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

He had come toilsomely to the neighborhood of the rocket-ship because he would have to do visual signaling, and there was no time to lose.

From Invasion by Leinster, Murray

Reaching the portage to the Illinois, they continued their journey across the bleak and snowy waste, toilsomely dragging canoes, baggage, and provisions to the other stream.

From Historical Tales, Vol. 2 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles

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 Putnam, George Palmer

Saxon walked a few steps further, turned into an open street-door, passed the concierge without a word, and toilsomely, but with a purposeful tread, mounted the narrow, ill-lighted stairs.

From The Key to Yesterday by Buck, Charles Neville