toilfully
- a word derived from toilful.
Example Sentences
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While the Irish Convention was toilfully bringing to a close its eight months' career of futility, the British Empire was in the grip of the most terrible ordeal through which it has ever passed.
From Ulster's Stand For Union by McNeill, Ronald John
Once more, painfully, toilfully, he went over his plans, retesting, altering, recombining, his hands full of lists, of despatches, and of endless columns of memoranda.
From The Pit by Norris, Frank
Indifferent to style, we do indulge in longings—longings pitifully weak—longings for the preservation of independence toilfully purchased during the poisonous years of the past.
From My Tropic Isle by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
Alas, it was not for me! and I pulled toilfully on.
From Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 by Reed, Talbot Baines
Let them loiter in pleasure or toilfully spin— I gather them in, I gather them in.
From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation by Carman, Bliss
