Laboriously

Examples

• I design to secrete it in the wall of the chimney, where I have slowly and laboriously made a place of concealment for it. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• One incident tells how he was found one day in the village square copying laboriously the signs of the stores. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Treated as if their meaning began and ended in those confines, they are curious facts to be laboriously learned. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In poorer houses, water is laboriously carried in buckets from the spring or is lifted from the well by the windlass. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The water may be brought to the surface either by laboriously raising it, bucket by bucket, or by the less arduous method of pumping. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Having learned late in life, Tom was but a slow reader, and passed on laboriously from verse to verse. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The spraying of trees (Fig. 143), formerly done slowly and laboriously, is now a relatively simple matter. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He took Becky out to drive; he went laboriously with her to all her parties. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She could not bear to see him winding heavily and laboriously, bending and rising mechanically like a slave, turning the handle. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

Typist: Molly