toilful
Example Sentences
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To travel a couple of months is a sufficient reward for a thousand toilful days.
From Among the Forces by Henry White Warren
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 E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
The march continued to be toilful and difficult; on one day it did not exceed two miles, having to cut a passage over a mountain.
From Life of George Washington — Volume 01 by Washington Irving
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 Leon Ray Livingston
An idyllic passage in Darmesteter's toilful scholar life was his tender friendship with the gifted English woman, A. Mary F. Robinson.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
