You see, down on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, where Maude Preston and William Henry Montgomery were to the manor born, they had sought each other's company so assiduously and for so long that in the length and breadth of Accomac-from Chincoteague to Great Machipongo-every man and woman regarded it as a sure thing that Maude and William Henry would hit it off for a marriage.
"The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories"
Charles Weathers Bump
Herzen himself tells us in his autobiography how assiduously they read everything that came from his pen, how they devoted nights and weeks to clearing up the meaning of single passages in his writings, and how greedily they devoured every new pamphlet that issued from the German press on any part of his system.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
His first books were selling steadily, and he worked assiduously to make hay while the sun was still above the horizon.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson