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  • They want industrious boys.†   (source)
  • After he left us at the door, we followed the Polish landlord, Mr. Kaminski, down the tiled hallway and up the stairs, struggling in the heat and the dark with our bags while he lectured us on the virtues of cleanliness and civility and industriousness, all of which he clearly suspected we lacked.†   (source)
  • At first she was wildly industrious, cleaning out closets and scrubbing the insides of kitchen cupboards and scraping the shelves of the refrigerator, rinsing out the vegetable bins.†   (source)
  • And my mother's education was the product of the riots of 1937 and the industriousness of Mr. Chance.†   (source)
  • White people thought I was industrious.†   (source)
  • Quite industrious, don't you think?†   (source)
  • She is pulling and untwisting and bending forward, occasionally, to chew at the nylon with her teeth, giving the impression of a quiet and industrious animal gnawing its way through a fence.†   (source)
  • She would sit in a linen closet, reading a confession magazine and smoking, but whenever Ullman went on one of his unscheduled prowls (and woe to the girl he caught resting her feet) he found her working industriously, her magazine hidden under the sheets on a high shelf, her ashtray tucked safely into her uniform pocket.†   (source)
  • I do know that the industrious bees do the most of it.†   (source)
  • I took out my book industriously, but halfway through rechecking the first problem I was daydreaming, watching the sunlight play on the red-barked trees.†   (source)
  • The difficulty is that he is ambitious of honors out of his proper line; cares more to be more extraordinarily active, industrious, zealous & generally useful, than to achieve fine results in L.A. [Landscape Architecture].†   (source)
  • The Karchers were German-American, industrious, and devoutly Catholic.†   (source)
  • Simon's eyes flicked sideways to stare at the girl, who was industriously studying an issue of Shonen Jump.†   (source)
  • 'Mortar!' he would bellow, the word echoing over the site, and I would snatch up the first bucket that came to hand, or a brick trowel, and pretend to be working industriously.†   (source)
  • Beside me, Basil pumped industriously at the bellows.†   (source)
  • They were industrious, orderly, and energetic, hoping to prove beyond a doubt De Gobineau's hypothesis that "all civilizations derive from the white race, that none can exist without its help, and that a society is great and brilliant only so far as it preserves the blood of the noble group that created it.†   (source)
  • What with Japanese industriousness and high-tech culture and the market principles that the Denny's chain is always pursuing, it shouldn't be that hard to get crispy toast, don't you think?†   (source)
  • "Well, you know what an industrious fellow I am; you remember how I liked to learn and how I'd already trained myself to work twenty hours a day.†   (source)
  • He was terribly aware of his body, the length of his limbs, and the soft wind ruffling his hair, and of Lorenzo and Belle, poised like two cherubim together, and of Harold, the prince of darkness, industrious, indefatigable keeper of the weed.†   (source)
  • But amaMfengu were an industrious people, and because of their contact with Europeans, they were often more educated and "Western" than other Africans.†   (source)
  • She kept the vacuum running while she looked for some way to cover the nozzle; she didn't want these wasps, so industrious and single-minded, to escape.†   (source)
  • Columns of ants had found a pile of meatless chicken bones at my feet and were industriously carting away the crumbling marrow.†   (source)
  • She is, as she said to you, a stout, healthy creature, and, I understand, very industrious.†   (source)
  • The industrious hobbyists of the penal system would work with whatever materials they had.†   (source)
  • They were inept at first but industrious.†   (source)
  • Young men were toiling industriously in the paddies or fanning themselves indolently in the shade, but young women and girls were scarce.†   (source)
  • The point is, they had it handled, and most likely they found some sort of self-satisfaction in their industriousness.†   (source)
  • I was so industrious I shocked myself.†   (source)
  • A complex built in 1898 by the Cambria Iron Company and soon to be taken over by Bethlehem Steel offered plenty of hard work for gritty, industrious immigrants: twenty-two open-hearth furnaces, two mills for rolling sheared plates, a universal plate mill, and a continuous bar mill.†   (source)
  • Colonel Cathcart was indefatigable that way, an industrious, intense, dedicated military tactician who calculated day and night in the service of himself.†   (source)
