toilful

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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 Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

We had won disregard of all the bother and contradictions, the vanities and absurdities of the toilful, wayward, human world, and had acquired a glorious sense of irresponsibleness and independence.

From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

Another toilful day brought him to the crest of the Cordillera, a bleak tract where the only vegetation was a dry, yellow grass which grew up to the snow-line.

From The Red True Story Book by Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice)

Instead of the glittering line of mailed warriors, we behold the patient train of the toilful muleteer, slowly moving along the skirts of the mountain.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert

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