Adjective : a laborious undertaking. ,laborious research. ,a strained, laborious plot. ,a careful, laborious craftsman. From Dictionary.com.
" He said her name laboriously, as if he were coaxing a lone low note from his saxophone bell. From Wordnik.com. [Skinny Legs and All]
He says the board meets "laboriously" with the SEC over the PCAOB budget, rules and disciplinary actions. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
He says the board meets "laboriously" with the SEC over the PCAOB budget, rules, and disciplinary actions. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
Mr. Kan agreed to honor the laboriously negotiated plan. From Wordnik.com. [Tokyo's Relationship Anxiety] Reference
I picked up a volume of laboriously detailed mission procedures. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Philip Neches: Houston, We Have a Problem] Reference
She found her slate and laboriously added up the column of figures. From Wordnik.com. [At the Little Brown House] Reference
Nothing daunted, they laboriously toiled up to the crest with their teams. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
The first is a laboriously methodical and thorough treatise on agriculture. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
"Yes, it was awfully nice of you to think of us," put in Ruth, laboriously. From Wordnik.com. [The Governess] Reference
He provided against the coming demolition of the structure so laboriously built up. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
She tugged it laboriously across the stubbly field, and her short, panting breaths did not reach. From Wordnik.com. [The Governess] Reference
Why those many thousand lines written and composed so laboriously on Metrodorus, and Aristobulus, and. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
But even that difficulty was at last overcome: a shaky signature and a date were laboriously penned, and. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
They resembled each other so much; and, laboriously, Jean returned to the history of the campaigns of Turenne. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"I sh'd think you would know," grunted Allee from her seat on the rug where she was laboriously lacing her shoes. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Gold] Reference
Then, with rocks laboriously gathered from the steep slope, they buried Mallory where he lay on his beloved Everest. From Wordnik.com. [Ghost Of Everest] Reference
She arranged it tentatively, scattered the pieces again and laboriously pieced them together in another combination. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow Hill] Reference
Otherwise he laboriously prints letter-by-letter everything that he writes by hand, and uses a computer for the rest. From Wordnik.com. [Call The Script Doctor] Reference
But then our progress became almost imperceptible, and every stroke was made more feebly and laboriously than the last. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
But Michel had felt humiliated to see his own folk make a gap in the financial edifice erected so laboriously by his wife. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"" Goods once produced laboriously at home -- clothes, beer, candles ... furniture -- could now be purchased, '' writes Muller. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit Of Adam Smith] Reference
Haiti Aid Watchdog is laboriously working with partners to organize a series of debates between civil society and the candidates. From Wordnik.com. [Gina Athena Ulysse: Haiti's Electionaval 2010] Reference
Before many dams could be so laboriously modified the Revolutionary War arrived to obscure placid matters like fish conservation. From Wordnik.com. [The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia] Reference
The Democrats have been laboriously constructing a campaign message for 1992 that accuses the president of ignoring domestic issues. From Wordnik.com. [To Help Or Not To Help?] Reference
At length the archers laboriously turned upon their hinges the heavy gates opening into the street, and the crowd eagerly rushed in. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Escragnolles and Castellane exhibit lofty, wild, and partially-wooded mountains, with fields of wheat on laboriously-terraced ground. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
They were printed laboriously by hand, on paper also made by hand, and were naturally considered worthy of the most lasting bindings. From Wordnik.com. [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference
True to the Teutonic tradition, the movement had been laboriously organised, but lacked psychic insight, for the Turk is too much of a. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
When knitting by hand, one must form each loop separately, and loop follows loop laboriously until the width of fabric has been worked. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
The local and general elections so laboriously (and expensively) organized in Kosovo are the KLA's first real chance at transformation. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
Of all the motley forms of humanity, surely the one type that is made-laboriously, painfully-and not born would seem to be transsexuals. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Plus Nurture] Reference
"You've cut off your hair?" asked Jim, laboriously, as if he had not arrived at that patent fact yet even after the hardest mental labor. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Morton, having fitted a handle to the hatchet-head, and laboriously sharpened it upon a rough stone, undertook to supply materials as fast as called for. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
At dawn on the 26th the column again laboriously mounted the terrible steeps leading to Mount Prospect, and fixed their camp about four miles from the Nek. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
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