  • When she saw how poor I was in spirit, she reminded me that men farm and women weave, that industriousness brings no hunger, believing I could change my destiny.†   (source)
  • Cedric lies there with a dazed smile while mother and daughter turn resolute and industrious, with Barbara heaving the suitcase up onto the foot of the bed.†   (source)
  • But the people of ancient London weren't interested in constructing tall things, so one night the pigeons snuck into the bedroom of the most industrious human they could find and whispered into his ear the plans for a magnificent tower.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the adults believed that Shiva, my busy, industrious brother, was naturally parsimonious with his words.†   (source)
  • A long list of qualities vied for our vote: industrious, adventurous, creative, smart, kind, playful, and so on.†   (source)
  • The Sweet Judy had caught up with him out among the islands, where he had been paddling a small canoe very industriously toward the horizon.†   (source)
  • He was the third of the eight sons of a prominent, industrious Quaker also named Nathanael, and the one, of all the sons, his father counted on most to further the family interests.†   (source)
  • An industrious investigative journalist could get paranoid on less than this.†   (source)
  • Although they might give him credit for being industrious and clever, they thought that he was basically a jerk civilian in fast-running water way over his head.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, up in the shattered hall, the builders are hammering, replacing the door for (it must be) the fiftieth or sixtieth time, industrious and witless as worker ants--except that they make small, foolish changes, adding a few more iron pegs, more iron bands, with tireless dogmatism.†   (source)
  • We stood the jar on the flat stone beside our shoes while we fished, and industriously scampered back to it now and then with our catch, oblivious of all else until a voice said: 'Hullo, there, David!†   (source)
  • Rolf's death no doubt hit her hard; he had been an uncommonly talented and industrious student.†   (source)
  • Who did she think she was, anyway-bringing this kind of controversy and trouble into a good, industrious, Christian town like Canterbury?†   (source)
  • Liv Crawford is helplessly, perhaps even morbidly industrious.†   (source)
  • Many whose wherewithal had been solely a matter of birth looked down upon the industrious lawyer for having worked, some who had become rich entirely from their own labor resented that he had had an inheritance, and those who had done and received neither were bitter that he had either.†   (source)
  • It gives the few perceptive, enterprising, and wealthy citizens an advantage over the industrious and uninformed mass of people.†   (source)
  • The clan from Mithril Hall had spent days in industrious preparation for this invasion, yet it nearly passed them by altogether.†   (source)
  • How enterprising, industrious, and how grossly stupid!†   (source)
  • She could not begrudge him his industrious amazement.†   (source)
  • …turned upon the irony of civilizations being consolidated by violent and powerful conquerors who end up commissioning the artists and the architects, he began to associate the sight of a mother bird feeding its young with the image of the honey bee, an image deeply lodged in poetic tradition and always suggestive of the ideal of an industrious, harmonious, nurturing commonwealth: The bees build in the crevices Of loosening masonry, and there The mother birds bring grubs and flies.†   (source)
  • Randy's community was far more fortunate with the bearing groves, fish loyally taking bait, the industrious Henrys and their barnyard, and some small game—squirrels, rabbits, and an occasional possum.†   (source)
  • I speculated on our matrimonial bed at the farm, thought of its size and shape, wondered if its mattress was constructed with sufficient amplitude, bounce and resilience to accommodate the industrious venery it would certainly receive.†   (source)
  • "I'm sorry," said Peters at last, "but I do not believe that one man, however well placed, however careful, however industrious, could have acquired such a range of detailed knowledge.†   (source)
  • In some the people are industrious, they work hard, then it isn't bad.†   (source)
  • One of them held a camera to his face and was industriously taking photos.†   (source)
  • After a few minutes of awkward conversation with a bored Magnus while Jace, sitting on Luke's piano bench and industriously studying some sheet music, ignored her, Clary decided to go to bed early.†   (source)
  • We'd given Luke his own small shovel, a rusty trowel, and he was industriously digging up bits of earth, smiling at me with every shovelful, when an alien growl floated up through the trees.†   (source)
  • Receipts for sales, outstanding bills, my books, which I had industriously brought up to date, were all presented.†   (source)
