Laborious

Examples

• It is more laborious to accumulate facts than to reason concerning them; but one good experiment is of more value than the ingenuity of a brain like Newton's. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• O the days that he had seen her careful and laborious for him! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The young man was constantly employed out of doors, and the girl in various laborious occupations within. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• A virtuous and laborious people may be cheaply governed. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• That the life I had since led was laborious enough to kill an animal of ten times my strength. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Adrian had been occupied in fulfilling a laborious and painful task. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• We must have been something else, said Celia, objecting to so laborious a flight of imagination. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I had no wish to expose to ridicule the representative of so many hours of laborious thought. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• We should not despise plain features, nor a laborious yet honest occupation, should we? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She released her strong will from its laborious task. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Hard as she had tried in her laborious life to attain many ends, she had never tried harder than she did now, to be varnished by Mrs General. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Prior to 1861 shoemaking was confined to the slow, laborious hand methods of the shoemaker. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I found that I could not compose a female without again devoting several months to profound study and laborious disquisition. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I had worked two chairs with my knife, the sorrel nag helping me in the grosser and more laborious part. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• To break the pigs from the sow, and handle the iron in transportation, was a very laborious and expensive work. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Before his invention, figured patterns of cloth could only be made by slow and laborious processes. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I say,' repeated Fledgeby, with laborious explanatory politeness, 'I beg your pardon. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Why, what a laborious life! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It is laborious, is it not? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Here again the laborious hoe has been succeeded by the labour-saving machine. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• A laborious walk in the flaming sun brought us to the foot of the great Pyramid of Cheops. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• She had a laborious piece of work, here, but it was richly rewarded. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He was continually going backwards and forwards, on laborious tiptoe, to see if his wife was still asleep. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• When she had entered two or three laborious items in the account-book, Jip would walk over the page, wagging his tail, and smear them all out. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Then one can read two or three books in a day, whereas if each word at a time only is sensed, reading is laborious. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• His anxious and laborious efforts were likely, at last, to be crowned with the happiest success. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Before him stretched the long, laborious road, dry, empty, and white. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It was after twelve o'clock when this laborious vehicle dropped him at old Catherine's. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.

Typist: Montague