toilful

Example Sentences

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The day is over, the day which has been so hard and toilful even for the children,—and with the night comes rest and play.

From Tales of the Punjab by Steel, Flora Annie

On my eighth birthday, with bag and baggage complete, we all made the toilful journey down into Devonshire, and I was a town-child no longer.

From Father and Son: a study of two temperaments by Gosse, Edmund

But when he came, after a long, toilful walk, to the village, and the square, alas! there was the clown, doing his silly tricks for the crowd.

From Stories to Tell to Children by Bryant, Sara Cone

And yet it all depends on the toilful conquest of a subtle and intricate art.

From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Dyer, Frank Lewis

Instead of the glittering line of mailed warriors, we behold the patient train of the toilful muleteer, slowly moving along the skirts of the mountain.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert