sedulous formal

She wondered what sort of herbs they were, which the old man was so sedulous to gather.

Thus she kept the money, but it was he who ran the errands, anxiously sedulous.

She was sedulous in not sleeping with her lovers: she married six of them.

He had been most sedulous as a parochial clergyman.

His communion services were remarkable for their fervour, and he was a sedulous pastor.

Such illusions do in truth haunt me, nor am I very sedulous to banish them.

The ape is too distant to be sedulous.

But there were those who attributed this primarily to sedulous emulation on Braque's part.

He is no sedulous governess restraining and correcting the wayward steps of men.

Recalling myself from such conjectures, I studied with sedulous care the stellar pile and the soil around it.

If he were simply a sedulous copyist, we should not look twice at Cavalcaselle's drawings.

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.

Cousin Edwin, who had undoubtedly been the source of this information, buttered his roll with sedulous concentration.

Baker dismisses this sedulous insanity with what family newspapers call a barnyard epithet.

But if he gave me a chance I would try, and desperately, through sedulous service and unstinting love, to make myself well worth remembering to him!

A man who'd once advertised himself as 'a sedulous artiste, whose acquisitions are legion.'

But, while health lasted, Wilson was sedulous in administering the discipline through the spiritual courts, and there was an increase of clerical cases.

He's so sedulous to singe always if prumpted, the mirthprovoker !

I, carrying a notebook, making phrases, had recorded merely changes; a shadow, I had been sedulous to take note of shadows.

"The sedulous ape," he murmured.

I hear our new censors are going to examine the sentorial rolls the way a sedulous nursemaid looks for nits."

Some of Butler's conspicuousness can be attributed to Columbia's location in the nation's media capital and some to his own sedulous courting of the press.

And this is art: not with the trumpets and flourishes of the gallery, but with the slow, sedulous, persistent friction of one thing against another.

It may interest the cynical to learn that I started my last haemorrhage by too sedulous attentions to my dear Bogue.

Maybe that was it: an attempt on the part of sedulous young sprinters like Bill Black to appear regimented, part of some colossal machine.