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But in 1960 the London Observer asked readers about books they’d enjoyed that year, and Amis praised “The Country Girls” for its “unphony charm and unlaborious originality.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2019

Before Nordhoff & Hall, popular notions of the southwestern Pacific were of an earthly paradise�"summers of the snakeless meadow, unlaborious earth and oarless sea."

From Time Magazine Archive

He had no abhorrence for anybody; but he liked pleasant people; he liked to treat everything as a joke; and he liked the labours of his not unlaborious life to be minimised.

From Marion Fay by Trollope, Anthony

The most beautiful actions of the human body and the highest results of the human intelligence, are conditions, or achievements, of quite unlaborious, nay, of recreative, effort.

From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by Ruskin, John

Now, on the contrary, it involved acceptance of what was in Ireland's eyes a well-paid and unlaborious office.

From John Redmond's Last Years by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius