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Sentences ending with labors

While the neat-handed woman worked busily and carefully many merry jests passed between them--many sincere and hearty words of admiration--and before long Arsinoe had become quite excited and took pleased interest in the needle-woman's labors. [10]
But I wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your work, and--and what a comfort you have been to me in my poor labors. [4]
Then doubts began to assail it and undermine it, and the scholars resumed their labors. [5]
Let us hope that our dead have at last found that rest which neither summer nor winter, nor day nor night, had granted to their unending earthly labors! [3]
But he now raised his sagacious and kindly face and asked the old man, 'Did you pray for your companions and for the increase of their labors? [10]
Now he was nearing the scene of his new labors. [10]
But, I would my taxers were as ready to adventure their purses as I, purse, life, and all I have; or as diligent to permit the charge, as I know they are vigilant to reap the fruits of my labors. [4]
As in my last two romances, so in "The Emperor," I have added no notes: I do this in the pleasant conviction of having won the confidence of my readers by my historical and other labors. [10]
He had to grow into the habit of passing from one dreamy pleasure to another, like a bee going from flower to flower in the valley, and he found this wandering habit likely to extend to his labors. [13]
We had the comfortable tap-room of the village inn to ourselves, and for the first time in ten unspeakably long days were exempt from bodings and terrors and hardships and fatiguing labors. [5]

Sentences containing labors two or more times

The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. [7]
The prudent penniless beginner in the world labors for wages a while, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. [7]

