Labours

Examples

• I wish continued success to the labours of the Royal Society, and that you may long adorn their chair; being, with the highest esteem, dear sir, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• With this resolution I traversed the northern highlands, and fixed on one of the remotest of the Orkneys as the scene labours. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• And you felt self-satisfied with the result of your ardent labours? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It has been said that electrical science began with the labours of Dr. Gilbert, published in 1600. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It seems as if he must go mad in the necessity he feels for haste and the inability under which he labours of expressing to do what or to fetch whom. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Felix and Agatha spent more time in amusement and conversation, and were assisted in their labours by servants. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• That it has hitherto increased them so little, is probably owing to the restraints which it everywhere labours under. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Of these I was the eldest, and the destined successor to all his labours and utility. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Less conspicuous but still eminently useful were his discoveries and labours in other directions, in the expansion of gases, evaporation, steam, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Whoever labours for man must often find ingratitude, watered by vice and folly, spring from the grain which he has sown. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• My dear Mortimer, you are the express picture of contented industry, reposing (on credit) after the virtuous labours of the day. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The labours of others have raised for us an immense reservoir of important facts. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I discovered also another means through which I was enabled to assist their labours. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I answered by inviting him to accompany me on a general inspection of the result of my labours. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I was unwilling to disturb his labours, and waited, watching the ingress and egress of the petitioners. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But when we consider his labours in the harvest, which is the end of his endeavours, we shall find the worth and plentiful increase of his actions. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He was gone--and with him the chance was gone which had been the one object of all my labours and all my hopes. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The labours of these three men have illuminated the wildest waters of the sea and preserved a thousand fleets of commerce and of war from awful shipwreck. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The triumph of my enemy increased with the difficulty of my labours. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• We experienced no more assaults; and by night and day we continued our labours unimpeded. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He foresaw that his own life would be one of struggle, and I must partake his labours with him. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The sister labours under no reproach, unless she should unfortunately make it for herself. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• To the main point--the departure with me from England, the co-operation with me in my future labours--you do not object. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• That object which actuates and animates me in all my gigantic labours, Sir,' replied Pott, with a calm smile: 'my country's good. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• All round the clock it labours up the broken steps, shattered and worn. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Being acquainted with Mr. Charles Young the performer, I ventured to request him to look over my dramatic labours. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I do not understand a missionary life: I have never studied missionary labours. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The aspect of the country had so far changed, that it had been impossible to enter on the task of sowing seed, and other autumnal labours. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• To determine the proper proportions of these gases, to know which should be increased or wholly or partly eliminated, required the careful labours of patient chemists. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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