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Whereupon he toilfully rewrote his requisitions 'and so to bed.'

From Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned by Morley, Christopher

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

Far too weighty to lift, the logs were toilfully transported inch by inch on rollers with a crowbar as a lever.

From My Tropic Isle by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

It was as if an edifice that he had been toilfully raising, stone by stone, had begun to crumble under his hands.

From Vixen, Volume III. by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

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