toilful

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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)

Where all were toilful laborers, and few possessed more than a sufficiency of worldly goods to provide for the necessities of the day, there was no room for the distinctions of rank.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

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

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 Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

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)