Sentence examples for an industrious man from inspiring English sources

Several shopkeepers said they knew Mr. Vahidipour as an industrious man who worked more than 10 hours a day, at least six days a week, often locking the store by himself after the sun had set.

He was the best company in the whole world; he had read widely and because he was an industrious man and filled with curiosity, he hoped to read much more.

"Then he asked himself if it was not a serious thing that he, a workman, could not have found work and that he, an industrious man, should have been without bread" (p. 88 of our edition of Les Miserables).

Gore remembers this, about Jean Valjean: "Then he asked himself if it was not a serious thing that he, a workman, could not have found work and that he, an industrious man, should have been without bread".

An industrious man [graphic].

Someone less kind (or more rigorous) might call it lazy -- a surprising trait in an obviously industrious man.

Pennant was an incredibly industrious man.

"His nature seemed to change," Vasari wrote, "from a hardworking, industrious man he became slothful and negligent, and having labored constantly when he was competing with Raffaello and his fortune was low, he ceased to work as soon as he had enough".

But one 21st-century quality that Nadin, a briskly friendly, relentlessly industrious man, seems to lack entirely is a sense of irony.

Michael had succeeded in starting over as an industrious working man.

Therefore, an industrious young man, if he put his mind to it, could add a DC adapter from Radio Shack.