toilsomely
Example Sentences
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But life in the swarming cities, Shanghai, Canton, Peiping, Hankow and the capital, Nanking, went toilsomely and safely on.
From Time Magazine Archive
For some reason, after tea was over that evening she opened Aunt Barbara's piano and began to play a gay military march which she had toilsomely learned from one of the familiar English operas.
From Betty Leicester A Story For Girls by Sarah Orne Jewett
As he plodded and floundered thus deviously and toilsomely upward, at last the wasted moon paled overhead, and under foot the snow grew rosy with coming dawn.
From In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making by George Palmer Putnam
So thinks, at any rate, a horseman, toilsomely making his way over its inhospitable expanse.
From Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt by Bertram Mitford
Wading toilsomely through the slime beyond, he scrambled ashore, coated with mud and green scum, and dashed through the reeds, guided always by the continuous sounds of conflict.
From Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad by Herbert Strang
