Toiling

Examples

• It is a noble staircase, and from a distance the people toiling up it looked like insects. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But she knew from her reading infinitely more of the ways of toiling insects than of these toiling men and women. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Then he limped on again, toiling and muttering. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Old Betty Higden fared upon her pilgrimage as many ruggedly honest creatures, women and men, fare on their toiling way along the roads of life. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Pondering, in its suggestive presence, I seemed to see a crazy universe of swinging disks, the toiling children of this sedate parent. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The German sword was always clattering over the Alps into Italy, and missions and legates toiling over in the reverse direction. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He remembered to have seen the waggons, as they went out, toiling up the hill. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• She felt like a beetle toiling in the duSt. She was filled with repulsion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Instead of toiling at a crabbed text and then thinking over its significance, readers now could think unimpeded as they read. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• What do I seek but his good, for which I've been toiling like a convict ever since he was born? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The man is mean, saving, toiling, the slave of one passion which is the master of the rest: Is he not the very image of the State? Plato. The Republic.
• Apply the Testament's gentleness, and charity, and tender mercy to a toiling, worn and weary horse? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

Typist: Tyler