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  • Staff had gone off duty at one o'clock, the indefatigible Mrs Thripps went at half past three, and one student nurse had gone after her dinner; any moment now the faithful Bert, nudged by an invisible union, would down tools.

    Cruise To A Wedding Neels, Betty 1974

  • The passing of yet another staunch and indefatigible worker, Miss

    Letters from the Guardian to Australia and New Zealand 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927

  • In 1427, though now an old man, he was as indefatigible as ever, and had the maps of Ptolemy drawn from a Greek original, but on a diminished scale, and arranged with Latin terminology, to go with his Latin Ptolemy.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • Her coachman, too, had been indefatigible; the promise of special and rich reward had no doubt helped to keep him up, and he had literally burned the ground beneath his mistress 'coach wheels.

    The Scarlet Pimpernel 1905

  • So he shortened his bench in the final seven minutes, from 18 players to just 10, led by the indefatigible Ian Laperriere.

    phillyBurbs.com: Home RSS feed 2010

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