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she is diligent
Definition
hard work and care in tasks — often continuing when others might quit because of difficulties
- Jane, you are docile, diligent, disinterested, faithful, constant, and courageous; very gentle, and very heroic: cease to mistrust yourself — I can trust you unreservedly.Chapter 34 (70% in)
- I watch your career with interest, because I consider you a specimen of a diligent, orderly, energetic woman: not because I deeply compassionate what you have gone through, or what you still suffer.Chapter 32 (90% in)
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- I never saw a busier person than she seemed to be; yet it was difficult to say what she did: or rather, to discover any result of her diligence.Chapter 21 (70% in)
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