toilful
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The march continued to be toilful and difficult.
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 Washington Irving
The prairie, for all its beauties, spelt toilful days and bitter disappointment for him.
From The Forfeit by Ridgwell Cullum
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 Isaac Disraeli
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 Washington Irving
The march continued to be toilful and difficult; on one day it did not exceed two miles, having to cut a passage over a mountain.
From Life of George Washington — Volume 01 by Washington Irving
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