Toils
[tɔɪlz]
Examples
- He saw every step which I took to draw my toils round him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- In short, the wily old Jew had the boy in his toils. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Little recked Mr Podsnap of the traps and toils besetting his Young Person. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- For of course she always means something; and before I left Long Island I saw that she was beginning to lay her toils for Mattie. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- He remained to combat the fiend--his side unguarded, his toils unshared--infection might even reach him, and he die unattended and alone. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But my toils now drew near a close and, two months from this time, I reached the environs of Geneva. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- In spite of resentment, by day and night she figured to herself the toils and dangers of the wanderers. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Far from that, Diana; his sole idea in proposing to me is to procure a fitting fellow-labourer in his Indian toils. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- She returned wearily to the thought of Percy Gryce, as a wayfarer picks up a heavy load and toils on after a brief rest. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I was like a wild beast that had broken the toils; destroying the objects that obstructed me, and ranging through the wood with a stag-like swiftness. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- How would the gods my righteous toils succeed, And bless the hand that made a stranger bleed? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- After so much time spent in painful labour, to arrive at once at the summit of my desires, was the most gratifying consummation of my toils. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The Greeks wept for joy when they beheld the Mediterranean from the hills of Asia, and hailed with rapture the boundary of their toils. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- What joy they take in the toils she assigns! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Conrade, said the Grand Master, dear companion of my battles and my toils, to thy faithful bosom alone I can confide my sorrows. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Thus it was that I took upon myself the toils and cares of our life, and had no partner in them. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- And there should also be toils and pains and conflicts prescribed for them, in which they will be made to give further proof of the same qualities. Plato. The Republic.
- You are not free from the toils of the law yourself! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Edited by Jacqueline