toilsome
adjective
characterized by or involving toil; laborious or fatiguing.
toilsomely
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a word derived from
toilsome.
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
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 Murray Leinster
Saxe looked disappointed, and grew more so as the descent was made slowly and toilsomely, with every precaution taken and warning words uttered from time to time respecting keeping the rope taut.
From The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps by Frederic William Burton
The girl, Molly, had read toilsomely through “Pamela,” and saw no reason why an equally attractive housemaid should not aspire to an equally high 170 destiny on this side of the ocean.
From The Continental Dragoon A Love Story of Philipse Manor-House in 1778 by Robert Neilson Stephens
If Adelle could find no very cogent reason why she should make herself toilsomely a pillar of this society, shall we blame her?
From Clark's Field by Robert Herrick
