Word Finder - industrious

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Hard-working and persistent.

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I was very industrious in my effort to learn unicycle riding.

He said she was very industrious and happy.

His clear mind and industrious habits drew him to questions of finance.

They have the reputation of being neither industrious nor intelligent.

Hardy, simple and industrious, fond of music, kind-hearted, and with a strangely artistic taste in dress, these people possess in a wonderful degree the secret of cheerful contentment.

The colonists whom he settled upon his grant (1630) were industrious, and "Beverwyck" became increasingly prosperous.

They have shown themselves to be industrious, thrifty and lawabiding.

They are also more hardy and industrious than those living nearer the equator.

He retired from public life in 1870, but was unceasingly industrious with his pen.

The people are peaceful and industrious, and chiefly occupied with agriculture.

The people are industrious, and many of them seek employment as labourers in the Morea and Asia Minor.

The soil was extremely fertile, and teemed with an industrious population.

He is industrious in collecting facts, careful and impartial in stating them; his judgment is sound, his reflections generally acute, his conceptions of the general march and movement of things not unworthy of the great events he has recorded.

They are industrious and abstemious in their lives, and when living up to the standard of their faith they present one of the nearest approaches to the realization of the Christian ideal which have ever been attained.

The natives, a mixed Polynesian and Melanesian people of Samoan speech, are the most industrious in the Pacific, and many of the young men go as labourers to other islands.

The people are industrious, and devote themselves to agriculture, but from the geological structure of the country, and from the insecurity of property, regular husbandry is limited to comparatively few spots.

The Chinese are both numerous and industrious.

They, and also the inhabitants of central Italy, are more industrious than the inhabitants of the southern provinces, who have by no means recovered from centuries of misgovernment and oppression, and are naturally more hot-blooded and excitable, but less stable, capable of organization or trustworthy.

In spite of his weak health, he was indefatigably industrious.

Aargau is an industrious and prosperous canton, straw-plaiting, tobacco-growing, silk-ribbon weaving, and salmon-fishing in the Rhine being among the chief industries.

There was also a very considerable caravan trade in native goods which the industrious Hausa population carried for great distances through the western and central states of the Sudan.

An industrious colonist could purchase a small farm on the estate and make himself independent in two years.

Perhaps no more industrious compiler of knowledge ever lived.

They are not tramps, but steady, industrious men, with few bad habits and few ambitions.

The inhabitants are described as moral, religious, hospitable to strangers, well mannered and industrious, healthy and long lived.

Turner's prolific research interests made him an equally industrious writer and editor.

One thing no one ever called him was lazy, and today's schedule was particularly industrious.

The industrious Prince Albert even designed a Balmoral tartan.

If you are very industrious, you can purchase a quilt top and fashion it into a lined nightgown yourself.

All this time the brutal work of the Blood Council went on, as did the exodus of thousands upon thousands of industrious and well-to-do citizens, and with each year the detestation felt for Alva and his rule steadily increased.

It was found that the government by Boule and Ecclesia did not mean popular control in the full sense; it meant government by the leisured classes, inasmuch as the industrious farmer or herdsman could not leave his work to give his vote at the Ecclesia, or do his duty as a councillor.

They are an intelligent and industrious people, growing their own crops, manufacturing their own cloth and mats, and building their own boats, while many read Arabic more or less fluently, although still believers in magic and witchcraft.

While the discovery of bromine and the preparation of many of its compounds was his most conspicuous piece of work, Balard was an industrious chemist on both the pure and applied sides.

Apaches, Pimas, Papagoes have been employed by the United States on great irrigation works, and have proved industrious and faithful labourers.

And, aided by the king, who is represented to have been an industrious student and translator, he wrote the first books by which Buddhism became known in his native land.

The better types are hardy, orderly and agriculturally industrious.

They are industrious and skilful agriculturists, metal-workers and weavers.

If an industrious man suffered a loss, he delighted to make it good; if the harvest was bad, he was liberal in the remission of tithes.

They are of a sturdy, patient type, like their Indian ancestors, and are sufficiently industrious to carry on many of the small industries and occupations, and to meet the labour requirements of the inhabited plateau districts.

The country depopulated as the result of this delusion was afterwards peopled by European settlers, among whom were members of the German legion which had served with the British army in the Crimea, and some 2000 industrious North German emigrants, who proved a valuable acquisition to the colony.

Father Sirmond was a most industrious scholar, and his criticisms were as enlightened as was possible for a man living in those times.

According to his own confession he was far from industrious, and stood very low in his class.

The industrious German settlers were welcomed by the Polish nobles and were the founders of most of the towns, in which they lived after their own customs and were governed by their own laws.

The Latuka are industrious and especially noted for skill as smiths.

They are clever agriculturists, naturally peaceful and industrious.

Drunkenness is very prevalent in many parts of the island; and it can hardly be said of many of the Malagasy that they are very industrious.

In south Borgu the people are agricultural but not industrious or inclined for trade.

According to Lilly, this pale violet star sharpens the understanding, memory, and makes men industrious.

In climates and regions removed from the tropics only the exceedingly industrious survived.

Why not extend the suffrage to the industrious people - the working people.

Cibrario was a good example of the loyal, industrious, honest Piedmontese aristocrat of the old school.