toilsomely
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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
We have seen how patiently, how toilsomely, Music has broken one by one the fetters of conventionality; how she has grown in strength and beauty, anticipating the moment of her final deliverance.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 by John Rudd
Those are the disfigured elements just mentioned; all of the items of the spiritual inventory from which the person in question has toilsomely “worked himself out” and from which he supposes himself free.
From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Smith Ely Jelliffe
As she sat at her work, day after day, she thought her plan out slowly and toilsomely.
From Dr. Lavendar's People by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
A fortnight later he rolled his blankets and journeyed toilsomely up the river valley.
From The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure by Rex Ellingwood Beach
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