toilsomely
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But life in the swarming cities, Shanghai, Canton, Peiping, Hankow and the capital, Nanking, went toilsomely and safely on.
From Time Magazine Archive
There come times when the novelist doesn't know what happened, and must toilsomely explore his consciousness by way of finding out.
From Recollections of a Varied Life by George Cary Eggleston
He spent the day on the high ground; at times toilsomely picking a way across banks of stones buried in snow that hid the dangerous gaps between them.
From Prescott of Saskatchewan by W. Herbert Dunton
With our pack-ropes we hauled the various articles first into the little room at the stair-foot, and then toilsomely carried them to the heights above.
From The Aztec Treasure-House by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier
By the one way you can glide easily down; by the other you may climb toilsomely, but surely up.
From The Parables of Our Lord by William Arnot
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