| 单词 | sedulous |
| 例句 | And that, following an assessment of his sedulous performance over the years, the distributor was promoting Mr. Dalai to manage the College Street branch. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z 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. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z In his own right he remains one of jazz’s more sedulous bandleaders, and later this year, he’ll release a new album with his Captain Black Big Band. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Littell is a sedulous reader of surface and detail, taking as his guide to the works the principle that "being told in paint they need to be read in paint". Triptych: Three Studies After Francis Bacon by Jonathan Littell – review 2013-07-20T11:01:01Z A cross section of works by Man Ray, ranging from photographs of his fellow Surrealists to a swank chess set, can be seen on the booth of New York’s sedulous Dada specialist Francis M. Naumann. Politics and Commerce Collide at Art Basel Miami Beach 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z She recommends unstinting regard for language and sedulous habits of self-revision; then she throws in, like an afterthought, an extra moral dimension: “Work on your character.” For Lydia Davis, Language Is Character 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Among the advantages that billionaires receive due to their wealth is sedulous defenses by journalists and other camp followers. Column: Can America's billionaires please stop whining about their privacy rights? 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z The wrong calls on the Truss program reflected a knee-jerk impulse of supply-siders to react to anything even remotely resembling the policies of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan with sedulous adoration. Column: Britain's prime minister followed the GOP's economic plan. She lost her job in record time. 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z In the sedulous pursuit of power at all costs, on the other hand, Republicans are willing to overlook disgraceful behavior. Column: The L.A. City Council mess shows how Democrats and Republicans react differently to scandal 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Manchin has been a sedulous supporter of the fossil fuel industry. Column: Fossil fuel barons killed Biden's Fed pick for talking sense on climate change 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z However, the NFL was undeterred, arrogant as usual and, most of all, sedulous in its planning. Perspective | The NFL season snuck up on us because we have other things to worry about 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z And even the most sedulous fans of deregulation, such as Douglas Holtz-Eakin of the American Action Forum, don’t forecast additions to economic growth of more than a few hundredths of a percentage point a year. ICYMI: If Trump thinks he can get more than 3% economic growth, he's dreaming 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Let’s take a look at what the NRA and its sedulous followers in the Texas Legislature have wrought. Column: Six weeks after the NRA celebrated looser Texas gun laws, a shooter kills 20 in El Paso 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z Even in the most amicable of arrangements, when all the ostensible needs are met, and everyone is healthy and clear-headed, it's nearly impossible to harness the sedulous nuances of adoption. In 'That Kind of Mother,' Rumaan Alam enters the thorny world of interracial adoption 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Crafting elegant parcels of tilled earth requires scrupulous alignment, each seed sedulous placement and tending. Stardew Valley for Switch Is the Farming Game's Ideal Home 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z For this the inquisitor prepared himself by collecting and studying all the adverse evidence that could be procured, while the prisoner was kept in sedulous ignorance of the charges against him. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z In 1702, he removed to Hackney, where he paid the most sedulous attention to the duties of his ministry; he remained there until his death, which took place in 1714, of a stroke of apoplexy. A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation 2012-03-17T02:01:03.693Z Like every poet however original, Chesterton has "played the sedulous ape to many masters." The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z A sedulous parent nags at a neurasthenic child that is too weak for exertion until the child's susceptibility to correction is blunted. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z If you are Meredith-minded, and play the sedulous ape to him, you must expect a similar catastrophe. How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction 2012-02-17T03:00:36.070Z He flattered my vanity by the most sedulous attentions, echoed my sentiments, hung upon my words, copied my style of dress, and imitated my manners. The Monctons A Novel: Volume 2 (of 2) 2012-02-11T03:03:50.943Z His bride also had, on former days, given sedulous assistance in this new improved edition of his house, and laboured faithfully among the other furnishers and furbishers. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z I was as much surprised now at this voluntary exposure of himself as I had been previously at his sedulous concealments. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z Lady Oxford was never present at these discussions; the face of her conduct was a sedulous discretion. Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z From the description which Fuseli gave of the two former, it is evident that he, as well as Lavater, had paid early in life a sedulous attention to physiognomy. The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) 2012-01-18T03:00:13.193Z The discreet and sedulous Marie divined little of what engrossed her mistress's mind, and withdrew in her wonted humility of courtesy when Claire, no longer needing her service, at last dismissed her. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z Many have swallowed without salt his statement that he learned to write by imitation; that by the "sedulous ape" method, employed with unwearying study of great models, he himself became a successful author. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z It is for the advanced pioneers to endeavour to remove the incrustation which age and learning have formed and tradition and custom enshrined with jealous and sedulous care. