All 4 Uses
diligent
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
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- I will be to him now what he was to me that day when we stood by the road-side, waiting for the diligence to Paris, and my purpose broke, and,—he saved me.†
Part 7diligence = hard work and care
- By agreement the two friends were to meet at dawn in a certain field outside Riom on the fateful day, and there await the diligence for Paris.†
Part 9
- While they were pacing up and down, arm-in-arm, they heard a hollow sound; the diligence rumbling down the mountain gorge.†
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- He was trying to forge a new Will in that devout and exhausted priest; and the time was short, for the diligence for Paris was already rumbling down the mountain gorge.†
Part 9
Definitions:
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(1)
(diligent as in: she is diligent) working carefully and steadily with effort and attention to detail
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(2)
(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.