toilful
Example Sentences
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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 E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
The day is over, the day which has been so hard and toilful even for the children,—and with the night comes rest and play.
From Tales of the Punjab by Flora Annie Steel
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
When, by a slow and toilful progress, the family graveyard has been reached, the lowering of the coffin into the grave—sometimes a huge circular opening—is the culminating point of the many days of excitement.
From Village Life in China A Study in Sociology by Arthur H. Smith
The prairie, for all its beauties, spelt toilful days and bitter disappointment for him.
From The Forfeit by Ridgwell Cullum