  • He had his DS balanced on his blue-jeaned knees and was poking away at it industriously with the stylus.†   (source)
  • With its mortal enemies paralyzed by the Demon Drink, it had swooped down and was industriously pulling their pants off them, which meant very neatly and carefully plucking out every white feather on their legs while making happy but fortunately muffled parrot noises.†   (source)
  • I was chilling with them, surrounded by prisoners who were crocheting industriously, watching Fear Factor with their headsets on, or just talking.†   (source)
  • She pulled her eyes away from him and set the stele to his shoulder, industriously carving into his skin what had to be the millionth healing rune he'd ever gotten.†   (source)
  • Mama Lo doesn't have any husband, though she's as industrious as the day is long.†   (source)
  • Wasn't I the industrious stupid one who always worked?†   (source)
  • Their industrious need made me light-headed: my dresses would be curtains, and my curtains, dresses.†   (source)
  • Shit, blood, oil, and grease eventually hold sway in spite of the most industrious efforts.†   (source)
  • She became the most devoted mother: sober, clean and industrious.†   (source)
  • It is the sure and certain way for an industrious man to be rich.†   (source)
  • They were cheerful, industrious, and thoughtful.†   (source)
  • Stone-masons were in great demand over there because of all the building and works that were going forward, and he had it on good authority that soon there would be many railway stations to be constructed; and an industrious man could do well for himself.†   (source)
  • After that he said he would make me a daisy crown, in honour of the day; and the two of us set to making daisy chains, and were very busy and industrious over them, just like small children; and I don't think I'd enjoyed myself more since the times with Mary Whitney.†   (source)
  • As at home in tin as it is in Limoges, coffee can energize the industrious at dawn, calm the reflective at noon, or raise the spirits of the beleagured in the middle of the night.†   (source)
  • Once suitably attired, he opened the door to find an industrious young fellow standing in the hall with the Count's daily breakfast—a pot of coffee, two biscuits, and a piece of fruit (today a plum).†   (source)
  • So Margaret supervised—ordered people to do work they were already doing, criticized their slowness and laziness even when they were quick and industrious, and in general, made trouble.†   (source)
  • Happy as a fly and just as industrious, he lived with her for six years until he came home to find her with another man.†   (source)
  • Lovell, the most active member of the Committee for Foreign Affairs and a dedicated patriot, was a shrewd, industrious man who loved intrigue and would make himself Congress's expert on cryptology.†   (source)
  • The industrious dwarves immediately set about reconditioning the little-used tunnels that ran in that direction.†   (source)
  • 'I don't buy eggs in Malta,' he confessed, with an air of slight and clandestine amusement that was the only departure from industrious sobriety Yossarian had ever seen him make.†   (source)
  • For us, as for everyone else, it looked like being a serene, if industrious, summer, and possibly it would have been so, but for Petra.†   (source)
  • Whatever his fortune, whatever the cut of his garment, there would always be the hem—the tuck and fold that hid his raveling edges; a someone sweet, industrious and loyal to shore him up.†   (source)
  • "My aged and venerable mother is drawing near the close of a virtuous and industrious life," he wrote to Nabby.†   (source)
  • The interruptions were expensive and wasteful; moreover, they always brought anxiety if the trouble was near our sector: nobody could be sure that they might not come farther one time…… Mostly, however, we led a comfortable, settled, industrious existence.†   (source)
  • With his phenomenal capacity for work—an attribute not lost on the industrious Dutch—he produced materials of every kind in an all-out effort to "undeceive" them, while at the same time providing Congress with some of the most astute political reporting of his diplomatic career.†   (source)
  • My impression was of an uncomfortably industrious place where there always seemed to be more jobs than people, unless one was careful, so on this particular evening I contrived to lie low until routine sounds told me that it was near enough to the mealtime for me to show myself safely.†   (source)
  • Industriously he probed the black inside of the hub with the stick.†   (source)
  • Oceania by the width of the Atlantic and the Pacific, Eastasia by the fecundity and industriousness of its inhabitants.†   (source)
