toilful

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That toilful midnight, at the close of the last great passion-day of the bullion-worshippers, will be ever memorable for its anxieties and unsatisfying anguish.

From Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by McCabe, James Dabney

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

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 Disraeli, Isaac

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

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