toils

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"There is a large family of these Toils," remarked the stranger.

From Little Daffydowndilly (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Toils may demand our time and energies; let us give them; labor creates strength and imparts knowledge.

From Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. by Weaver, George Sumner

My Obligations to Moabdar were all cancell’d, and I was free to be the Bride of Zadig; but instead of that, I fell into the Toils of a Barbarian.

From Zadig Or, The Book of Fate by Voltaire

Some ladies exchange their single condition, in the hope of escaping thereby the Toils and Cares 184of life.

From The Young Maiden by Muzzey, A. B. (Artemas Bowers)

Toils and years, passions and cares, had wasted his strength at last, and his fiery soul could bear him up no longer.

From Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV by Parkman, Francis