Etymology
Origin of toilworn
Example Sentences
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After allowing the national parliament to wrangle all week long over the merits of various plans to renovate the economy, the Soviet President decided he had heard enough debate from the toilworn legislators.
From Time Magazine Archive
And nigh upon this fort I beheld the stealthy forms of men, toilworn and ragged, whose battered, rusty armour glinted ever and anon as they crept in two companies advancing to right and left.
From Martin Conisby's Vengeance by Jeffery Farnol
Hitherto his life had been poor and toilworn; but otherwise not ungenial, and, with all its distresses, by no means unhappy.
From Life of Robert Burns by Thomas Carlyle
First, the toilworn Craftsman, that, with earth-made Implement, laboriously conquers the Earth, and makes her man's.
From The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book by Ontario. Ministry of Education
Corot saw the same poor, toilworn peasants, and he helped them most generously when they asked him, but as for painting them—he did not think of it.
From Stories Pictures Tell Book Four by Flora L. Carpenter
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