All 22 Uses of

diligent
in
Les Miserables

I thought the diligence never stopped.†
Chpt 1.3

diligence = hard work and care

Suppose a case: I am a traveller; I say to the diligence, 'I will go on in advance; you shall pick me up on the quay as you pass.†
Chpt 1.3

The Toulouse diligence tears us from the abyss, and the abyss is you, O our little beauties!†
Chpt 1.3

hunt, smoke, yawn, drink, smell of tobacco, play billiards, stare at travellers as they descend from the diligence, live at the cafe, dine at the inn, have a dog which eats the bones under the table, and a mistress who eats the dishes on the table;†
Chpt 1.5

Why, I thought that I had said to Monsieur le Maire that the case was to be tried to-morrow, and that I am to set out by diligence to-night.†
Chpt 1.6

We have known and associated with one who was greatly respected and vastly admired because he had seen a man fall from the top of the tower of Notre-Dame; another, because he had succeeded in making his way into the rear courtyard where the statues of the dome of the Invalides had been temporarily deposited, and had "prigged" some lead from them; a third, because he had seen a diligence tip over; still another, because he "knew" a soldier who came near putting out the eye of a citizen.†
Chpt 3.1

A diligence from the Rue du Bouloi took the trip to Rouen by night at that date, and passed through Vernon.†
Chpt 3.3

On my arrival, I went to the diligence to engage my seat in the coupe.†
Chpt 3.3

Marius, on the evening following this dialogue, mounted the diligence without suspecting that he was watched.†
Chpt 3.3

Elegant women descended from the diligence; he did not glance at them.†
Chpt 3.3

Marius returned from Vernon on the third day, in the middle of the morning, descended at his grandfather's door, and, wearied by the two nights spent in the diligence, and feeling the need of repairing his loss of sleep by an hour at the swimming-school, he mounted rapidly to his chamber, took merely time enough to throw off his travelling-coat, and the black ribbon which he wore round his neck, and went off to the bath.†
Chpt 3.3

Occasionally, with the ordinary words thus deformed and complicated with words of pure slang, picturesque phrases are formed, in which there can be felt the mixture of the two preceding elements, the direct creation and the metaphor: le cab jaspine, je marronne que la roulotte de Pantin trime dans le sabri, the dog is barking, I suspect that the diligence for Paris is passing through the woods.†
Chpt 4.7

Combeferre, wearing an apron, was dressing the wounds: Bossuet and Feuilly were making cartridges with the powder-flask picked up by Gavroche on the dead corporal, and Bossuet said to Feuilly: "We are soon to take the diligence for another planet"; Courfeyrac was disposing and arranging on some paving-stones which he had reserved for himself near Enjolras, a complete arsenal, his sword-cane, his gun, two holster pistols, and a cudgel, with the care of a young girl setting a small dunkerque in order.†
Chpt 5.1

People had not yet grasped to the full the chastity, exquisiteness, and decency of jolting their paradise in a posting-chaise, of breaking up their mystery with clic-clacs, of taking for a nuptial bed the bed of an inn, and of leaving behind them, in a commonplace chamber, at so much a night, the most sacred of the souvenirs of life mingled pell-mell with the tete-a-tete of the conductor of the diligence and the maid-servant of the inn.†
Chpt 5.6

The sense of smell, that mysterious aid to memory, had just revived a whole world within him. ...one of the two scents which he had so diligently sought ... had come and presented itself to him of its own accord.
Chpt 5.9 *

diligently = with hard work and care

The proletarian peasant woman, who toils by the day, turns round when the diligence passes by, the peasant proprietress, who toils in her field, does not turn round.†
Chpt 5.9

diligence = hard work and care

Definitions:

(1) (diligent as in: she is diligent)
working carefully and steadily with effort and attention to detail
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

More specifically in law, diligence or due diligence refers to the care or attention expected by the law in doing something such as fulfilling the terms of a contract.

More rarely, but sometimes seen in classic literature, a diligence is a public stagecoach.