Etymology
Origin of toilworn
Example Sentences
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After allowing the national parliament to wrangle all week long over the merits of various plans to renovate the economy, the Soviet President decided he had heard enough debate from the toilworn legislators.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was evidently a Scotch peasant girl, as indicated by the clothes she wore and by her hard, toilworn hands.
From The Day of Judgment by Hocking, Joseph
The two hands pressed each other; they were both toilworn now, but they clasped as firmly as if they had sought each other for twenty years.
From Arne; A Sketch of Norwegian Country Life by Bj?rnson, Bj?rnstjerne
First the toilworn Craftsman that with earth-made implement laboriously conquers the earth, and makes her man's.
From The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson by Coleridge, Stephen
First, the toilworn Craftsman that with earth-made implement laboriously conquers the Earth, and makes her man's.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III by Lodge, Henry Cabot
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