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z Over the public interests he watched with the most sedulous attention. Some Account of the Public Life of the Late Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost, Bart. Particularly of his Services in the Canadas, including a reply to the strictures on his Military Character, Contained in an Article in The Quareterly Review 2011-10-11T02:01:07.053Z "I am what I am because I was industrious; whoever is equally sedulous will be equally successful." Seed Thoughts for Singers 2011-10-09T02:00:24.093Z Whether on account of ill-health, or for what reasons, I do not know, I was not a very sedulous attendant at the championships in the later nineties. Fifty Years of Golf 2011-09-14T02:00:50.627Z After sedulous endeavors to reach the desired end I hit upon the right means. The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z He no longer moved in it humbly, as a man sedulous of notice; he had long since become its undisputed king. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z They were sedulous in agriculture, disciplined in war, capable of absorbing and amalgamating with conquered tribes. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Because women are debarred with the most sedulous care from various experiences of existence they can never know men as men can know women. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z They reached Wimpole Street about eight o'clock in the evening, and found every thing prepared for them with the most sedulous attention in their handsome and commodious apartments. The Vicar of Wrexhill 2011-07-13T02:00:20.177Z In consequence of this information, Wilhelm, with the most sedulous attention, set about preparing the piece, which was to usher him into the great world. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z Suitably accompanied and guarded, she would not scruple to return and ascertain, by the most sedulous examination, the cause of this ominous event. Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:21.807Z Your capitaine," again studying the Black Seigneur with dark sedulous eyes, "has not found it so much to his liking! The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z A month had passed since the Marquise had written to her mother, during which time the Marquis, more sedulous in his attentions to Aminta, had begun to make her forget her fears and suspicions. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:14.897Z Wilde played the sedulous ape with sufficient self-consciousness and sufficient failure to show that he might himself be somebody. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z He spent the greater part of that night, and the whole of next morning, in the sedulous versification of the dialogue and songs. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z His passion for science was at least equal to that which ho entertained for me, and both these passions combined to make him a sedulous instructor. Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:21.807Z His bride also had, on former days, given sedulous assistance in this new improved edition of his house, and labored faithfully among the other furnishers and furbishers. The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z Her fervent religious faith, inspired and matured by desolate experience, had nothing dreary or undecided about it; it issued in a sedulous dutifulness and a patient devotion that were the best proof of its sincerity. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z He carves the parts with sedulous care and exhaustless patience; swell and curve and hollow are wrought, polished, and cemented together so as to make them as one. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z Dionysius of Halicarnassus, himself a sedulous inquirer into antiquities, bears ample testimony to the research and accuracy of that part which treats of the origin of the ancient Italian cities. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z And I have with sedulous care avoided all the histories written immediately after the close of the great contest of arms, and all rehashes of them of later date. The Middle Period 1817-1858 2011-03-14T03:01:05.737Z It is by the sedulous examination of this Record of the Rocks that the past history of the earth’s life has been pieced together. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z North and South alike it has been my sedulous endeavor to appoint only men of high character and good capacity, whether white or black. Project Gutenberg book of Historical Romance of the American Negro 2011-02-11T03:00:26.280Z Lamartine was her favorite bard from the period when she first could feel: and she had subsequently improved her mind by a sedulous study of novels of the great modern authors of the French language. A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy 2011-01-13T03:01:13.027Z The zeal of Captain Cook upon the subject was admirably seconded by the sedulous diligence of Mr. Anderson, who omitted no opportunity of collecting every kind and degree of information. Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods 2011-01-12T03:00:35.190Z He was a sedulous observer of the nature and properties of insects, which he examined with admirable patience and sagacity. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History Her aunt, Calpurnia Hispulla, who was a dear friend of Pliny’s mother, had watched over her during the years of girlhood with a sedulous care which made her an ideal wife. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Even then he was sedulous in arranging his robes, and was pleased to have the privilege of wearing a laurel crown to hide the scantiness of his hair. Stories of the Olden Time (Historical Series—Book IV Part I) So with a careless bow she sank on one of the seats, took off her hat, shook the rain-drops off her hair, and busied herself in sedulous attentions to the pug. Beatrice Boville and Other Stories Nor was the building opposite calculated to inspire the most sedulous observer, being merely the blank wall of a warehouse. The Gay Adventure A Romance The general success of Frederick’s rule was secured by the sedulous care with which he confined himself to the work of government. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" The amazing success of his author seems, however, to have spurred the artist to sedulous study, and to have conduced in a remarkable degree towards the development of his faculties. 'Phiz' (Hablot Knight Browne), a Memoir. I am distinguished as a preacher, and sedulous as a parochial clergyman. Springtime and Other Essays When they reached the house, orders were given for the accommodation of the sergeant; and the most sedulous attention was shown to everything that regarded his comfort. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency The most sedulous attention was paid to her wants. Sketches of Aboriginal Life American Tableaux, No. 1 The billet I received told most distinctly that she was confined to her bed, severely, dangerously ill; and of course watched with all the care and attention the most sedulous anxiety could confer. Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II) Two sedulous familiars were meanwhile unbuttoning his gaiters, and in a few seconds he stood forth what even my most prejudiced judgment could not deny—the very beau-ideal of a gentleman-rider. Jack Hinton The Guardsman Case 38, on becoming engaged to a member of the Indian Civil Service, became a sedulous student of Indian literature and religion. The Intelligence of Woman Wearying at length of the lunar spectacle, and quite as weary of the sedulous attentions of a cloud of famished mosquitoes, Whitaker lounged disconsolately indoors to a pipe and a book by candle-light. The Destroying Angel The fifteenth century was especially sedulous, building chapels as a rich covering for the splendid Renaissance tombs of its spiritual and temporal lords. Cathedrals of Spain I even contrived to nod my head in sedulous and ape-like agreement when he raised interrogative eyes to mine. The Portal of Dreams It may interest the cynical to learn that I started my last hemorrhage by too sedulous attentions to my dear Bogue. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) Thus she kept the money, but it was he who ran the errands, anxiously sedulous. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) He was, however, not often aware of this sedulous espionage. The Destroying Angel At this time he was suffering from the most intense exhaustion, and his constitution was sinking under the fatigues of a long and sedulous discharge of his important duties. Old and New London Volume I She spoke with sedulous calmness; but there was a jar in her voice which did not sound quite natural. Brooke's Daughter A Novel Whether he corrected or corrupted this native gift by his famous "sedulous aping" of stylists before him is a debated question: but one quite unnecessary to touch here. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing The juxtaposition in the American people's character of Pacifism and an impulsive lust of war should have been known to us, if more sedulous attention had been paid in Germany to American conditions and characteristics. My Three Years in America In this catastrophe her lordly lover was of course the most sedulous of attendants. The Landleaguers I have thus played the sedulous ape to Hazlitt, to Lamb, to Wordsworth, to Sir Thomas Browne, to Defoe, to Hawthorne, to Montaigne, to Baudelaire, and to Obermann. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 At the tables beyond, sedulous, touting waiters were hurriedly extracting corks from frosted bottle necks. Carmen Ariza Such was the modish manner of that summer of 1915--a sedulous avoidance of anything resembling acknowledgment of obligation to those who entertained. Nobody Perhaps even this inconvenience may be remedied by sedulous cultivation; at least, the particular inability of some, ought not to discourage the well-meant endeavours of others. An Essay on the Beautiful From the Greek of Plotinus For we are told that he is as sedulous in attending these atheistic lectures as he is in flocking with his fellow citizens to hear and cheer the idols of the stump. The Book of Khalid As a man of letters and a sedulous inquirer, no French author enjoys higher reputation. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 I am still in the overburden of débris which the sedulous, tireless Fathers heaped mountain high upon the few recorded teachings of Jesus. Carmen Ariza M’ri’s tutelage and his sedulous application to Jud’s schoolbooks saved him from the ignominy of being classified with the younger children. David Dunne A Romance of the Middle West Many references to her occur in his correspondence, and the sedulous inquiries made by his friends as to her health are earnest of her son's unwearied solicitude. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History Yes, she understood it all now—those sedulous Saturday and Sunday afternoons at Harrow. Ghetto Comedies She was sedulous in pointing out the curiosities, which, I doubt not, she had a firm belief were not to be surpassed in England or Scotland. Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 I have seen somewhere a calculation that only a tenth of his works remain to us, dug out, as it were, from the buried ruins of literature by the care of sedulous and eager scholars. The Life of Cicero Volume II. Le Long, whose pursuits were48 chiefly biblical and historical, was his contemporary; an able, sedulous, and learned bibliographer. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance He, who acted a part to all the world, had been sedulous to maintain a high rôle before his daughter. A Modern Mercenary Will understood why such sedulous care was bestowed upon the ponies, which could be of little use among the great mountains. The Great Sioux Trail A Story of Mountain and Plain The Lady Mary wrote; the child moved on tiptoe, with a sedulous expression of silence about his lips, near to her elbow. The Fifth Queen Crowned Our disappointment in this expectation, though perhaps to be accounted for upon very natural principles, has been greatly aggravated by the sedulous endeavors of the enemies of both countries to create distrust and jealousies. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. VIII Hence they are more sedulous to shout and prattle. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church For something like eleven summers I've written things that aimed to teach Our careless mealy-mouthéd mummers To be more sedulous of speech. Something Else Again It was a pity that brilliantly unsuccessful man had not lived to see the result of his sedulous empiricism. Stingaree His dreariness was only complete when the sedulous civilities of his aunt carried her beyond his reach. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Watt's sympathetic reply reminds Boulton of the sentiments held by their departed friend—that, instead of indulging in unavailing sorrow, the best refuge is the more sedulous performance of duties. James Watt She had done nothing to spread abroad among the public of Hadley that fiction as to Sir Omicron's opinion which her lord had been sedulous to disseminate in London. The Bertrams Whence comes it, this sedulous attention to style, which does honour to American literature? American Sketches 1908 Thus he sat, the incarnation of blasphemy, and once more shuffled the features of his face until he looked like the sedulous ape. The Goose Man She wondered what sort of herbs they were, which the old man was so sedulous to gather. The Scarlet Letter It is by a kind of inspiration that we rise from the wise and sedulous contemplation of facts to the principles on which they depend. