Sample Sentences for
sedulous
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    The voice was overly ingratiating, sedulously sweet.  (source)
    sedulously = calculatedly
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    I had been sedulous to take note of shadows.  (source)
    sedulous = careful or diligent
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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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    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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    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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    Elinor wanted very much to know, though she did not chuse to ask, whether Edward was then in town; but nothing would have induced Fanny voluntarily to mention his name before her, till able to tell her that his marriage with Miss Morton was resolved on, or till her husband's expectations on Colonel Brandon were answered; because she believed them still so very much attached to each other, that they could not be too sedulously divided in word and deed on every occasion.†  (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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    As she had feared, sleep sedulously avoided her eyes.†  (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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    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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