laborious
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Laborious stop-motion and model effects gave way to computer-generated images.
From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2015
The Quality of Fancy Light and Airy, She Will Not Yield to the Laborious Wooer In literature, as in life, the quality of fancy is rare—as rare as radium.
From Time Magazine Archive
She, mingling with all works of men, Caused many a pang to Jove, who saw his son Laborious tasks servile, and of his birth155 Unworthy, at Eurystheus' will enjoin'd.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William
Laborious, delicate and difficult was the operation requisite to keep the disabled ship from certain wreck by being cast upon the rocks by the rising tide.
From The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch by Sue, Eug?ne
Laborious seedsmen—they gather every germ of evil; and laborious sowers—at home they strew them far and wide!
From Gamblers and Gambling by Beecher, Henry Ward
Vocabulary lists containing laborious
Excerpt from "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
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The Great Gilly Hopkins
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Vocabulary Video Contest (2013) - List 1
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