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 So, while she giggled under her breath, she enjoyed Jim's sedulous assistance at the street crossings immensely. Still Jim But there is nothing young in this sedulous suppression of toil. American Sketches 1908 Enough of play, young princes! ent’ring now The house, prepare we sedulous our feast, 210 Since in well-timed refreshment harm is none. The Odyssey of Homer She was charitable, careful for others, in no way self-indulgent, sedulous in every duty, and, above all things, affectionately attentive to her uncle. Cousin Henry More commonly, marked alterations in the health accompany this important crisis, and call for sedulous hygienic care. The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother What in others would have concluded in a vacant mien and colorless repose, in him expressed all that he was so sedulous to conceal. The Flaw in the Sapphire But if these gallants were sedulous, she was correspondingly indifferent. Under the Rose His sleep was localized; his pile of leaves, brought together by his own sedulous hands, became property. The Perfect Gentleman To live now was sedulous instead of easy. The Return Of The Soul 1896 Nature is very sedulous in maintaining these differences. The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother The opportunities he had enjoyed for extending his knowledge of men and things, the sedulous practice of the art of composition, the study of purer models, had not been without their full effect. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works The authors of the new jurisprudence during the whole progress of its formation professed the most sedulous respect for the letter of the Code. Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society The other, Charles Utenhove, was sedulous on the side of the revolt and the Reformed religion. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation These representatives of the commercial, industrial, inventive, social, literary, political, moral and religious life of the times, should be preserved and handed down to posterity with sedulous care. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries It is a noteworthy fact that a large percentage of the leading stock brokers, bankers, active statesmen, and sedulous lawyers are bibliophiles. Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs Their domestic economy was regulated in the same spirit as their preceptorial: it consisted of the same sedulous exclusion of all that could border on pleasure, or give any exercise to choice. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works The part of the students in these publications must be carefully noted, because the service they rendered to their teacher seems to have been generally repaid by his sedulous attention to the pupils' education. Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society Though in this art nine-tenths may be rhetorical fiction and sedulous imitation, we ought not, on that account, to undervalue the enthusiasm inspiring the young poets. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation Here, too, there should be sedulous care, to work out the better habits. The Essentials of Spirituality Every now and then, Agatha could not help shivering and creeping closer to her husband; whenever she did so, he always turned round and wrapped her up with most sedulous care. Agatha's Husband A Novel But Pope was from boyhood a sedulous student of Milton, and a frequent borrower. Milton Far from withdrawing her husband from his studies, she was sedulous to animate him when he languished. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 His pulse just before had been tested, as usual, keenly and carefully, by his most sedulous and sympathetic medical attendant. Charles Dickens as a Reader Ruth was by nature far too reserved to welcome such an exhibition; but the two attitudes were so widely divided, Victor’s care in keeping them apart so sedulous, that she could not but be perturbed. The Fortunes of the Farrells So the days follow one another very much alike—studious, cheerful, sociable, sedulous. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 He was the most stay-at-home and sedulous of our ministers. The Masques of Ottawa In one direction it has stagnated in the sunless swamps of a theosophy, from which a cloud of sedulous ephemera still suck a little spiritual moisture. Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle With his wife, he took sedulous care of the education of his children, of whom there were no less than six at her early death in 1720. Woman's Work in Music But, on the other hand, the finer the natural voice the more sedulous the care required to preserve it in its pristine freshness to bloom. Caruso and Tetrazzini on the Art of Singing It was the age of the salons, and La Rochefoucauld tells us why it was that he became their sedulous associate. Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France The poise and reserve of his nature, his habit of sedulous self-control, were reasserted. The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee Say what they like, there is a pang in balked affection, for which no wealth, power, or place, watchful indulgence, or sedulous kindness, can compensate. Henrietta Temple A Love Story Take Stevenson, for instance: he says he “played the sedulous ape.” The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric But much I fear, that next autumn's prospects look brighter for the fowl than for their sedulous persecutors. Border and Bastille He was capable of excitement that never comes to the ordinary man, although he took sedulous care to hide that fact. The Way of Ambition Abdu’l-Ḥusayn began, through the sedulous circulation of dreams which he first invented and then interpreted, to excite the passions of a superstitious and highly inflammable population. God Passes By He greeted Dave cordially; his voice had a soft, sedulous, almost feminine quality which Dave had not noticed in their whispered conversation in the pool room. The Cow Puncher At one time he is almost fixed on the 'Red Horse,' but the blazing fire and sedulous kindness of the landlady of the 'Dun Cow' shake him, and his soul labours! History of English Humour, Vol. 2 Into this chaos of troubled politics, and conflicting interests, Aaron Burr came exploring, vigilant to note and sedulous to question. A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett The youthful poets, almost a trade-union in themselves, protected one another by their sedulous generosity. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters I shall not talk here, any more than anywhere else in this book, about the "sedulous ape" business. The Victorian Age in Literature He was speaking in his low, sedulous notes, and his words sent the girl's blood rushing in a strange mixture of gratification and anger. The Cow Puncher For all that, Richard was quite as sedulous as ever to advance our statesman's fortunes; loyalty is abstract, love concrete, and in a last analysis Richard was thinking on Dorothy and not upon the country. The President A novel We have been sedulous to subject and unite all the priests of the Orient throughout its whole extent to the see of Your Holiness.... Our Day In the Light of Prophecy One's plan of conduct with a multi-millionaire required to be thought out with sedulous care, and entered upon with circumspection. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Surely this is a branch of the public wealth that deserves sedulous cultivation. Essays in Natural History and Agriculture But his soft, sedulous voice had not lost the note of friendly confidence which had attracted Dave, perhaps against his better judgment, on the night of their first meeting. The Cow Puncher This sedulous devotion to the public morals kept him not only a trifle spare in figure, but lent an habitual manner of divine authority to his most trivial utterance. The Miller Of Old Church Entrance into these matters will never be obtained by the most sedulous seeking. