toilful

Example Sentences

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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 Irving, Washington

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

These were our farewells to each other in this world, a fitting finish to the tragedies of our toilful and thankless lives.

From The Trail of the Tramp by Livingston, Leon Ray

But when he came, after a long, toilful walk, to the village, and the square, alas! there was the clown, doing his silly tricks for the crowd.

From Stories to Tell to Children by Bryant, Sara Cone

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)