This apple that in fancy we now pluck, and hardly need to pluck, from the burdened bough,think what a pedigree it has, what aeons of world-making and world-maturing must elapse, all the genius of God divinely assiduous, ere this could hang in ruddy and golden ripeness here!

As for myself, you will find me exceedingly assiduous in promoting your views, into which I shall enter with feelings higher than those of mere interest.

She was peculiarly assiduous in exhibiting the relics with which this, like all other celebrated shrines, abounds.