Industrious

Examples

• And should you like to be always taken care of here, if you were industrious and deserving? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I don't know about that,' Miss Wren retorted; 'but you had better by half set up a pen-wiper, and turn industrious, and use it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, _At the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• There was plenty of leisure on the two daily runs, even for an industrious boy, and thus he found time to transfer his laboratory from the cellar and re-establish it on the train. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She looks clean and industrious, Mr. Moore remarked. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Why, if we were all as industrious as you, little Busy-Body, we should begin to work as soon as we could crawl, and there would be a bad thing! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The expense of a great lord feeds generally more idle than industrious people. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He is industrious, patiently adaptable to rank and file, equable and moderate in capacity and requirement. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It is the sober and industrious poor who generally bring up the most numerous families, and who principally supply the demand for useful labour. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In cheap years it is pretended, workmen are generally more idle, and in dear times more industrious than ordinary. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Nor is it a wonder, that politicians should be very industrious in inculcating such notions, where their interest is so particularly concerned. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Of all these industrious researches Miss Crawley had the full benefit. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• They asked me to be industrious and faithful, and I promised to be so. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I can be well recommended by all the neighbors, and I hope I can be industrious and patient, and teach myself while I teach others. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• And it would be as pretty a turn of things as could be that he should hold the place in a good industrious way after all--by his taking to business. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• For four years I bind myself an industrious apprentice to all you can teach me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He was as vivacious as ever and told us he was very industrious, but I was not easy in my mind about him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Her friend,' resumed the old man, motioning towards Lizzie; 'and as industrious as virtuous. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But Tom is so steady, industrious, and pious. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The three young women, who appeared to be very industrious and comfortable, raised their heads to look at me, and then went on with their work. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He was an industrious student both of mathematics and history, his memory was prodigiously good, and he made copious note-books which still exist. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But there is no country in which the whole annual produce is employed in maintaining the industrious. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• If he will be industrious and frugal, 'tis ten to one but he gets rich, for he seems to have spirit and activity. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• He acquired a habit of idleness on the expedition, but begins, of late, to apply himself to business, and, I hope, will become an industrious man. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Sally grows a fine girl, and is extremely industrious with her needle, and delights in her work. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• As a rich man is likely to be a better customer to the industrious people in his neighbourhood, than a poor, so is likewise a rich nation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Was he--I don't know how to shape the question-- murmured my guardian, industrious? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• So much in stock, briskly turned by an industrious man, produces great advantage. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Nor even Mr Inspector, as having been trepanned into an industrious hunt on a false scent. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It is with industrious nations, who are advancing in the acquisition of riches, as with industrious individuals. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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