All 13 Uses of
industrious
in
Of Human Bondage
- He read industriously, as he read always, without criticism, stories of cruelty, deceit, ingratitude, dishonesty, and low cunning.†
Chpt 13-14 *industriously = with hard work
- 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.†
Chpt 23-24
- Luckily Hayward's letters came seldom, and in the intervals Philip settled down again to his industrious life.†
Chpt 31-32
- 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.†
Chpt 37-38industriously = with hard work
- Most of the students took the curriculum of the Conjoint Board of the College of Surgeons and the College of Physicians; but the more ambitious or the more industrious added to this the longer studies which led to a degree from the University of London.†
Chpt 53-54
- But for the most part medical students are industrious young men of the middle-class with a sufficient allowance to live in the respectable fashion they have been used to; many are the sons of doctors who have already something of the professional manner; their career is mapped out: as soon as they are qualified they propose to apply for a hospital appointment, after holding which (and perhaps a trip to the Far East as a ship's doctor), they will join their father and spend the rest of their days in a country practice.†
Chpt 55-56
- In the three months of the winter session the students who had joined in October had already shaken down into groups, and it was clear which were brilliant, which were clever or industrious, and which were "rotters.'†
Chpt 59-60
- Printed matter had always been a fetish to Philip, and now, in order to make himself more interesting, he read industriously The Sporting Times.†
Chpt 61-62industriously = with hard work
- She was writing away industriously, but she sprang to her feet as he entered.†
Chpt 69-70
- He had been working for it industriously, and now with only ten days before him he made a final effort.†
Chpt 73-74
- 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.†
Chpt 73-74
- I say, you are industrious,' he smiled.†
Chpt 91-92
- and the inevitable, abject penury of the end: she might be energetic, thrifty, industrious, it would not have saved her;†
Chpt 113-114
Definition:
characterized by a habit of hard work