More example sentences with the word labors in them

My love for you inspired me in all that I have done, and, now that I come to lay the result of my labors at your feet, you turn from me, and offer my reward to a stranger. [6]
But the old writer, I said to The Teacups, as I say to you, my readers, labors under one special difficulty, which I am thinking of and exemplifying at this moment. [6]
He was haunted with many anxieties; in the first place, Ruth was overtaxing her strength in her hospital labors, and Philip felt as if he must move heaven and earth to save her from such toil and suffering. [5]
The sharp, north wind which blew through the darkness did his aching head good, and still he racked his wits for some pretext to attract Hadrian from his labors, but in vain. [10]
You, poor Gibbus, will find your labors bitter to-day. [10]
The devoted daughter, wife, mother, whose life has been given to unselfish labors, who has filled a place which it seems to others only an angel would make good, reproaches herself with incompetence and neglect of duty. [6]
Those were not very early breakfasts at which the talks took place, but at any rate the sun was rising, and the guests had not as yet tired themselves with the labors of the day. [6]
I brought them up to succeed me, to inherit my labors and my hopes. [10]
Among the many to whom my apologies and thanks are due is Mr. Pierre Chouteau of St. Louis, whose unremitting labors have preserved and perpetuated the history and traditions of the country of his ancestors. [9]
Judge Douglas labors to show that it is one thing, while I think it is altogether different. [7]
Evidently Speranski liked to rest after his labors and find amusement in a circle of friends, and his guests, understanding his wish, tried to enliven him and amuse themselves. [2]
I fully appreciate thy favors, but the labors of the last few days have been too much for me; I can hardly stand on my feet, and the guard of honor--" "Mena will watch," said the king. [10]
My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters of the county; and, if elected, they will have conferred a favor upon me for which I shall be unremitting in my labors to compensate. [7]
A wide gap through miles of woods had opened this distant view, and showed more, perhaps, than all the labors of the architect and the landscape-gardener the large style of the early Dudleys. [6]
The profusion of this supper staggered the novices, but the drovers attacked it as if such cooking were a common occurrence and did justice to the weary labors of Mrs. Egger. [4]
The number of these persons is so great that if they were suffered to indulge their prejudice against every-day duties and labors, it would be a serious loss to the productive industry of the country. [6]
As I recall these past seasons of our joint labors, I feel that they have been on the whole prosperous, and not undeserving of their prosperity. [3]
The cooks prepared their savory messes on large, clean tables, and the scene of their labors, which, though enclosed by cords was open to public gaze was surrounded by a small market, where however only the choicest of wares were displayed. [10]
Age after age the world labors for these things with the busy absorption of a colony of ants in its castle of sand. [4]
He, too, showed the marks of his Herculean labors, but only on his clothes and person. [9]
Mr. Conway gives the following brief account of his labors, and tells in the same connection a story of Father Taylor too good not to be repeated:-- "Emerson took an active interest in the public affairs of Boston. [6]
We were on the edge of another dreaded summer of siege, the prospect of banishment from the homes we could almost see, staring us in the face, and the labors of the spring lost again. [9]
It is assumed that labor is available only in connection with capital; that nobody labors unless somebody else, owning capital, somehow by the use of it induces him to labor. [7]
I am most thankful if my labors have seemed to conduct to the preservation of those institutions, under which alone we can expect good government and in its train sound learning, and the progress of the liberal arts. [7]
And if to such a consummation the efforts of Mr. Clay shall have contributed, it will be what he most ardently wished, and none of his labors will have been more valuable to his country and his kind. [7]
Then the Regent spoke to him, and turning to the other guests mentioned that Paaker was on the point of starting next day for Syria, and resuming his arduous labors as Mohar. [10]
I am truly sorry, being ready to retire, wishing to have an honorable testimony in recompense of my labors, that one is in such hurry to take advantage of my fall. [6]
Indeed, during the six years which we are about to skip over so lightly, he became a marked man in Coniston, and it was voted in towns meeting that he be intrusted with that most important of literary labors, the Town History of Coniston. [9]
Upon its several schemes the Government spent L30,000 and employed the labors and ingenuities of several thousand Whites for a long time with failure as a result. [5]
But the vast ruin will still stand for ages, to shame the puny labors of these modern generations of men. [5]
Mr. Clement Lindsay returned to the city and his usual labors in a state of strange mental agitation. [6]
Two-story men compare, reason, generalize, using the labors of the fact-collectors as well as their own. [6]
He should be put to extry expense, and have to perform additional labors himself. [6]
Mrs. Hawkins was prostrated by this last blow, and it was well that Clay was at her side to stay her with comforting words and take upon himself the ordering of the household with its burden of labors and cares. [5]
It is a proof of the high regard in which the estimable and gifted lady who shares her husband's labors is held by the people of their congregation, and the friends who share in their feelings. [6]
Poorly as her prodigal labors were repaid in proportion to the waste of life they cost, her value was too well established to leave her without what, under other circumstances, would have been a more than sufficient compensation. [6]
I know the peasant; he believes that his labors must be vain if you deprive him of the gods that make it thrive. [10]
Hadrian, as he passed the old ruined monument on his way from Mount Kasius to Egypt, had determined to replace it by a new one, and had entrusted the work to Pontius whose labors at Lochias were now nearly ended. [10]
His labors ended on the tenth of January; on the eleventh the festivities began. [10]
A few exercises on it daily at home fit a man wonderfully for his habitual labors, and refresh him immensely as he returns from them. [6]
The growing rigor of the weather was now admonishing the scientists to close their labors for the present, so they made preparations to journey homeward. [5]
After the labors of the past night the Negro had allowed himself only a few hours rest, and then had met the council, where he had not been slow to discover that he had as many enemies as there were members present. [10]
With the advance of spring the mortality diminished, the sick and lame began to recover, and the colonists, saddened but not disheartened, applied themselves to the labors of the opening year. [3]
The exiled sons of learning settled in various cities on the shores of the Mediterranean, and thus contributed not a little to the diffusion of the intellectual results of the labors in the Museum. [10]
