Both Uses of
industrious
in
Hard Times
- 'The clerks,' said Mrs. Sparsit, carefully brushing an imperceptible crumb of bread and butter from her left-hand mitten, 'are trustworthy, punctual, and industrious, of course?'†
Chpt 2.1 *
- The result of the varieties of boredom I have undergone, is a conviction (unless conviction is too industrious a word for the lazy sentiment I entertain on the subject), that any set of ideas will do just as much good as any other set, and just as much harm as any other set.†
Chpt 2.2
Definition:
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(industrious) characterized by a habit of hard work