Toiled

Examples

• No need, was again her answer--no need, no need: and her small step toiled wearily up the staircase. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He deserved it all--all labour, all devotion, all sacrifice; I would have toiled up a scaleless Alp, to pluck a flower that would please him. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I had toiled up a hill which led to Spoleto. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The atmosphere of those Fairy palaces was like the breath of the simoom: and their inhabitants, wasting with heat, toiled languidly in the desert. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• They toiled through the sand, charging an enemy who always evaded their charge and rode round them and shot them to pieces. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In the patient solving of tremendous problems he had toiled up the mountain-side of success--scaling its topmost peak and obtaining a view of the boundless prospect. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Martin grinned as he toiled up the steep, encumbered field, difficult to the foot as a slope in the upper realms of Etna. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• And you have only toiled a few months! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• How I've toiled for him, and worked and employed my talents and energy, I won't say. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• All day, Rachael toiled as such people must toil, whatever their anxieties. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• All morning she toiled on, longing for rest, but in a continual whirl of melancholy business. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Everywhere men who would have been regarded as shady adventurers before 1914 had acquired power and influence while better men toiled unprofitably. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• My tears now fell in despondency at the dangers and labour of the task I had undertaken; yet I toiled on with indefatigable industry. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• In front of her a colony of ants had established a thoroughfare across the way, where they toiled a never-ending and heavy-laden throng. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

Typist: Vilma