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country We may take it for granted that with a man so sedulous as to all his duties there was no arrear of work when the accident took place. Phineas Finn The Irish Member Dr. Pond had given up his attempts to make conversation with him, and saw him with a slight exasperation which he was sedulous to conceal, so that he was altogether dependent on Mary's unfailing patience. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories Certainly, the sedulous manner in which the new tragedy had been advertised was not without result. Dead Man's Rock Then he bent his ear to sedulous attention and again he could hear the voice of Cavendish. The Strange Case of Cavendish This personal interest I take in every inmate of my garden, and this interest I have increased by sedulous watching. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country He affected to be giving only partial attention to the narrative; but though he seemed to be sedulous in his examination of the papyrus, he was listening intently. Masques & Phases It was a piece of acting which great natural genius, extensive powers of observation, peculiar sensibility of feeling, and those acquirements of art which are the results of sedulous study, combined to make perfect. Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag The work has been done with extreme conscientiousness in regard to accuracy and clearness of thinking and with sedulous care for justness and beauty of expression. President Wilson's Addresses Her first perception of the want of perfect oneness between Tito and herself dawns upon her through no change in him towards herself, but through his less sedulous attendance on her father. The Ethics of George Eliot's Works Is not the early and sedulous inculcation of just maxims of duty fell to be a great auxiliary to its performance in the circumstances in which it is necessary to apply them? The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic Mr. Pinero made plain the further fact that Stevenson, who was ever a sedulous ape of the masters he admired, had here set himself a bad pattern to copy. Inquiries and Opinions Mr. Thompson, watching his daily diminishing food supply with sedulous consideration, knew that the winter was drawing near, a season merciless in its rigor. Burned Bridges It was said that he still was very philosophical behind the scenes, but as we saw him in the House of Commons he was only an eager and a sedulous partisan. Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences Their nature, Physical use, Situation and many admirable Cures being exactly exprest in the subsequent Treatise of the learned Dr. Dean and the sedulous observations of the ingenious Michael Stanhope, Esquire. Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain I have thus played the sedulous ape to Hazlitt, to Lamb, to Wordsworth, to Sir Thomas Browne, to Defoe, to Hawthorne, to Montaigne. The Art of Public Speaking His father's deep but quiet kindness, his mother's sedulous love; his brothers, all that they had been to him—these, with their thousand heart-stirring associations, started into life before him again and again. The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three I am taking the waters of Bath with sedulous care. French and English A Story of the Struggle in America The flawless perfection of his work is due mainly to his mother's sedulous insistence on perfection within strict bounds. Side Lights "A woodpecker," he cried, directing momentarily a sedulous, clear eye on me. Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance By the most minute, sedulous, and perpetual attention to cleanliness, all noisome stench and all vermin are prevented, by which doubtless diseases are in a great measure lessened.E. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time The nature of the stage in the days of Shakespeare has been ascertained, by the sedulous exertions of his commentators. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 Felix, grave and decorous, as became the importance of the occasion, and his assistant, multiplied themselves into a thousand waiters, sedulous to anticipate the wants of the host and his guests. The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times In the sedulous cultivation of the Scottish spirit there is nothing alien, and, still more emphatically, nothing harmful, to the institutions under which we live. Scotland's Mark on America Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land, And, sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire’s artificial pride. A Wanderer in Holland They stole forward, one close behind the other, going but slowly, seeking with sedulous care to avoid any noise that would bring the savages upon them. The Forest Runners A Story of the Great War Trail in Early Kentucky Stevenson, in one of his essays, tells us how he "played the sedulous ape" to Hazlitt, Sir Thomas Browne, Montaigne, and other writers of the past. A Christmas Garland It does not quite seem to me that Mr. Max Müller makes his audience acquainted with these precautions of anthropologists, with their sedulous sifting of evidence, and watchfulness against the theoretical bias of observers. Modern Mythology But, as their literary remains prove, few or none of them prosecuted their legal studies with that sedulous devotion which the law, proverbially a jealous mistress, demands. Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 I was young, not hard of heart, sedulous to fold back to the uttermost the roseleaves of every delicate and poetic emotion, magnificently generous also, and set to play my life au grand seigneur. Audrey The importance of the benefit intended by it is so great, as to justify the most sedulous care to bring the principle within the range of a seaman's professional studies. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 Whenever he was in-doors he waited upon her with sedulous attention. The Doctor's Dilemma Meanwhile he began to watch Valentine carefully, and with the most sedulous attention to every detail and nuance of manner, look, and word. Flames The young man's sedulous blue eyes looked out of his pink face through his glasses at Mr. Direck, anxious for any light he could offer upon the atmospheric vagueness of this England. Mr. Britling Sees It Through I think the Amends is sufficiently made, if my most sedulous Endeavours are acceptable to you. Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. Certain kings are said to ply with frequent bumpers, and by wine make trial of a man whom they are sedulous to know whether he be worthy of their friendship or not. The Works of Horace But now he understood that to begin a romance was almost a separate and special art, a thing apart from the story, to be practiced with sedulous care. The Hill of Dreams At intervals the sedulous attendants went to and fro, besprinkling their heads with the scented contents of their vases. