And yet even the facts the authors have so assiduously collected leave significant gaps.

The dead skin flakes were assiduously collected for analysis.

He assiduously collects shards that suggest a broken past, a tormented present, a weird future.

Mr. Nikulin assiduously collected jokes and stories as well.

The insect can now spend the calories that it so assiduously collected and stored when it was a larva.

Bolton's chief interest was in fungi, which he assiduously collected, carried home in his vasculum and illustrated.

He said Lilly had assiduously collected and notified doctors about reports of side effects of Prozac; there have been relatively few.

Nowadays many managers, pursued by furies, spend the pre-game hours assiduously collecting baseballs in a bucket behind second base.

Horrified, Mr. Stevens began assiduously collecting - or, more precisely, not discarding - as many different cups as he could find.

But however one interprets the evidence Montefiore has so assiduously collected and vividly presented, no future biography of Stalin will be able to ignore this intimate portrait.