| 1. | Let painstaking accuracy be your aim for a long time. - from The Practice and Science Of Drawing by Harold Speed |
| 2. | Dismounting, I laid Powell upon the ground, but the most painstaking examination failed to reveal the faintest spark of life. - from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| 3. | Inglethorp turned to give some instructions about letters to Evelyn Howard, and her husband addressed me in his painstaking voic. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |
| 4. | Princess Mary well knew this painstaking expression of her father's. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 5. | The training of his eye and hand to the most painstaking accuracy of observation and record must be the student's aim for many years. - from The Practice and Science Of Drawing by Harold Speed |
| 6. | A painstaking police officer, considering the presence of a corpse in his excellency's courtyard unseemly, told the dragoons to take it away. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 7. | is that which has also compelled me to the utmost painstaking in seeking out and diligently investigating the cause of so great and stupendous an effect. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 8. | the plan may at first sight seem to be modelled on the lines of Mr Craik's painstaking condensation but the coincidences are either inevitable or involuntary. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 9. | He announced his presence by that gentle Rumboldian cough which so many have tried unsuccessfully to imitate--short, painstaking yet withal so characteristic of the man. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |