Perhaps this was the end of their toilsome retreat. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
The panorama comes as the reward of the toilsome climb!. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
To the troops this, although toilsome, was unusually exciting. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
The pursuit of pleasure soon becomes wearisome, and hence toilsome. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature] Reference
This toilsome path was evidently made by a rushing, winding torrent. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
I see myself now at the end of my journey; my toilsome days are ended. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
She would not save him to live the toilsome, slavish life of the Jews. From Wordnik.com. [Fair to Look Upon] Reference
And now commenced their toilsome journey down the side of the cataract. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference
We continued to move along in this tedious, toilsome way as rapidly as possible. From Wordnik.com. [A Soldier in the Philippines] Reference
After half an hour's toilsome march over uneven ground, we entered a grove, which, to. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
An omnibus, in the course of its journey, had to be taken up a long and toilsome hill. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
In an hour, after a toilsome march, floundering through the snow, she reached the spot. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
Its oppressive heat forbids a toilsome industry, and almost enforces indolence as a law. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Soldiers find their activities very toilsome, especially after the novelty has worn off. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature] Reference
Enthusiastic indeed must these early pilgrims have been to undertake the long and toilsome journey. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
During all this toilsome way, but few words passed between us, and these generally in low whispers. From Wordnik.com. [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference
At last, during the latter part of a toilsome day's march, poor Spring lagged in rear and was forgotten. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
We have not to make a toilsome pilgrimage, on bleeding feet, to some distant Lourdes, where the sacred healer abides. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Those who devote themselves entirely to the pursuit of pleasure find it more toilsome and disagreeable than ordinary work. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature] Reference
We can well imagine that the days just preceding the test upon Carmel were toilsome days and the nights were sleepless nights. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Biblical Characters] Reference
After a long and toilsome march, they reached the banks of the St. Joseph's river, on which the object of their expedition stood. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
But as she advanced, she found that what had appeared to be an easy stroll, seemed converted into a toilsome and perplexing journey. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Italy, as can be made in a year by that toilsome and erroneous way of boiling sea water into salt in kettles as our people at Smith's. From Wordnik.com. [The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia] Reference
On the 15th, it again took up the march, bound for Chattanooga, and arrived there in the afternoon of the 18th, after a toilsome march. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during its term of service] Reference
You are a ruined man, or you are stricken by a great bereavement, or again, you see the fruit of toilsome years perish before your eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
Each passer-by had cast his tribute on the pile as an offering to good spirits that they might lessen his fatigue in the toilsome climb. From Wordnik.com. [Tecumseh A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People; Vol. 17 of Chronicles of Canada] Reference
They had hobbled about one third of the toilsome way when there came a rush of galloping hoofs, the girls had barely time to crouch and cry out. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
Mrs. Smith, and the Lees came next, pursuing their toilsome march over the same mountain ranges, and closely behind them came Mr. and Mrs. Griffin and. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
On the 4th of September I ascended Sand Mountain, but had got only half way across the plateau, on top, when night came, the march having been a most toilsome one. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
So when the weary itinerant would return and find that his family had not been entirely neglected in his absence he would take new courage to pursue his toilsome way. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth: the Disinherited Daughter By E. Ben Ez-er] Reference
But a few minutes before nine o'clock, after a toilsome struggle, we reach the summit of the ridge, and here I get my first panoramic view of the west-Jordan country. From Wordnik.com. [My Three Days in Gilead] Reference
Then he rose from his seat, and remarking carelessly, Well, now we'd really better be getting on, old chap, set off up the road again, over the toilsome way they had come. From Wordnik.com. ['Wind In The Willows': A Christmas Take On A Classic] Reference
The young Italian did not waste a moment, but made his way towards Rome as rapidly as he was able, though his progress was necessarily toilsome and painful in the extreme. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
How generous and self-sacrificing you used to be with the slender provisions, and anxious lest the foot-sore huntsman should not get enough to sustain his toilsome existence!. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
He consulted Huntingford, who strongly advised him against giving up his pleasant, safe, and lucrative office, for the toilsome, hazardous, and unpopular office of the secretary. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
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