toilful
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These were our farewells to each other in this world, a fitting finish to the tragedies of our toilful and thankless lives.
From The Trail of the Tramp by Leon Ray Livingston
The clustered houses, with an added softness from the light burning mellow on their roofs and on their white walls, increase the happy impression that the world is not necessarily hurried and toilful.
From The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
Hard likeness to the toilful apes of youth He bore at times, and tempted the sly smile; And not on her soft lips was it descried.
From Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith
The march continued to be toilful and difficult.
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving
So the toilful good soul kept them at her knee for the next hour or two, while they looked through all the pictures in the old family Bible.
From The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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