| 1. | To wearie him with my assiduous crie. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | After assiduous years surveying results, preparing for departure. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | "'"For two days after this Brunton was most assiduous in his attention to his duties. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 4. | She hastened to ring the bell and when the tray came, she proceeded to arrange the cups, spoons, c., with assiduous celerity. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 5. | Mary would sit and watch me by the hour together then she would take lessons and a docile, intelligent, assiduous pupil she made. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 6. | de Morcerf is one of the most assiduous peers at the Luxembourg, a general renowned for theory, but a most mediocre amateur of art. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 7. | Dohkturov, a little man, sat opposite Weyrother, with an assiduous and modest mien, and stooping over the outspread map conscientiously studied the dispositions and the unfamiliar locality. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 8. | Cavalcanti the elder had returned to his service, not in the army of his majesty the Emperor of Austria, but at the gaming-table of the baths of Lucca, of which he was one of the most assiduous courtiers. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 9. | The Military Governor of Moscow, who had been assiduous in sending aides-de-camp to inquire after the count's health, came himself that evening to bid a last farewell to the celebrated grandee of Catherine's court, Count Bezukhov. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |