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
That toilful midnight, at the close of the last great passion-day of the bullion-worshippers, will be ever memorable for its anxieties and unsatisfying anguish.
From Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe
So the toilful good soul kept them at her knee for the next hour or two, while they looked through all the pictures in the old family Bible.
From The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The prairie, for all its beauties, spelt toilful days and bitter disappointment for him.
From The Forfeit by Ridgwell Cullum
Where all were toilful laborers, and few possessed more than a sufficiency of worldly goods to provide for the necessities of the day, there was no room for the distinctions of rank.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
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