Adjective : a laborious undertaking. ,laborious research. ,a strained, laborious plot. ,a careful, laborious craftsman.    From Dictionary.com. 

The Essays display both the laboriousness and the delight of thinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michel de Montaigne] Reference

Maurice — not with much justice considering the laboriousness of his life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of all countries] Reference

Kottke posts a brilliant rant on the incredible laboriousness of being poly-FOAFed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: January 25, 2004 - January 31, 2004 Archives] Reference

She wondered if he did not understand the laboriousness of the smile with which she listened to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Main Street] Reference

“Copyist,” who blamed me for the excessive laboriousness and solid deliberation of my work, knew that!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Insulted and the Injured] Reference

For technique and its sweat and laboriousness magic pretends to be able to substi - tute some easy arrangement of bodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [BACONIANISM] Reference

Yet not by reason of her laboriousness, her linguistic gifts, or gifts of statesmanship will she be longest and most lovingly remembered.    From Wordnik.com.  [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference

In truth, the Germans have had too much their own way with Hamlet, and have read into him something of their own laboriousness and phlegm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference

Wilson's life was, indeed, a marvel of cheerful laboriousness; exhibiting the power of the soul to triumph over the body, and almost to set it at defiance.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference

Thus we would be for one hour moving the distance of a hundred paces, and any soldier who has ever had to undergo such marching, can well understand its laboriousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Kershaw's Brigade] Reference

Elizabeth gives so much of herself -- despite the pain, despite the exhaustion, despite the laboriousness of the task -- to give a little something to people she doesn't know.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last Saturday and the piece of sky and trees] Reference

And he had in truth spent a life of almost unremitting laboriousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Washington]

The idea of right living inspires not joy but disgust, because of its laboriousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

With his customary laboriousness, Darius described the entire process of distribution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clayhanger] Reference

This was very trying to one's health, both on account of the laboriousness of the work and of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad; Being a Brief History of the Labors of a Lifetime in Behalf of the Slave, with the Stories of Numerous Fugitives, Who Gained Their Freedom Through His Instrumentality, and Many Other Incidents] Reference

When he spoke, it was with a laboriousness that crushed the breath out of any possible answer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Awakening of Helena Richie] Reference

The picture of President Adams's daily life is striking in its simplicity and its laboriousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series] Reference

We must, indeed, watch a harvest from beginning to end to realise the laboriousness of a farmer's life here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holidays in Eastern France] Reference

I have in mind the frugality of these country folks, their laboriousness, their simple, upright, sturdy ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Roof of France] Reference

It is impossible to give any idea of the thrift and laboriousness of the better order of working classes here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holidays in Eastern France] Reference

On every side we have evidence of the tremendous natural resources and indefatigable laboriousness of the people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holidays in Eastern France] Reference

Such effects as she brought about came without noise, without effort, and without laboriousness of good intention.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Inner Shrine] Reference

Though the show broke brand new ground in laboriousness when it had Sun write down her thoughts with pen and paper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slate Magazine] Reference

His laboriousness had the appearance of something stupendous, when there were many literary but few very learned men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the English Poets]

But what they have effected is fairly attributable to their zeal and laboriousness, rather than to their peculiar opinions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs, Correspondence and Poetical Remains of Jane Taylor] Reference

She read and took notes incessantly, mastering facts with painful laboriousness, but never flinching from her self-imposed task.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mayor of Casterbridge] Reference

Whatsoever may be said in praise of the earnestness, zeal, activity, and laboriousness, of those who resist the authority of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons. Volume the Second.] Reference

Will only thought of giving a good pinch that would annihilate that vaunted laboriousness, and was unable to imagine the mode in which.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlemarch] Reference

Acknowledging his laboriousness and even his affectation, we still maintain that the style of Walter Pater is a very adequate expression of his mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among Famous Books] Reference

Such an inquiry involves a laboriousness which should have attracted Lounsbury: he once counted the number of times the word female appears in “Vanity Fair”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 1. Introductory. 2. The Academic Attitude] Reference

Didn't she contradict all the things he approved of -- all the laboriousness, the earnestness, the tolerant bias towards the views and feelings of the majority?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Franklin Kane] Reference

All of de Rossi's critics are at one in admiring the laboriousness of his work, but they deny that its importance bears any proportion to the labour it implies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference

Aside from the preponderance of feminine endings, which is inevitable in Scandinavian blank verse, what strikes us most in this translation is its laboriousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway] Reference

The very vigor and laboriousness of men may lead them to neglect love, but the constant cares of maternity make women feel how important it must ever be to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women] Reference

Will only thought of giving a good pinch that would annihilate that vaunted laboriousness, and was unable to imagine the mode in which Dorothea would be wounded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlemarch] Reference

"What a meek and quiet spirit was she, active to laboriousness, though refined in person.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference

"We acted," Crawshay explained, with studied laboriousness, -- "my friends and I acted, that is to say -- upon inconclusive information.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Box with Broken Seals] Reference