toilful
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Hard likeness to the toilful apes of youth He bore at times, and tempted the sly smile; And not on her soft lips was it descried.
From Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith
And yet it all depends on the toilful conquest of a subtle and intricate art.
From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer
On my eighth birthday, with bag and baggage complete, we all made the toilful journey down into Devonshire, and I was a town-child no longer.
From Father and Son: a study of two temperaments by Edmund Gosse
After a century, behold the Yankee,—the shrewd, toilful, thrifty occupant of the homely earth; one side of his brain speculating on the eternities, and the other side devising wealth, comfort, personal and social good.
From The Chief End of Man by George Spring Merriam
When, by a slow and toilful progress, the family graveyard has been reached, the lowering of the coffin into the grave—sometimes a huge circular opening—is the culminating point of the many days of excitement.
From Village Life in China A Study in Sociology by Arthur H. Smith
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