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

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 Jewett, Sarah Orne

But she rowed back with the old brown dory almost as empty as when she had rowed it toilsomely out to her traps.

From Judith Lynn A Story of the Sea by Donnell, Annie Hamilton

At five o'clock the 8th Division, headed by the 13th Brigade, was pushing toilsomely through the dense forest of Givodeau, on its way to operate against this new defensive position.

From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Helmuth, Count

And that is a publication of his relations with Jesuitism, the destruction of the toilsomely obtained confidence of his party, in order to prevent his election.

From A Twofold Life by Hillern, Wilhelmine von