Example Sentences

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Far too weighty to lift, the logs were toilfully transported inch by inch on rollers with a crowbar as a lever.

From My Tropic Isle by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

Alas, it was not for me! and I pulled toilfully on.

From Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 by Reed, Talbot Baines

Indifferent to style, we do indulge in longings—longings pitifully weak—longings for the preservation of independence toilfully purchased during the poisonous years of the past.

From My Tropic Isle by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

For five long days we travelled slowly and toilfully on our way from the valley of Cuzco to that other where Golden Star lay sleeping beside the lake.

From The Romance of Golden Star ... by Griffith, George Chetwynd

While the Irish Convention was toilfully bringing to a close its eight months' career of futility, the British Empire was in the grip of the most terrible ordeal through which it has ever passed.

From Ulster's Stand For Union by McNeill, Ronald John