| 1. | Not sedulous by Nature to indit. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | She wondered what sort of herbs they were which the old man was so sedulous to gather. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 3. | He now begs them to search with the most sedulous care, and should any of the same quality be left, to forward it to him at once. - from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 4. | It had been her care which provided me a companion in Clerval--and yet a man is blind to a thousand minute circumstances which call forth a woman's sedulous attention. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |