toilful

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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)

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

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)

The march continued to be toilful and difficult.

From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Irving, Washington

During their slow, toilful walks she appeared to be dragging with her for a penance the burden of that infirm bulk.

From To-morrow by Conrad, Joseph