toilful

Example Sentences

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To travel a couple of months is a sufficient reward for a thousand toilful days.

From Among the Forces by Warren, Henry White

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)

The clustered houses, with an added softness from the light burning mellow on their roofs and on their white walls, increase the happy impression that the world is not necessarily hurried and toilful.

From The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

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

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