toilful

How to use toilful in a sentence

• But the rough hands clearly showed that the slumberer had led a hard and toilful life.

  The Forest Farm | Peter Rosegger

• And yet it all depends on the toilful conquest of a subtle and intricate art.

  Edison, His Life and Inventions | Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin

• To travel a couple of months is a sufficient reward for a thousand toilful days.

  Among the Forces | Henry White Warren

• Thus doth benignant Heaven lighten the heavy pressure of toilful industry!

  Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810 | Edward Ziegler Davis

• These were our farewells to each other in this world, a fitting finish to the tragedies of our toilful and thankless lives.

  The Trail of the Tramp | A-No. 1 (AKA Leon Ray Livingston)