Sample Sentences for
sedulous
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    The voice was overly ingratiating, sedulously sweet.  (source)
    sedulously = calculatedly
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    For three hours they danced and drank together, sedulously avoiding any serious topic of conversation.  (source)
    sedulously = diligently
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    I had been sedulous to take note of shadows.  (source)
    sedulous = careful or diligent
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    As she had feared, sleep sedulously avoided her eyes.†  (source)
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    She wondered what sort of herbs they were which the old man was so sedulous to gather.†  (source)
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    The Rev. Mr. Veal used to compliment Georgy upon it personally, warning him that he was destined for a high station; that it became him to prepare, by sedulity and docility in youth, for the lofty duties to which he would be called in mature age; that obedience in the child was the best preparation for command in the man; and that he therefore begged George would not bring toffee into the school and ruin the health of the Masters Bangles, who had everything they wanted at the elegant and abundant table of Mrs. Veal.†  (source)
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    Caderousse, meanwhile, continued to pace the room in gloomy silence, sedulously avoiding the sight of his guest; but as soon as the stranger had completed his repast, the agitated inn-keeper went eagerly to the door and opened it.†  (source)
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    It had been her care which provided me a companion in Clerval—and yet a man is blind to a thousand minute circumstances which call forth a woman's sedulous attention.†  (source)
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    We bought some biscuits and chocolate which we ate sedulously as we wandered through the squalid streets where the families of the fishermen live.†  (source)
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    In the year 18—, Dr. J. purchased a somewhat large quantity from Messrs. M. He now begs them to search with the most sedulous care, and should any of the same quality be left, to forward it to him at once.†  (source)
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    In this view they were sedulously abetted by their mothers, aunts and other elderly female relatives, who all shared Mrs. Archer's belief that when "such things happened" it was undoubtedly foolish of the man, but somehow always criminal of the woman.†  (source)
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    Leading the life I did, of the sedulous, strained nurse, I had to do something to keep myself fit.†  (source)
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    When Correggio's Holy Families were admired, they admired Correggio's Holy Families; when he was decried in favour of Velasquez, they sedulously followed suit without any personal objection.†  (source)
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