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)
At dawn we resumed our toilful march, and travelled until four o'clock the following morning, when we reached an extensive valley, where grass and water were plentiful.
From The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate by Houghton, Eliza Poor Donner
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
When, by a slow and toilful progress, the family graveyard has been reached, the lowering of the coffin into the grave—sometimes a huge circular opening—is the culminating point of the many days of excitement.
From Village Life in China A Study in Sociology by Smith, Arthur H.
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)