But the pleasures of inventive composition were forced to give way to scientific labors, and when I was once more at leisure to try my wings with increase of power I felt more strongly urged to other flights. [10]
Did these labors of Hercules fill up his time to his contentment, and quiet his appetite for work? [5]
He thought only of escape, and of escape from that quarter of the city that was the witness of his labors and his failure. [4]
I often reproached my dear friend and classmate, Tames Freeman Clarke, that his ceaseless labors made it impossible for his coevals to enjoy the luxury of that repose which their years demanded. [6]
The second new method of studying the human structure, beginning with the labors of Scarpa, Burns, and Colles, grew up principally during the first third of this century. [3]
Who devised the man's mind, whose machinery works automatically, interests itself in what it pleases, regardless of its will or desire, labors all night when it likes, deaf to his appeals for mercy? [5]
My eagerness to make the acquaintance of such an associate in my sympathies and my labors may be well imagined. [6]
We know the labors, the difficulties, the cost of his toils among the dusty records of the past. [6]
He recalled his labors on the Legal Code, and how painstakingly he had translated the articles of the Roman and French codes into Russian, and he felt ashamed of himself. [2]
Judge Driscoll's election labors had prostrated him, but it was said that as soon as he was well enough to entertain a challenge he would get one from Count Luigi. [5]
The late President Josiah Quincy, in his "History of the Boston Athenaeum," pays a high tribute of respect to the memory and the labors of the gentlemen who founded that institution and conducted the "Anthology. [6]
In protecting commercial interests our consuls have necessarily had to encounter increased labors and responsibilities growing out of the war. [7]
Imagination labors best in distant fields. [5]
For this purpose I have depended almost entirely upon original contemporary material, illumined as it now is by the labors of special editors. [4]
It might be humiliating to know just how many men live by the labors of their wives. [4]
He pushed back his chair, and rose, merely indicating the result of his labors by a wave of his hand. [9]
Tim staid with him till the last moment, and then took up his job at the Golden Brier, apparently as depressed by the continued barrenness of their mutual labors as Philip was himself. [5]
Then he told her of the adventures and labors of his late expedition; of certain evidence which at the very last moment he had unearthed, and which was very probably the turning-point in the case. [6]
His hand fell heavily even on the members of the Great Academy--the Museum, as it was called--of Alexandria, though he himself had been devoted to the grave labors of science, and he compelled them to seek a new home. [10]
He cheered the heart of the worthy and zealous minister by an expression of his sympathy in his labors, and by many inquiries in regard to the religious state of the region. [5]
Of this, however, he was not thinking as he stretched himself out on his pallet to rest a little from the exhausting labors of the day. [4]
His labors, as he believed, had secured the favorable issue of the great case so long pending. [6]
Years ago Margaret had thought that she might some time be a missionary, at least that she should like to devote her life to useful labors among the poor and the unfortunate. [4]
Just as we had finished our labors a ragged and melancholy stranger, carrying an old hand-bag, limped by with his head down, and I caught the scent I had chased around the globe! [5]
At first it had been pleasant to see them unbend and have a good time after having so well earned it by the labors of the day, but now it all rasped upon his feelings and his dignity. [5]
As my labors grew, so also grew my fascination. [5]
Then Jehu, the good missionary, rested from his labors once more. [5]
It was concealed from; public gaze by thick linen stretched on tall wooden frames, and behind these screens Pollux was busied in framing a small model in wax, while his master had returned home to make arrangements for the labors of the following day. [10]
And these were friendly unto those, and they joined their loving labors together, and together they built a fair great foundling asylum midway of the valley between. [5]
We are safe for renown now, even though our labors began and ended with this single achievement. [5]
One of the first labors of Newport was to erect a suitable church. [4]
The north-east breeze fanned the fire, aggravating the labors of the men who were endeavoring to extinguish it and snatching flakes of flame off every burning mass. [10]
He saw well enough that Helen Darley would certainly kill herself or lose her wits, if he could not lighten her labors and lift off a large part of her weight of cares. [6]
When, on the eighth morning of his labors, he was taking a few minutes rest, his brother's master came past the rapidly advancing work, and after contemplating it for some time exclaimed: "Splendid, splendid! [10]
Commander John A. Dahlgren, for distinguished services in the line of his profession, improvements in ordnance, and zealous and efficient labors in the ordnance branch of the service. [7]
What but such could have commanded the unremitting labors of that morning? [9]
When Herdegen's eyes closed in death, my wings were broken as it were; with him I lost the highest aim and end of all my labors. [10]
What good, then, can their labors result in? [7]
The joint commission between the United States and the Republic of Costa Rica has completed its labors and submitted its report. [7]
He found time, between his labors at the big hospital newly founded, and his correspondence, and his journeys of love,--between early morning and midnight,--to give some hours a day to the refugees. [9]
When he had been up nearly three hours the five repaired to the scene of their labors over night. [5]
It must not be supposed that the Colonel in his general patriotic labors neglected his own affairs. [5]
There could not be but one result: all the objections and hindrances they could build around her with their hard labors of the day she would charm away at night. [5]
Before he went away he settled with him how he should inform him when he had finished his labors. [10]
Rameses carried our arms into distant lands and earned blood; through my labors the products of our industry have been carried to all parts of the world and instead of blood, have brought us treasure and blessing. [10]
A new horizon and new labors were opening out, full of well-being and prosperity for all. [2]
He got hoarser all the time, but he scorned to allow any personal consideration to interfere with his duty, and kept up his labors in defiance of threatened diphtheria. [5]
Tumult, anxiety, conflict, a perpetual alternation of hard work and excessive fatigue, this was his life, the life he had summoned her to share at his side, without even showing any desire to afford her a part in his cares and labors. [10]
Mr. Ponsonby was a middle-aged Englishman, whose diplomatic labors at various courts had worn a bald spot on his crown. [4]
But we have a great deal to be proud of in the lifelong labors of that old lexicographer, and we must n't be ungrateful. [6]
In the year 1860, Theodore Parker died, and Emerson spoke of his life and labors at the meeting held at the Music Hall to do honor to his memory. [6]

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