Laboured

Examples

• He laboured faithfully in the parish. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• By degrees, in the pauses of his quick and laboured breathing, he was heard to say: What is this? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The very breathing of the figure was contemptible, as it laboured and rattled in that operation, like a blundering clock. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• This was load enough to crush him, and he laboured under it day and night. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• You laboured to win her round; I did nothing. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Ephraim is an heartless dove--Issachar an over-laboured drudge, which stoops between two burdens. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• This however did not prevent my writing a laboured letter, which had cost me three copies, to try to melt Colonel Quintin's heart in his favour. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Mr. Quincy laboured hard with the governor to obtain his assent, but he was obstinate. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Having imparted this valuable secret, Mr. Weller drained his glass once more, produced a laboured wink, sighed deeply, and slowly retired. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• A working man can hardly be made to feel and know how much his employer may have laboured in his study at plans for the benefit of his workpeople. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• He had made a good speculation in the City, and was rather in a good humour that day, and chanced to remark the agitation under which she laboured. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• They had credit in plenty, but they had bills also in abundance, and laboured under a scarcity of ready money. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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