toilful

Example Sentences

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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

One had foraged a caterpillar in bulk and weight beyond its flight strength, and was, therefore, compelled to haul it along the toilful earth.

From Tropic Days by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

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

Another toilful day brought him to the crest of the Cordillera, a bleak tract where the only vegetation was a dry, yellow grass which grew up to the snow-line.

From The Red True Story Book by Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice)

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