  • And as he went, he nuzzled his stiff mustache into Eugene's tender neck, mooing industriously and always getting an answer.†   (source)
  • Archie sat on a stool by the hearth, his back against the fireplace, his cheek distended with tobacco, whittling industriously on a bit of wood.†   (source)
  • These two industriously spread the rumor that the Southerners and Democrats were just waiting for a good chance to put the negroes back into slavery and that the negroes' only hope of escaping this fate was the protection given them by the Bureau and the Republican party.†   (source)
  • He was a student in the Law School, but he spent a large part of his time, industriously, in avoiding study.†   (source)
  • He set up business in Sydney, the little capital city of one of the middle Southern states, lived soberly and industriously under the attentive eye of a folk still raw with defeat and hostility, and finally, his good name founded and admission won, he married a gaunt tubercular spinstress, ten years his elder, but with a nest egg and an unshakable will to matrimony.†   (source)
  • Marilla found Mrs. Lynde knitting quilts as industriously and cheerfully as usual.†   (source)
  • But the other hobbled industriously after him.†   (source)
  • She was writing away industriously, but she sprang to her feet as he entered.†   (source)
  • Has it not been industriously circulated by yourselves?†   (source)
  • She was sewing, and went on with her work industriously.†   (source)
  • As for me, I stared industriously in the direction under observation but without spotting a thing.†   (source)
  • By this time Jack had pointed a good supply of arrows, and industriously practised archery.†   (source)
  • His head had been industriously shaved, after the most approved fashion of Sioux taste.†   (source)
  • They were working industriously round one of the biggest standard roses when he caught sight of something which made him utter an exclamation of surprise.†   (source)
  • The three splashes made one splash, a shower flew up, black heads bobbed convulsively, and disappeared; but a great blowing and spluttering went on, growing faint, for they were diving industriously in great fear of a parting shot.†   (source)
  • And further he was quite at one with the druggist for whom they worked in thinking that Clyde, in addition to assisting him about the fountain, should run such errands as the druggist desired, which kept Clyde industriously employed for nearly all the hours he was on duty.†   (source)
  • He read industriously, as he read always, without criticism, stories of cruelty, deceit, ingratitude, dishonesty, and low cunning.†   (source)
  • In the other he had the sharp case-knife we used for slicing bacon; and he was industriously and realistically trying to take Bill's scalp, according to the sentence that had been pronounced upon him the evening before.†   (source)
  • A submissive orchestra dictated to by a spectacled man with frowsy hair and a dress suit, industriously followed the bobs of his head and the waves of his baton.†   (source)
  • Martin may not have learned much in the matter of antibodies but he did learn the secret of the Institute, and he saw that behind all its quiet industriousness was Capitola McGurk, the Great White Uplifter.†   (source)
  • He had been working for it industriously, and now with only ten days before him he made a final effort.†   (source)
  • Printed matter had always been a fetish to Philip, and now, in order to make himself more interesting, he read industriously The Sporting Times.†   (source)
  • In the evenings when they did not go out, the young women sang little songs in the green velvet drawing-room, while Fraulein Anna, who always made herself useful, industriously accompanied.†   (source)
  • Hayward had recommended to him a guide which had been compiled out of Ruskin's works, and with this in hand he went industriously through room after room: he read carefully what the critic had said about a picture and then in a determined fashion set himself to see the same things in it.†   (source)
  • There were middle-aged gentlemen spending a week-end in one of the large hotels, carefully dressed; and they walked industriously after too substantial a breakfast to give themselves an appetite for too substantial a luncheon: they exchanged the time of day with friends and talked of Dr. Brighton or London-by-the-Sea.†   (source)
  • This expedient produced the desired effect, for every urchin on the ground went industriously to work to wring the necks of the wounded birds.†   (source)
  • — She had to destroy all the hopes which she had been so industriously feeding—to appear in the ungracious character of the one preferred—and acknowledge herself grossly mistaken and mis-judging in all her ideas on one subject, all her observations, all her convictions, all her prophecies for the last six weeks.†   (source)