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I But for obedience to both of these injunctions, a heart at leisure from itself is needed to sympathise; and not less needed is a sedulous cultivation of the power of sympathy. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) If Sardou suffered through playing the sedulous ape to a histrionic artist, it is no less true that the same practice has been advantageous to M. Edmond Rostand. The Theory of the Theatre The most popular sovereigns were likewise the most sedulous patrons of learning. Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 But it is so continuous, so sedulous, that it becomes part of oneself. Hills and the Sea Antonyms: mortification, denial, restraint, non-indulgence. indulgent, a. forbearing, kind, lenient, lax, merciful. industrial science. technology, polytechnics. industrious, a. assiduous, diligent, sedulous, persistent, hard-working. Putnam's Word Book He remembered the sedulous hunting in every Jewish house for every scrap of leavened matter; the slaying of the Paschal Lamb, and the following feast. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) There the Rector performed two services a Sunday, celebrated the Holy Communion once a month, and preached his practical sermons, transcribed from his own execrable manuscript by a sedulous clerk. Sydney Smith La Mancha's Knight, though brave, was blind, Squire Sancho just a trifle credulous, But our dear Don was nobly kind, And in the cause of suffering sedulous. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 29, 1890 Then there was his intimacy with her first husband, which she had only discovered by chance, after the most sedulous concealment on his part. The Shadow of the Rope Next Boswell comes, for 'twas my lot To find at last one honest Scot With constitutional veracity; Yet garrulous he tells too much, On fancied failings prone to touch With sedulous loquacity. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 478, February 26, 1831 The brain, the sedulous, active brain, resumes its work to-day asking questions, probing problems. Witness for the Defense Such prophecies, he says, will, in the process of time, become matter of pleasantry even to "the sedulous housewife and the Rural Dean." Sydney Smith Ropes were spliced, or supplied by new rigging, the spars examined, and in fine all that watchfulness and sedulous care were observed, which are so necessary to the efficiency and safety of a ship. The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas Special delicacy in the conditions of the problem only implies more sedulous care in the solution. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 56, June, 1862 Miss Sherwood had placed Captain Garland by her side, and conversed almost exclusively with him; while the Baronet was kept in play by the sedulous flattery of Miss Danvers. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 She drew her cloak about her with sedulous care, as if in so doing she wrapped and hid from the whole world her own poor cunning. Mistress Penwick The proudest man will personate humility, the morosest learn to flatter, the laziest will be sedulous and active, where he is in pursuit of what he has much at heart. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 His biographer says of him that "he was liberal in almsgiving, sedulous in watching, devout in prayer, excellent in doctrine, ready in speech, holy in life." The Glories of Ireland Was the flock they had gathered with so much prayer and effort, and reared with such sedulous care, to be thus summarily divided and perhaps in consequence scattered? Forty Years in South China The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D. A sedulous scholar might often approach more nearly to the dead letter of Virgil, and give an exact, distinct, sober-minded idea of the meaning and scope of particular passages. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author Gissing was a sedulous artist; some of his books, it is true, are very hurried productions, finished in haste for the market with no great amount either of inspiration or artistic confidence about them. The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories Romans and Carthaginians were pretty much given to war: but no nations were more sedulous in the cult of Mammon. Famous Reviews The son of a Scotch minister, he gave early indications of an artistic turn; and though he was a negligent and inapt scholar, he was a sedulous drawer of faces and figures. Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance The want of a cavalry force had been particularly felt by the former, and he had been sedulous in the endeavor to supply this want, from the very first of his southern campaigns. The Life of Francis Marion 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. Frankenstein Mr. Rice encouraged him to be sedulous and industrious, urged him to carefulness and sobriety, and strengthened his religions impressions. Men of Invention and Industry It may interest the cynical to learn that I started my last haemorrhage by too sedulous attentions to my dear Bogue. Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 He was, nevertheless, careful to take advantage of all opportunities for improvement which came in his way, and continued as sedulous as before in studying and working. Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance He was sedulous and constant in his attention to the duties of his station, to which every other consideration yielded. The Life of Francis Marion I have thus played the sedulous ape to Hazlitt, to Lamb, to Wordsworth, to Sir Thomas Browne, to Defoe, to Hawthorne, to Montaigne, to Baudelaire and to Obermann. Memories and Portraits She wondered what sort of herbs they were which the old man was so sedulous to gather. The Scarlet Letter This sedulous imitation extends even to the praise of things inanimate: "When an Eden zephyr hovers O'er a slumb'ring cherub's lyre, Or when sighs of seraph lovers Breathe upon th' unfinger'd wire." The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 Lanyard, sedulous not to discover his interest by questioning the stewards, caught never a glimpse of its occupant. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf With the most sedulous industry and caution I endeavoured to render justice as well to the works of others as to my own. The Adventures of Hugh Trevor She prepared for him with sedulous care, not only her room and her clothes, but herself. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California Monnica, always sedulous to conform with the customs of her country and the traditions of her Church, fell in with this practice. Saint Augustin They are not retained in a temper of patient endurance and adherence, by the bond of principles which a sedulous and deep instruction alone could have enforced on them. An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance He fancied that this one knew him and was sedulous both to keep him in the corner of his eye and never to meet his regard directly. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf To these the sedulous Enoch carefully accompanied me; for no man pursued his own interest, as far as he understood it, with greater avidity. The Adventures of Hugh Trevor Paris, 1661.—It is remarkable that all the descriptions of the view from Mount Tabor appear to be borrowed from this sedulous Frenchman, whose work, in point of topography, is still unequalled. Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time If they hold their places for life, they naturally are less sedulous to avoid giving offense and less ready to tolerate a poor or tedious argument. The American Judiciary Full of pride and hope, he led her with sedulous politeness up the shining marble steps. Tales of Two Countries Jesus keeps His disciples now as He did then, by sedulous, patient, reiterated acts, so that they are safe from evil. Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI It provokes an innate self-confidence, while, at the same time, it sternly indicates the sedulous cultivation, the earnest effort, the toil, the agony, which are the conditions of ultimate success. Sketches and Studies Christ comes to each of you professing Christians, and asks, 'What fruit hast thou borne after all My sedulous husbandry?' Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark Hatching and spinning both suggest protracted, sedulous labour. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah He had been particularly sedulous to exclude all fashionable affectations; all false sentiment, false sensibility, and false romance. The Crayon Papers Endymion was still content with his cleanly and airy garret; still dined at Joe's; was still sedulous at his office, and always popular with his fellow clerks. Endymion I need not dwell upon the careful and sedulous preparation from pure spices which went to the making of the incense. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms Now, if a sedulous reader of the works of such writers should form his notions of real life from them, he would occasionally meet with rude shocks when he encountered the realities of that life. Friends in Council — First Series What a picture the parable gives of sedulous and patient labour for a far-off result! Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Lucretia therefore received the suggestions and proposals of Madarne Colonna with coldness and indifference; one might even say contempt, for she neither felt respect for this lady, nor was she sedulous to evince it. Coningsby Though ambitious, he was prudent; and, though born to please and be pleased, he was sedulous and self-restrained. Endymion So we have to prepare ourselves by sedulous purity if there is to be any life or power in our devotions. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms It enjoined painful study, unremitting practice, and sedulous observation of the style, and methods of the best masters. An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 1750-1830 Hunter in his official despatch commented on Bass's "perseverance against adverse winds and almost incessant bad weather," and complimented him upon his sedulous examination of inlets in search of secure harbours. The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders And now they were to meet on the eve of entering that world for which they had made so sedulous a preparation. Coningsby Lamartine was her favourite bard from the period when she first could feel: and she had subsequently improved her mind by a sedulous study of novels of the great modern authors of the French language. The History of Pendennis I was getting, in my quiet way, rather sedulous and self-reproachful about you. Erema — My Father's Sin A long correspondence with many learned friends, and a sedulous study of the latest geographers, especially German, taught me all that was known of mining in Arabia generally, and particularly in Midian. The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Why all that sedulous care to preserve the poor relics? Expositions of Holy Scripture As, therefore, the conduct of France hitherto exhibits nothing which ought to change or relax our measures of defense, the policy of extending and invigorating those measures demands our sedulous attention. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 1, part 2: John Adams After the publication of his work, he became one of the fashionable lions of London, but was very sensitive about his early career, and very sedulous to sink the posture-master in the traveller. A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 The point to be noted is the essential difference between the formless continuity of Getting Married, and the sedulous ordering and balancing of clearly differentiated parts, which went to the structure of a Greek tragedy. Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship In the mean time, I was no less sedulous to find out some employment, that might suit with my genius, and with my dependencies at home, render my life easy.' The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume III Like the Mosaic Law, under the sedulous care of the sacerdotal orders it ripened into a most burdensome ritualism. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations Thereafter she had never doubted him; he had barked at all twelve of Mr. Heatherbloom's predecessors—the dozen other answers to the advertisement; but here he was sedulous for fondlings from Horatio. A Man and His Money The proportion of gentlemen attending these evening meetings is very small, but often, as might be expected, a sprinkling of smart young clerks make this sedulous display of ribbons and ringlets intelligible and natural. Domestic Manners of the Americans They have been sedulous and invaluable in checking enemy propaganda. America's War for Humanity That her father, the magician Locuste, ever sedulous and affectionate, fed her with spoonsful of the honeyed froth that gathers under the tongues of asps? The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales The man who makes steady and painstaking application to whatever he is about, is sedulous. The Century Vocabulary Builder As they made their way through the crowd, Mr. Heatherbloom appeared most care-free and very sedulous of his companion's welfare, especially when they passed one or two loiterers who seemed eying the passengers rather closely. A Man and His Money His apostleship must be limited, for a time, to the vagabond hordes of Algonquins, who roamed the forests of the lower St. Lawrence, and of whose language he had been so sedulous a student. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century For him religion meant a way of life, a spiritual exaltation—not going to church, or saying prayers, or being sedulous in certain prescribed devotions. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography His deportment is quite noble, and in a style to announce conscious rank even to the most sedulous equaliser. