| There are no tasks that require the conscientious and painstaking effort of sedulous monographers. |
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| He was the most sedulous flycatcher in American history, and by long odds the most successful. |
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| It required several weeks of sedulous persuasion by Lenin before he won the Bolshevik Party Central Committee to his view. |
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| It is tempting to see his sedulous gathering of eminent friendships as a counterpart of his manuscript collecting. |
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| Certainly, no one should think about playing the sedulous ape to him. |
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| Leading the life I did, of the sedulous, strained nurse, I had to do something to keep myself fit. |
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| She wondered what sort of herbs they were which the old man was so sedulous to gather. |
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| The Scots have always been a fiercely independent people, but it surprised me how far this sedulous process of separation has gone already. |
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| Were I to open the window, I could easily start up a conversation with the tenants, those sedulous civil servants who work, while I sleep, till the wee hours of the morning. |
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| It could not have been easy to assemble so much information from so many far-flung sources, involving also sedulous opera and operatic-movie frequentation, and get it all into two such compact books. |
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| Of these the violin, on account probably of its portable nature, is most ordinarily selected, and the votary after a series of years passed in sedulous practice, usually attains a certain ghastly facility of execution. |
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