toilful

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Where all were toilful laborers, and few possessed more than a sufficiency of worldly goods to provide for the necessities of the day, there was no room for the distinctions of rank.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

With the other division, Greene made a march of toilful difficulty through a barren country, to Hicks' Creek, in Chesterfield district, on the east side of the Pedee River, opposite the Cheraw Hills.

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

And yet it all depends on the toilful conquest of a subtle and intricate art.

From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Dyer, Frank Lewis

The wild flowers were no longer the mere ornaments of the fields, or the resorts of the toilful bee; they were the lurking-places of fairies.

From The Crayon Papers by Irving, Washington

I grasp'd the laurels of heroic strife, The thousand perils of a soldier's life; Obedient in the ranks each toilful day!

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac