Read full poem →JOHN HEWET AND SARAH DREW,
AN INDUSTRIOUS YOUNG MAN,
AND VIRTUOUS MAIDEN OF THIS PARISH;
Dictionary Entry
Hard-working and persistent.
In a Sentence
“I was very industrious in my effort to learn unicycle riding.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. industriouspeople industriousman industrioushabits industriousclasses industriousmen industrious
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Poetry examples for “industrious”
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Read full poem →God permits industrious Angels --
Afternoons -- to play --
Read full poem →_Industrious of the needle and the chart,
They run full sail to their Japonian mart;
Read full poem →Of day and night ; which needs not thy belief,
If earth, industrious of herself, fetch day
Travelling east, and with her part averse
Read full poem →for the composer in little more than two days; and may therefore rather
be considered as an industrious effort of gratitude, than of genius. In
justice to the composer, it may likewise be right to inform the public,
Read full poem →April, 1852. He was a successful merchant at Brookfield Centre.
Always an industrious, law abiding citizen.
Read full poem →and firesides; shunning notoriety; not aspiring to political or
other public favors; but faithful, honest, industrious and econ-
omical. The rogue’s gallery or the police reports are the last
Read full poem →24. _The busy murmur_. Cf. Milton, _P. R._ iv. 248: "bees'
industrious murmur."
Read full poem →Hyblean murmurs of poetic thought
Industrious in its joy, in vales and glens,
Native or outland, lakes and famous hills!