  • I could not but smile to see how industriously they locked the door on my meditations, which followed them out again without let or hindrance, and they were really all that was dangerous.†   (source)
  • Through all this variety of decoration, however, the room showed its original characteristics; its low stud, its cross-beam, its chimney-piece, with the old-fashioned Dutch tiles; so that it was the emblem of a mind industriously stored with foreign ideas, and elaborated into artificial refinement, but neither larger, nor, in its proper self, more elegant than before.†   (source)
  • In an Oriental dressing-gown girt round the waist with a pocket-handkerchief he was industriously digging in his garden.†   (source)
  • The clock was industriously ticking, but its leaden-looking hands did no discredit to their dull aspect, for they pointed to the hour of eleven, though the sun plainly showed it was some time past the turn of the day.†   (source)
  • Her lips were quivering, and tears so crowded themselves into her eyes that she could hardly distinguish apples from fern as she continued industriously searching to hide her weakness.†   (source)
  • As for Rosamond, she was in the water-lily's expanding wonderment at its own fuller life, and she too was spinning industriously at the mutual web.†   (source)
  • …come to understand better what this life was, from which, for fifteen years, he had stood aloof as from a strange thing, with which he could have no communion: as some man who has a precious plant to which he would give a nurturing home in a new soil, thinks of the rain, and the sunshine, and all influences, in relation to his nursling, and asks industriously for all knowledge that will help him to satisfy the wants of the searching roots, or to guard leaf and bud from invading harm.†   (source)
  • "Mr. and Mrs. Hubble might like to see you in your new gen-teel figure too, Pip," said Joe, industriously cutting his bread, with his cheese on it, in the palm of his left hand, and glancing at my untasted supper as if he thought of the time when we used to compare slices.†   (source)
  • She could not think that Harriet's solace or her own sins required more; and she was therefore industriously getting rid of the subject as they returned;—but it burst out again when she thought she had succeeded, and after speaking some time of what the poor must suffer in winter, and receiving no other answer than a very plaintive— "Mr.†   (source)
  • Industriously had the boys worked to repair the damage, and when we returned not a sign was to be seen of the disorder.†   (source)
  • Caderousse, then, was, as usual, at his place of observation before the door, his eyes glancing listlessly from a piece of closely shaven grass—on which some fowls were industriously, though fruitlessly, endeavoring to turn up some grain or insect suited to their palate—to the deserted road, which led away to the north and south, when he was aroused by the shrill voice of his wife, and grumbling to himself as he went, he mounted to her chamber, first taking care, however, to set the…†   (source)
  • Being curious to make out what they were at, we tied up the dogs, as well as Storm and Lightfoot, and crept near enough to see that the apes were most industriously grubbing up and eating roots.†   (source)
  • They found Naumann painting industriously, but no model was present; his pictures were advantageously arranged, and his own plain vivacious person set off by a dove-colored blouse and a maroon velvet cap, so that everything was as fortunate as if he had expected the beautiful young English lady exactly at that time.†   (source)
  • …he will apply the principle on which I have so much insisted, namely, that of selection; on this he will depend for removing what would otherwise be painful or disgusting in the passion; he will feel that there is no necessity to trick out or to elevate nature: and, the more industriously he applies this principle, the deeper will be his faith that no words, which his fancy or imagination can suggest, will be to be compared with those which are the emanations of reality and truth.†   (source)
  • He lay around during the day, for there was no reason to be industrious anymore, ever again.†   (source)
  • They were Scotch-Irish mountaineers, rugged, provincial, intelligent, and industrious.†   (source)
  • Then one day the unlucky, industrious one was not there.†   (source)
  • Such an industrious hack was called an "all-round man."†   (source)
  • Which do we prefer, a law-abiding, industrious and purposeful native people, or a lawless, idle and purposeless people?†   (source)
  • I demand this so that others may be deterred from similar crimes, so that peaceful and industrious people may be safe.†   (source)
  • Lycett, you see, believes in running after hares; Hawkins has spent a most industrious afternoon in the library.†   (source)
