olivier, write with diligence to M. the Marshal de Rouault:   (source)
    diligence = care (carefully)
  • For with all his tireless diligence he had discovered no sign or trace of the...   (source)
    diligence = hard work and care
  • he still guarded his pass with unwearied diligence.   (source)
  • But three weeks had already passed, and the most diligent search had been unsuccessful;   (source)
    diligent = hard-working
  • I have found him in every way so diligent, so grateful (for little enough), and so trustworthy...   (source)
    diligent = hard-working and careful
  • She was diligent at Red Cross work.   (source)
    diligent = hard work and care
  • I will keep this diligently in my remembrance, that this day's lesson be not lost upon me, and my people suffer thereby;   (source)
    diligently = carefully and persistently
  • If you have ever seen an active, heedless, enterprising child going diligently out of one mischief and into another all day long, and an anxious mother at its heels all the while, and just saving it by a hair from drowning itself or breaking its neck with each new experiment, you've seen the king and me.   (source)
    diligently = tirelessly (without stopping to rest)
  • Such strange lingering echoes of the old demon-worship might perhaps even now be caught by the diligent listener   (source)
    diligent = careful and persistent
  • He was punctual and diligent;   (source)
    diligent = characterized by hard work and care
  • Alice had seated herself on the bank of a little brook, with the great dish on her knees, and was sawing away diligently with the knife.   (source)
    diligently = with hard work and care
  • Instantly it occurred to me, that his unexampled diligence in copying by his dim window for the first few weeks of his stay with me might have temporarily impaired his vision.   (source)
    diligence = hard work and care
  • I began to study them with diligence.   (source)
    diligence = care (carefully)
  • the unwearied diligence with which she had every day wished for the same thing was at length to have its just reward   (source)
    diligence = hard work and care
  • All who were obedient and diligent might go there some day.†   (source)
  • I'll be more diligent and log every day.†   (source)
  • But the shipping clerk at the Howrah train station was evidently a man both befuddled and diligent.†   (source)
  • With diligence, she could keep her from driving off a cliff in the Himalayas.†   (source)
  • I worked diligently, oblivious to the long lines stretching away in the dark.†   (source)
  • The owner of Lucky Smells Lumbermill expects you to be both assiduous and diligent.†   (source)
  • Work out your own salvation with diligence.†   (source)
  • My noble father labors so diligently that I scarce see him anymore.†   (source)
  • As crazy as he was, he was persistent and diligent and his instincts were usually right.†   (source)
  • This last conclusion seemed unfair to the general population, famously diligent and hungry for jobs.†   (source)
  • He searched for it in his diligent, careful way and located it.†   (source)
  • I wasn't as diligent as I should have been, and I'm sorry for that," he confessed.†   (source)
  • Asha's fingers work diligently at separating the pea from its useless husk.†   (source)
  • The lamp of diligence and all that, Mikael.†   (source)
  • A strong ruler requires only a diligent servant to carry out his orders.†   (source)
  • Seems to me anyone searching that diligently would have found one by now.†   (source)
  • We worked with great diligence and succeeded.†   (source)
  • Together they decided to pass the ball to a diligent and experienced prosecutor: Richard Ekström.†   (source)
  • She was almost as diligent as when she had the whole weight of the house on her shoulders.†   (source)
  • Certainly we should have worked hard and diligently, but I think we may have overdone it.†   (source)
  • He worked diligently on the three-thirty-to-eleven-P. M. shift and maintained his own apartment.†   (source)
  • But he was patient and diligent and he kept coming back and took more vacation days.†   (source)
  • I am proud to have the integrity to be fair to the diligent students.†   (source)
  • Peony was diligent in her studies, but one day she said to me, "My writing is crude.†   (source)
  • And if she was diligent, perhaps she would marry better than her mother had.†   (source)
  • For instance, although she continued to discharge her professional duties with all her usual diligence, her general mood tended to undergo swings of a sort I had hitherto never witnessed.†   (source)
  • As the anthropologist Francesca Bray puts it, rice agriculture is "skill oriented": if you're willing to weed a bit more diligently, and become more adept at fertilizing, and spend a bit more time monitoring water levels, and do a better job keeping the claypan absolutely level, and make use of every square inch of your rice paddy, you'll harvest a bigger crop.†   (source)
  • Aminta Dechamps, Dr. Lacides Olivella's wife, and her seven equally diligent daughters, had arranged every detail so that the silver anniversary luncheon would be the social event of the year.†   (source)
  • For decades, these two paintings have been revered by our public, praised by our critics, and sketched by our diligent students of the arts.†   (source)
  • Though I had not thought of his expulsion in years, the circumstances had been so diligently hushed up that it seemed likely he'd done something fairly serious, something that in less controlled circumstances might have involved the police: which in a weird way reassured me, in terms of trusting him to collect his cash and keep his mouth shut.†   (source)
  • A small, elegant woman walking across the local golf course when her children were too young to play alone, diligently trying to make sense of American sports so she could understand her children's milieu.†   (source)
  • Although I'm extremely diligent when it comes to my schoolwork and can pretty much follow the BBC Home Service on the radio, I still spend many of my Sundays sorting out and looking over my movie-star collection, which has grown to a very respectable size.†   (source)
  • " 'Assiduous' and 'diligent' both mean the same thing," said Klaus, who knew lots of impressive words from all the books he had read.†   (source)
  • It was there that Lorenzo Daza gave Juvenal Urbino his first lessons in chess, and he was such a diligent pupil that chess became an incurable addiction that tormented him until the day of his death.†   (source)
  • He had arrived in the sort of clothes one often sees continental gentlemen wearing on their holidays, and indeed, throughout his stay, he was to maintain diligently the appearance of having come to Darlington Hall entirely for pleasure and friendship.†   (source)
  • When the noon bell sounded, the diligent man could take pride in having made good use of the morning and sit down to his lunch with a clear conscience.†   (source)
  • And the Count could confirm that Osip approached the task with the utmost diligence and care, for when a movie was playing he could hardly sit still.†   (source)
  • She took it as a joke, which is what she did with everything she did not care to discuss, and she said that God had not put that diligent oriole's beak on her face just for decoration.†   (source)
  • Sofia, who the moment before had been in the lobby, was seated at the Grand Duke's desk, leaning diligently over her tome.†   (source)
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  • The diligence stopped at the "Croix-Rouge" in the Place Beauvoisine.   (source)
    diligence = stagecoach
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