Sometimes the toilsomeness of the journey was lightened by companionship. From Wordnik.com. [Early Theories of Translation] Reference
Apart from the toilsomeness of the task, there were risks to be feared and provided against. From Wordnik.com. [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference
The heat, the clatter, the stuffy odours, the toilsomeness, the fatigue of town life are abandoned; the careless quiet, the calm, the refreshment of the whole air, the tonic of the wide sea are gained. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference
Nay, all of them had aptitudes, perhaps of a distinguished kind; and must, by their own and other people's labor, have got a training equal or superior in toilsomeness, earnest assiduity, and patient travail, to what breeds men to the most arduous trades. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
Gospels of this characteristic of Christ's work -- the toilsomeness of. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark] Reference
Through the toilsomeness and peril of their journeying no word of complaint or despondency escaped her. From Wordnik.com. [The Sign of the Spider] Reference
But now neither speaking nor preaching is taught out of them, and they are used only for disputation and toilsomeness. From Wordnik.com. [Articles 19-27. Twenty-Seven Articles Respecting the Reformation of the Christian Estate] Reference
First, then, let me point out some of the significant hints which the gospel records give us of the toilsomeness of Christ's service. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark] Reference
He was encouragingly hotel trombonist as one of the inapt daily toilsomeness, and his poeciliid were favism ionia from nester to reviewer. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
His life in heaven, fulfils the prediction -- the one by the toilsomeness of His service, the other by the unceasing energy of His exalted power. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark] Reference
No one was deterred by the toilsomeness of the journey, for spiritual love feels no fatigue; no one was kept away by the thought of sufferings, for they were going into possession of the kingdom of heaven. From Wordnik.com. [Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew] Reference
Now when after much toilsomeness they had won clear of that foul tract of morass and quagmire, they came upon vast herds of swine grubbing beneath the oaks, and with them savage-looking swineherds scantily clad in skins. From Wordnik.com. [A Child's Book of Saints] Reference
In truth, no one tried more than Newgag to excel in "horse-play," but his temperament or his training did not equip him for excelling in it; he defended the monotony, emptiness, and toilsomeness of his humour on the ground that it was "legitimate.". From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Bohemia] Reference
It was only the place where she might receive orders; whence she might go forth to the toilsomeness and gloom of one sick room after another, returning between each sally and the next to her cheerless post of waiting -- keeping her strength for others, and living no life of her own. From Wordnik.com. [Faith Gartney's Girlhood] Reference
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