  • And our frank-spoken, amiable, and industrious citizens have always inspired a reasonable esteem in visitors.†   (source)
  • There the industrious young man spent his evenings, fitting together the apparatus, a victim to the charms of wireless, and kneeling on pious knees before the god of applied science whose might had made it possible to discover after thousands of years a fact which every thinker has always known and put to better use than in this recent and very imperfect development.†   (source)
  • Given the chance for the frugal, the industrious, and the able—for the Abraham Lincoln if not the John D. Johnstons—to assert themselves, society would never be divided along fixed lines.†   (source)
  • Miss Brinklow was at first a little daunted by the massive volume compiled by an industrious nineteenth-century German (she had more probably imagined some slighter work of a "Brush up your Tibetan" type), but with help from the Chinese and encouragement from Conway she made a good beginning and was soon observed to be extracting grim satisfaction from her task.†   (source)
  • His long holster and belt glistened and his silver spurs and scabbard gleamed, from the industrious polishing Uncle Peter had given them.†   (source)
  • Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph.†   (source)
  • Once at night, Jack Burden woke up and thought he heard the sound of sobs from the living room, where the unlucky, industrious one slept on a wall bed.†   (source)
  • So Jack Burden lived in the slatternly apartment with the two other graduate students, for even after being fired the unlucky, industrious one still lived in the apartment.†   (source)
  • So they came to rest on the little pine table in Jack Burden's bedroom in the slatternly apartment which he occupied with the two other graduate students, the unlucky, industrious, and alcoholic one, and the lucky, idle, and alcoholic one.†   (source)
  • This Jack Burden (of whom the present Jack Burden, Me, is a legal, biological, and perhaps even metaphysical continuator) lived in a slatternly apartment with two other graduate students, one industrious, stupid, unlucky, and alcoholic and the other idle, intelligent, lucky, and alcoholic.†   (source)
  • A weary but industrious young woman with a scrawny neck thumped almost constantly at a battered piano.†   (source)
  • But he and the two other men in the apartment had a wonderful blowout, which lasted for five days, and as a result of which the industrious and unlucky one lost his job and the idle and lucky one got too sociable, and, despite his luck, contracted a social disease.†   (source)
  • She was a timid, sensitive girl, looking like her name—Daisy-ish industrious and thorough in her studies: her teachers thought her one of the best students they had ever known.†   (source)
  • Usually, these dignities—the presidencies of student bodies, classes, Y.M.C.A.'s, and the managerships of athletic teams—were given to some honest serf who had established his greatness behind a plough before working in the college commons, or to some industrious hack who had shown a satisfactory mediocrity in all directions.†   (source)
  • …or veiled, bloodshot in the mornings, brightening only with excitement), big hands that worked and twisted slowly on his lap, plucking at each other, and twisted big feet that were inclined to shamble—a youth not beautiful, not brilliant, not industrious, not good, not kind, not even ambitious, given to excesses and confusions, thrown between melancholy and random violence, between the cold mire and the hot flame, between curiosity and apathy, between humility and self-love, between…†   (source)
  • She was loyal, industrious, and at rare times merry.†   (source)
  • But there was trouble in my family; father was not very industrious, and he drank a little.†   (source)
  • Lou and Oscar were industrious, but he could never teach them to use their heads about their work.†   (source)
  • The industrious Pilchuck dropped four more while they were crowding behind, following off the flat.†   (source)
  • It was a world of good little people, comfortable, industrious, credulous.†   (source)
  • The Industrious Apprentice rose by virtues few and narrow indeed, but still virtues.†   (source)
  • He had been sober and industrious so long now!†   (source)
  • "I say, you are industrious,' he smiled.†   (source)
  • They are industrious, commercial people; 'the happiness of all' is their case.†   (source)
  • But Tom is so steady, industrious, and pious.†   (source)
  • Of all these industrious researches Miss Crawley had the full benefit.†   (source)
  • In the mean time the industrious and irreclaimable hours continued their labours.†   (source)
  • "By what place did the imp enter?" asked the industrious scout, when his work was ended.†   (source)
  • I should have been quite delighted with his application, had he been cheerfully industrious.†   (source)
  • But I was subject to it; and so were hundreds of intelligent and industrious people all around us.†   (source)
  • "Was he—I don't know how to shape the question—" murmured my guardian, "industrious?"†   (source)
  • 'I want to have something to do with all those many hours when you are so industrious.†   (source)
  • I told her you were a very good, honest, and industrious man.†   (source)
  • How now, friend; you have been industrious to have got so far ahead in so short a time.†   (source)
  • When life is thought to be the reward of labour, men are wont to be industrious.†   (source)
  • The men sat with legs stretched out before them, puffing up their red or pallid cheeks and merely quaffing mechanically from time to time, apparently no longer inspired by the task at hand; the women, however, were more industrious.†   (source)
  • Archer, who was not in the mood for the kind of talk they were likely to get there, declined on the plea that he had work to do at home; and Winsett said: "Oh, well so have I for that matter, and I'll be the Industrious Apprentice too."†   (source)
  • Why had they come at such an awkward time, and why, the gentlemen on the other side of the closed door seemed to be asking, was the industrious K. using up the best business time for his private affairs?†   (source)
  • A hundred years ago we had the ideal of the Industrious Apprentice; boys were told that by thrift and work they would all become Lord Mayors.†   (source)
  • He yearned for her; he regretted the casual affairs of a student and determined to be a pure and extremely industrious young man, to be, in fact, "worthy of her."†   (source)
  • I discovered from his employers that he was just all that he appeared, honest, industrious, high-spirited, friendly and ready to do anyone a good turn.†   (source)
  • These round knobs were not ornamental but symbolic; they were expressive and puzzling, striking and disturbing—food for thought and also for the vultures if there had been any looking down from the sky; but at all events for such ants as were industrious enough to ascend the pole.†   (source)
  • All that interested her in regard to this new frenzy which had seized hold of her son-in-law was whether or not it had a tendency to make him sober and industrious; and when she found he intended to look for work and to contribute his share to the family fund, she gave him full rein to convince her of anything.†   (source)
  • This connection with the well-fed and industrious stock of early New York revealed itself in the glacial neatness of Mrs. Peniston's drawing-room and in the excellence of her cuisine.†   (source)
  • In a proper state of society I am sober, industrious and honest: in Rome, so to speak, I do as the Romans do.†   (source)
  • He had possessed some claim or influence upon her mother, who favored his offer of marriage to Helen; he was neither attractive, nor good, nor industrious, nor anything that interested her; he was the boastful, strutting adventurer, not genuinely Western, and he affected long hair and guns and notoriety.†   (source)
  • You are very properly proud of having been industrious enough to make money; and it is greatly to your credit that you have made so much of it.†   (source)
  • Finally she gave a serious nod, turned back to the lawyer and said, "He's been quiet and industrious."†   (source)
  • She continued, looking up into Captain Ashburnham's eyes: "It's because of that piece of paper that you're honest, sober, industrious, provident, and clean-lived.†   (source)
  • I was becoming fanciful in the midst of my industrious scribbling; and though, when the scratching of my pen stopped for a moment, there was complete silence and stillness in the room, I suffered from that profound disturbance and confusion of thought which is caused by a violent and menacing uproar—of a heavy gale at sea, for instance.†   (source)
  • She was so impersonal, this slight, pale, industrious Swede, that it was vulgar to think of her as going to an ordinary home to eat hash.†   (source)
  • Have I conveyed to you the splendid fellow that he was—the fine soldier, the excellent landlord, the extraordinarily kind, careful and industrious magistrate, the upright, honest, fair-dealing, fair-thinking, public character?†   (source)
  • But what shall we say of the gospel preached to the new Industrious Apprentice; the Apprentice who rises not by his virtues, but avowedly by his vices?†   (source)
  • The Doppelbraus were respectable people, industrious people, prosperous people, whose ideal of happiness was an eternal cabaret.†   (source)
  • But Martin was alienated from the civilized, industrious, nice young men of Digamma Pi, in whose faces he could already see prescriptions, glossy white sterilizers, smart enclosed motors, and glass office-signs in the best gilt lettering.†   (source)
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