1 On her right, her only neighbor was a studious looking lad absorbed in a newspaper.
2 Her figure was elegant, and she walked well; but Darcy, at whom it was all aimed, was still inflexibly studious.
3 I visited many other apartments, but shall not trouble my reader with all the curiosities I observed, being studious of brevity.
4 Thus, gentle reader, I have given thee a faithful history of my travels for sixteen years and above seven months: wherein I have not been so studious of ornament as of truth.
5 Yet, here I am at the wars--whom God never intended to be other than a studious country gentleman.
6 Selma was a studious girl, who had not much tolerance for giddy things like Tiny and Lena; but they always spoke of her with admiration.
7 But we've all heard what a studious young man you've got to be, and I felt bashful.
8 If I am to lodge with anyone, I should prefer a man of studious and quiet habits.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES 9 I smiled at the notion; it seemed to me at the time to be humorous; and I made my preparations with the most studious care.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE 10 Much of this development he may have owed to his studious life in Paris, where he had become acquainted with ethical systems popular at the time.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment 11 About five-and-twenty boys were studiously engaged at their books when we went in, but they rose to give the Doctor good morning, and remained standing when they saw Mr. Wickfield and me.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 16. I AM A NEW BOY IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE 12 I pondered on those words, even while I was studiously attending to what followed, as if they had some particular interest, or some strange application that I could not divine.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 45. MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT'S PREDICTIONS 13 She noticed, too, that when she had found a Catholic priest with her, Madame Stahl had studiously kept her face in the shadow of the lamp-shade and had smiled in a peculiar way.
14 Levin had seen him already at the meeting on the previous day, and he had studiously avoided him, not caring to greet him.
15 He felt himself exalted to unattainable heights, from which he studiously lowered himself so as not to wound the people he was talking to.