toilful

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The prairie, for all its beauties, spelt toilful days and bitter disappointment for him.

From The Forfeit by Cullum, Ridgwell

In the side ca�on down which we worked our sublime and toilful way it was easy to see the work done.

From Among the Forces by Warren, Henry White

An idyllic passage in Darmesteter's toilful scholar life was his tender friendship with the gifted English woman, A. Mary F. Robinson.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

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

On my eighth birthday, with bag and baggage complete, we all made the toilful journey down into Devonshire, and I was a town-child no longer.

From Father and Son: a study of two temperaments by Gosse, Edmund