toilsome
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Toilsome culture is the price of great success, and the slow growth of a great character is one of its special necessities.
From Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power by Marden, Orison Swett
“It sounds so lovely what our fathers did, And what we do is, as it was to them, Toilsome and incomplete.”
From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Collier, Price
Toilsome years they were, but doubtless full of rich reward.
From Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound by Denny, Emily Inez
Toilsome, weary days succeeded one another, broken by restless nights, yet ever they pushed westward, slowly, laboriously.
From Civilization Tales of the Orient by La Motte, Ellen Newbold
Toilsome and full of peril was this march.
From The Life of Francis Marion by Simms, William Gilmore
Vocabulary lists containing toilsome
Lee Surrenders to Grant (1865)
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Selected Short Stories of H.G. Wells
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Stories of Ourselves
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