Sentence examples for industrious life from inspiring English sources

He leads an unusually industrious life.

Vidal, who lived a long and industrious life, died yesterday, in Los Angeles.

After three years, during which he worked and lived an honest, industrious life, he was arrested and charged with assault.

Despite the honours that came to him, he continued to lead a simple and industrious life, surrounded by his family and a few friends.

Rick was a Vietnam vet fighting an ongoing battle with unemployment and alcoholism; Bill led what close friends called "a quiet, industrious life".'14 The Whiteheads and the Sterns did not travel in the same social, employment, or consumer circles.

At a recent appeal hearing, Clifford's barrister, Richard Horwell QC, told the three judges that his last offence was committed 29 years ago, "since when he has led an industrious life, and devoted a considerable part of his time to charitable works for which he has raised substantial funds".

But perhaps that's no odder than the whole of Swainson's industrious human life reduced to the name of a nondescript thrush, uttered almost without thinking by generations of birders.

The climate suited him; he led an industrious and active life; and, when he died suddenly, it was of a cerebral hemorrhage, not of the long-feared tuberculosis.

I want him to feel replete, to take pride in his industrious, searching, reflective life and to relish the leisure of his twilight.

His peripatetic life and industrious habits enabled him to leave his mark in Venice, where he was born in about 1480, the Veneto, Bergamo in Lombardy and the Marche.

CREDIT for inventing the string quartet tends to be laid at the feet of Joseph Haydn, that industrious, fecund genius whose life's work counts among the crowning achievements of the 18th-century Austrian Empire.