toilful
Example Sentences
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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 Arthur H. Smith
To travel a couple of months is a sufficient reward for a thousand toilful days.
From Among the Forces by Henry White Warren
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
That toilful midnight, at the close of the last great passion-day of the bullion-worshippers, will be ever memorable for its anxieties and unsatisfying anguish.
From Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe
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
