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Definition of the day : « more diligent »

  • adj persevering, hard-working
Example sentences :
  • This perhaps made him the more diligent in his endeavors to serve her.
  • Extract from : « The Princess and the Goblin » by George MacDonald
  • The Scribe is more diligent in other men's business than they are in their own.
  • Extract from : « The Letters of Cassiodorus » by Cassiodorus (AKA Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator)
  • Natives more reconciled to the Europeans, and more diligent in procuring slaves, ibid.
  • Extract from : « Some Historical Account of Guinea, Its Situation, Produce, and the General Disposition of Its Inhabitants » by Anthony Benezet
  • The vicar engages to look out for another schoolmaster, and be more diligent in his attentions to Muck Lane.
  • Extract from : « Stray Studies from England and Italy » by John Richard Greene
  • Here and there one more diligent burnishes his arms, and another grooms his horse.
  • Extract from : « Life of Schamyl » by John Milton Mackie
  • I take on myself to say there never have been two more diligent evangelists than were Bro.
  • Extract from : « Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler » by Pardee Butler
  • Never had a village schoolmaster a more diligent pupil than he, and rarely one that improved more rapidly.
  • Extract from : « Her Benny » by Silas Kitto Hocking
  • If you want any one of these accommodations, be the more diligent in such an improvement of the rest, as may make up your want.
  • Extract from : « A Christian Directory (Part 2 of 4) » by Richard Baxter
  • No men were more subtle or more diligent in corroding the foundation of these bulwarks than the disciples of Granvelle.
  • Extract from : « The Rise of the Dutch Republic, Volume I.(of III) 1555-66 » by John Lothrop Motley
  • Indeed, we should make a more diligent inquiry into the nature of confined air.
  • Extract from : « Novum Organum » by Francis Bacon