Example Sentences

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But life in the swarming cities, Shanghai, Canton, Peiping, Hankow and the capital, Nanking, went toilsomely and safely on.

From Time Magazine Archive

We have seen how patiently, how toilsomely, Music has broken one by one the fetters of conventionality; how she has grown in strength and beauty, anticipating the moment of her final deliverance.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 by Rudd, John

In a moment she was out; her sisters followed more deliberately; then the three together, exerting all their strength, dragged the boat toilsomely up the beach.

From The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas by Strang, Mrs. Herbert

As he plodded and floundered thus deviously and toilsomely upward, at last the wasted moon paled overhead, and under foot the snow grew rosy with coming dawn.

From In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making by Putnam, George Palmer

He had come toilsomely to the neighborhood of the rocket-ship because he would have to do visual signaling, and there was no time to lose.

From Invasion by Leinster, Murray