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 Each male Pawnee was sedulous to omit no one of the strange warriors in his attentions, and of course the ceremony occupied some time. The Prairie Was it some faint ineffaceable savour of the Schurzian economics, peeping through in spite of all disguises, like the garlic in an Italian ragout, from under the sedulous cloak of Ricardo's theory of rent? Philistia But I have been sedulous to make them all know the contrary. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2 It is not, as we believe, without long, sedulous study, without learning much and unlearning much, that, for any man, the answer of such questions is even to be hoped. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life Agatha never left her father's side for a moment, and though she seldom spoke to him, she did a thousand little acts of sedulous attention, which showed him that she was near to him. La Vendée The plan is in accordance with that sedulous avoidance of the concentration of great masses of power in the same hands, which is a marked characteristic of the American federal Constitution. Considerations on Representative Government In his case there were no hereditary or family influences at work to constrain him to the sedulous study of one particular art. Thoughts out of Season Part I However deep a resentment she might be forced to hold against her husband, she would never fail in sedulous attention to his wants. Short Stories for English Courses Stevenson said that he arrived at flexibility of style by frank and unashamed imitation of other writers; he played, as he said, "the sedulous ape" to great authors. From a College Window Lily might certainly learn a great deal from Lady Alexandrina; and it was this conviction, no doubt, which made him so sedulous in pleasing that lady on the present occasion. The Small House at Allington He reaped the advantage of having played "the sedulous ape" to his patrons of the studios. The Fortunate Youth The insanity with which he struggled, and in many cases struggled very successfully, during many years, would probably have burst out much oftener but for the sedative effect of sedulous employment. The English Constitution He did look after her with sedulous care. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life As a child, he had been taught by sedulous elders that the little gentleman always closed doors behind him, and presumably his subconscious self was still under the influence. Indiscretions of Archie Greatly elated by this intelligence, the Countess tarried awhile in Florence, and was there delivered of two sons as like as possible to their father, whom she nurtured with sedulous care. The Decameron, Volume I Some of them may have been millionaires; others were certainly no more than their sedulous apes. The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million Together with the greenbottles, she is sedulous in her attendance on my pans. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography When the mind is not sufficiently opened to take pleasure in reflection, the body will be adorned with sedulous care; and ambition will appear in tattooing or painting it. Vindication of the Rights of Woman Janet had been sedulous in her attentions to Sir Louis, and had not troubled her mistress; but she had not had an easy time of it. Doctor Thorne Yet there was nothing finicky about their politeness: it had the Public School touch, and, though sedulous, was virile.� Howards End My sedulous attendance, during the best part of July, in front of the tiles hanging from the walls of the arch, allowed me to reckon the inoculations. The Mason-Bees Leading the life I did, of the sedulous, strained nurse, I had to do something to keep myself fit. The Good Soldier He had much to learn about boys, and he learnt not by direct observation—for which he believed he was unfitted—but by sedulous imitation of the more experienced masters. The Longest Journey Their other meeting had been in public, when, with a sedulous dread, both had behaved exactly as usual, and no word or manner had betrayed their altered relations. John Halifax, Gentleman There are three classes of persons who are deeply concerned with parish registers—namely, villains, antiquaries, and the sedulous readers, "parish clerks and others," of the second or "agony" column of the Times. Books and Bookmen As they still treated me with the same sedulous attention as before, I was utterly at a loss how to account for their singular conduct. Typee Next day, she moved into a small room in a lodging-house off the Edgware Road, and there for a whole week she was sedulous in the practice of her tricks. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Yet it is at least open to doubt whether he intended any impropriety, inasmuch as he all along is sedulous in his references to his predecessor. A History of Science — Volume 1 Now, however, I had noticed that he took Maud nearer to his heart, made her more often his companion, watching her with a sedulous tenderness—it was easy to guess why. John Halifax, Gentleman You will read and hear, no doubt, in your experience, that acting is in reality no art at all, that it is mere sedulous copying of nature, demanding neither thought nor originality. Little Masterpieces of Autobiography: Actors So sedulous was he in his search after the truth, that neither man nor woman could deny him confidence. A Book of Scoundrels He through the gate went back in bitterness; She that night woke and stirred, with no distress, Glad of her doing,—sedulous to be glad, Lest perhaps her foolish heart suspect that it was sad. New Poems There was little change in the cardinal; still dressed with sedulous care, his hair well arranged and curled, his person perfumed, he looked, owing to his extreme taste in dress, only half his age. Twenty Years After Here he had access to a small library, of which he made sedulous use. Select Poems of Sidney Lanier Taught by the fencers, he trained himself by sedulous practice to parrying and dealing blows. The Danish History, Books I-IX There was not a gaff from Newcastle to the Tay which he did not haunt with sedulous perseverance; nor was he confronted with failure, until his figure became a universal terror. A Book of Scoundrels The lieutenant was a diligent and watchful young man; he appeared to be examining his revolver with sedulous care. Rupert of Hentzau And a disciplined population, that rose at last by sedulous begging on birthdays and all convenient occasions to well over two hundred, of lead sailors and soldiers, horse, foot and artillery, inhabited this world. The New Machiavelli Repentance and atonement; nothing less will avail them after the storm has passed, and the sedulous preparation of defences and palliatives against the return of the storm. God the Invisible King He is no sedulous governess restraining and correcting the wayward steps of men. God the Invisible King |
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