toilworn

American  

[toil-wawrn, -wohrn] / ˈtɔɪlˌwɔrn, -ˌwoʊrn /

adjective

1. worn worn by toil.

   toilworn hands.

2. worn worn out or aged by toil.

   a toilworn farmer.

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Etymology

Origin of toilworn

First recorded in 1745–55; toil ¹ + worn

Example Sentences

Lo, the stone was riven in sunder, The water gushed forth abundantly, The congregation drank and their cattle, And the wanderers laved their toilworn feet.

From Project Gutenberg

Minute after minute for unbroken hours, the hands succeeded one another there,—old, knotted, toilworn hands, the small, brown hands of children, jewelled hands of delicate ladies, and often, as now, the groping hand of blindness, with childish fingers helping it to find those mystical depressions in the agate.

From Project Gutenberg

Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life—the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toilworn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.

From Project Gutenberg

It must be long yet before I can help them effectually, and meantime the bright youth of my little Els�, and the very life of our toilworn patient mother, will be wearing away.

From Project Gutenberg

His benevolent work was confined to no church, sect nor race of men, but was as broad as suffering humanity, never refusing to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and provide for the sick and toilworn immigrants and needy settlers who called for assistance at his old Vancouver home.

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