toilful

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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 Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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 Livingston, Leon Ray

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)

We had won disregard of all the bother and contradictions, the vanities and absurdities of the toilful, wayward, human world, and had acquired a glorious sense of irresponsibleness and independence.

From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

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