He spent his days in labouring among people upon whom he sometimes fancied he had obtained no hold.    From Wordnik.com.  [That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story] Reference

Here was an innumerable multitude of people gathered together, so that they trade one upon another, in labouring to get foremost, and to come within hearing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference

And next morning he went to work, "labouring" for the Oracle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Over the Sliprails] Reference

"M'sieu!" she cried, with great labouring breaths.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference

Your labouring bullocks through the vineyard's midst.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Georgics] Reference

Their tired legs packed with thyme, come labouring home.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Georgics] Reference

On what quiet farm is the coming deliverer now labouring?.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference

And by choosing labouring men our Master glorified labour.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference

Farmers, ploughmen, and almost all labouring men, plead for it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference

So that the poor man was labouring under an accession of dignity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference

But one solution remained; Darrow was labouring under a delusion, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Darrow Enigma] Reference

"I am afraid that you are labouring under a delusion," said Rainsfield.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter] Reference

Wherefore I left off and my heart renounced labouring anymore under the sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference

Indeed, he had spent twenty-three years of his own life labouring toward this end.    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

"A thousand pardons, monsieur," he apologized excitedly, labouring to catch his breath.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference

Here was Alfy tied to the boat, and labouring with bound wrists to work the skiff along.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island House A Tale for the Young Folks] Reference

Barry, when he was labouring under old age, and so miserably infirm that he walked with difficulty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810] Reference

What I am I owe to St. Dunstan's, and while labouring here my heart ever goes back to dear old England.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through St. Dunstan's to Light] Reference

There was no suspension of ordinary employment among the labouring people, nor was any medicine required.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference

At 18, after a succession of labouring jobs, he joined the Zulu-language Durban newspaper Ilanga lase Natal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lewis Nkosi obituary] Reference

On 1st July they were still labouring forward; a foot of soft snow on the ground made travelling very exhausting.    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

Dartford in 1833, when the workmen with whom he had been labouring clubbed together to give him a suitable funeral.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cornwall Coast] Reference

It places the labouring classes on the very border of starvation, and leaves no margin whatever for any contingencies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference

Sleep is sweet to a labouring man, whether he eat little or much: but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference

After labouring there for a time, he longed for a position of yet greater solitariness, and he therefore resigned his office.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference

After labouring 36 years in this diocese he died on the 29th of November 94, and was buried in the little chapel he himself had built.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

As he was thus enjoying himself, there came by two labouring men, who looked with hungry eyes at the one goose which was yet untouched.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference

The Malays, though labouring under the disadvantage of a bad reputation, are a well developed, muscular race, of a dark, copper colour.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference

Serny's; who, labouring under incipient fever which has not yet tamed them into submission, tell us they would -- optative mood -- be at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference

That must be my excuse for apparently labouring this matter of stocking, more especially as there is still a curious development to unfold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference

"Come in," said he, forcing a faint laugh --- he stopped for a moment as he closed and locked the gate -- labouring painfully for his breath.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference

Unquestionably the peasant and labouring class in France is hard-working at his daily task and at his play, for when he plays he also plays hard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference

I tried for a number of days to ease my conscience by telling myself that I was labouring in the cause of justice, and was not a common eavesdropper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Darrow Enigma] Reference

All this while labouring over songs, gigging in innumerable small venues around London and searching for the right producer to guide her towards that elusive record deal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rumer: 'If Burt Bacharach says you're good, it's time to start believing in yourself'] Reference

The Boy saw him coming, like a falling star against the mountain; he heard the singing sound of the Fire Spirits close behind, and the labouring breath of the Counsellor.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference