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Sentences ending with toil

Day after day we toiled, and climbed and searched, and we younger partners grew sicker and still sicker of the promiseless toil. [5]
The battered house, the absence of barn or stable or garden, or any token of thrift or energy, marked the man as an excrescence in this theatre of hope and fruitful toil. [11]
He was informed that the mercenaries in the Schnitzthurm guard were paid five shillings a week more than he, spite of the knowledge he had gained by so much toil. [10]
And yet she stood a little struck with timidity, puzzled by the contradictions he presented of youth and age, of shrewdness, experience and candour, of gentility and manual toil. [9]
While chasing the rabbit this slope had appeared interminable to him; now, burdened as he was, he did not think of length or height or toil. [13]
These must be protected in health, given economic freedom and a just reward for their toil. [9]
Then you say, 'lighten his toil. [2]
From beneath us life vibrated with the regularity of a pulse: distance gave a kind of delighted ease to toil. [11]
Strength to his hours of manly toil! [6]
Hitherto he had found the sculptors honest men, and Hermon would not withhold the payment for his well-earned toil. [10]

Sentences containing toil two or more times

We are aware of the toil necessarily incident to a journey by one circumstanced as you are; but once you have embarked, as you have already determined to do, the toil would not be greatly augmented by extending the journey to our capital. [7]

More example sentences with the word toil in them

In pious Trust yourself forget For others only toil and fret, Since all we do for fellow Men With right good Will, shall be our Gain. [10]
I have not written a single line, and have not once thought of business, or care or human toil or trouble or sorrow or weariness. [5]
Being vigilant, one would have seen, however, that he lived in some land of memory or anticipation, beyond his life of daily toil and usual dealing. [11]
They were her world, and her sole pleasure was to satisfy the compassionate impulse in her own breast by severe toil, by tender solicitude, by night watching, and by exertions often continued to actual suffering. [10]
And, if the world will no longer tolerate the old theories, a tribute may at least be paid to those who from conviction upheld them; who ruled, perhaps in affluence, yet were also willing to toil and, if need be, to die for the privilege. [9]
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]
I suspected it when I heard that she had succumbed to death, which I--yes, I here--had held back from her with severe toil through many a sleepless night. [10]
A little of what Mr. Bolton has weakly given to unworthy people would now establish his family in a sort of comfort, and relieve Ruth of the excessive toil for which she inherited no adequate physical vigor. [5]
But everything is well, now--we are done with poverty, sad toil, weariness and heart-break; all the world is filled with sunshine. [5]
Look on the waves: their stormy voices teach That not on earth may toil and struggle cease. [6]
To those remaining veteran patriots whose footsteps we followed to this distant desert, and who by their blood and toil have converted it into a smiling country, we now look. [9]
Forced by the unshaken solidarity of tens of thousands, the manufacturers offer bribes to end the reign of terror they have inaugurated.... Inhuman treatment and oppressive toil have brought all nationalities together into one great army to fight against a brutal system of exploitation. [9]
He had heard, too, that they shrunk from no lies, no fraud to escape their toil, and how difficult was the task of compelling them to obey and fulfil their duty. [10]
Oh, that this toil might end and you would release me! [2]
It led him to treat with fullest consideration all who were in the least degree under his direction, and converted in consequence the toil of subordinates into a pleasure. [4]
They have nothing to do but eat and sleep and sleep and eat, and toil a little when they can get a friend to stand by and keep them awake. [5]
Not futile was thy toil, if thou canst see That for thy sons fruit from one seed appears. [10]
When the day-laborer threw his hoe over his shoulder, the poor rascal was rid of toil and anxiety; but they pursued him everywhere, night and day. [10]
Generous-hearted people would think that these grown- up sons and daughters should have returned the old people's long toil and care by buying up the farm and handing it back to them, their rightful refuge in the decline of life. [11]
The vision of these had remained with him during the years of his toil in the growing Western city, and embodied from the first homesick days an ideal to which he hoped sometime permanently to return. [9]
What power was there in desert life that could make this poor camel-driver, at the end of a long day of weariness and toil and little food and drink, sing a song of content and cheerfulness? [11]
The light of the sky above was a soft radiance, as of a happy Arcadian land; the fire of the toil beneath was the output of human striving, an intricate interweaving of vital forces which, like some Titanic machine, wrought out in pain--a vast destiny. [11]
They lay in the shade and slept the sleep of honest toil full half the time, at least all the time I was away. [4]
I then began the once familiar toil of ascending the long declivity. [6]
In this way the mind, the taste, the feelings, grow delicate, just as the hands grow white and soft when saved from toil and incased in soft gloves. [6]
And so in the heat of this exhausting August, at the time when his body most needed re-enforcement for the toil he required of it, he was more rigid in his spiritual tyranny and contempt of it. [4]
They sit on the fence of criticism, and cannot for the life of them see what the vulgar crowd make such a toil and sweat about. [4]
Thick-headed commentators upon the Bible, and stupid preachers and teachers, work more damage to religion than sensible, cool-brained clergymen can fight away again, toil as they may. [5]
Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it. [4]
As the rider that rests with the spur on his heel,-- As the guardsman that sleeps in his corselet of steel,-- As the archer that stands with his shaft on the string, He stoops from his toil to the garland we bring. [6]
As the rider that rests with the spur on his heel, As the guardsman that sleeps in his corselet of steel, As the archer that stands with his shaft on the string, He stoops from his toil to the garland we bring. [6]
She belonged to that old class of New-Yorkers who made trade honorable, like the merchants of Holland and Venice, and she knew also that Jack's little fortune had come out of honest toil and strict business integrity. [4]
It seemed, then, that honest toil and brave diligence had but earned the heaviest dole that could befall a man in his state of life; namely: to depart from those he loved or ever he could provide for their future living. [10]
Now did it take a hundred years of patient toil to carve the Sphynx? [5]
The expedition, as Smith predicted, was fruitless: the Indians deceived them and refused to trade, and the company got back to Jamestown, half of them sick, all grumbling, and worn out with toil, famine, and discontent. [4]
With much toil she managed to tip it so as to get a couple of glasses filled. [6]
The next moment she beheld a grey-haired old man, bowed by heavy toil, raise his fist against Moses. [10]
Once more the sense of awful futility was on him: of wasted toil and blenched force, veins of energy drained of their blood, hope smitten in the way, and every dear dream shattered. [11]
For I have seen and known and loved the people with all their crudities and faults, whose inheritance it was by right of toil and suffering and blood. [9]
I did not say this in these very words, but I gave him to understand, without being too hard upon him, that he had better not desert his honest toil in pursuit of the poet's bays. [6]
It is the same spirit that says, 'You work and toil and earn bread and I'll eat it. [7]
It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it. [7]
A dull labourer, returning from late toil, felt it, and raised his head in a perturbed way, as though some one had brought him news of a far-off disaster. [11]
As the galley put off from the shore, and the flutes summoned the oarsmen to their toil, its owner felt so disheartened that he did not even venture to hope that he was going in quest of good tidings. [10]
Of all those present, evidently he alone was not seeking anything for himself, nursed no hatred against anyone, and only desired that the plan, formed on a theory arrived at by years of toil, should be carried out. [2]
She reached The Poplars after much toil and travail. [6]
It is a pleasure to eat of the fruit of one's toil, if it be nothing more than a head of lettuce or an ear of corn. [4]
Gorgias foresaw a period of feverish toil, but it did not daunt him. [10]
A surface-smile may pay the toil That follows still the conquering Right, With soft, white hands to dress the spoil That sunbrowned valor clutched in fight. [6]
And with all our works, our expenditure and toil, how many have we lifted up? [9]
After a day of toil, what more natural, and what more probable for a Spaniard? [4]
At the end of each whole year's toil he can't show a gain of fifty dollars. [5]
This toil was now very laborious, for the river had fallen to so low a level as to give cause for anxiety, even at this season of extreme ebb. [10]
But he could not conceive of their life, their toil or their festivals, bereft of images, offerings, garlands, and hymns of rejoicing. [10]
Three days and nights of toil and hunger in the cave were not to be shaken off at once, as Tom and Becky soon discovered. [5]
They toil not, neither do they spin. [9]
You who toil miserably for nine hours and produce, let us say, nine dollars of wealth--do you receive it? [9]
It is only men who have borne the shock of toil and danger, and have beaten up against the world's buffetings, that are fit to say last words over those gone down in the storm or translated in the fiery chariot of duty. [11]
Ranulph joined his men at the wreck, and the Reverend Lorenzo Dow went about the Lord's business in the little lean-to of sail-cloth and ship's lumber which had been set up near to the toil of the carpenters. [11]
Leave Nell and me to toil and work. [12]
The free Northern life of toil and hardship had not refined him. [11]
Thus life, until its end--perhaps wholly unexpectedly--arrived within a brief season, offered him nothing save suffering and sacrifice, disappointment, toil, and anxieties. [10]
I can save it if I go; but, just as I am ready, my mills burn down, my treasury dries up, Kaid turns his back on me, and the toil of years is swept away in a night. [11]
He soon won his way to the old man's heart, and to his laboratory, which had been developed through years of patience and ingenious toil in this desolate spot. [11]
He had had his share of pastime; now had come his share of toil, and the mood for give and take of words was not on him. [11]
Now he raised his head and with a hasty gesture, said: "Strange that those who toil for existence with their hands, and whose uncultured brains only move when their daily needs require it, are most ready to sacrifice the little they possess, for spiritual blessings. [10]
He came where he could watch his money breed more money, and bring greater increase of its kind in an hour of luck than the toil of hundreds of men could earn in a year. [8]
When Iras, who had taken Charmian's place, accompanied the Queen to her chamber after several hours of toil, she found her silent and sad. [10]
St. Francis himself had set the example of performing this toil cheerfully and gladly. [10]
And Gotz, who had endured so much anguish and toil to be faithful to his other sweetheart, was not less worthy of my faith, and it must be my task to fight against the evil spirit with all the strength that was in me. [10]
A large party had collected under the wide palm-thatched roof of the dyeing shed-pretty and ugly, brown and fair, tall and short; some upright and some bent by toil at the loom from early youth, but all young; not one more than eighteen years old. [10]
To increase the grandeur of his family and render it the most powerful reigning house in the world, he had become prematurely old; had undertaken superhuman tasks of toil and care; even now he would permit himself no repose. [10]
All, all are gone who gathered there; Some toil among the masses, Some, overworn with pain and care, Wait Death's "Prepare for classes. [11]
Who is it gives toil, and where will your rich men be when once the poor shall refuse to give toil'? [8]
They had spoken from the soul; not bitterly, not passionately, but their words had rung with the determination which had made their forefathers and his leave home, toil, and kindred to fight and die at Bunker Hill and Gettysburg for a principle. [9]
Money was plenty for every attainable luxury, and there seemed to be no doubt that its supply would continue, and that fortunes were about to be made without a great deal of toil. [5]
Her boat was floating quietly along, for she had at last taken in her oars, and she was now almost tired out with toil and excitement. [6]
For years,--since her earliest womanhood,--those slender hands had taken the bread which repaid the toil of heart and brain from the coarse palms which offered it in the world's rude market. [6]
It was obviously due to his inability adequately to cope with modern conditions that his daughters were forced to toil, but this was the nearest she ever came to reproaching him. [9]
We've got to drag along, drag along, and eat crusts in toil and poverty, all hopeless and forlorn--but they'll ride in coaches, Nancy! [5]
She wished to do something--the spirit of toil, the first habit of the life of the poor, the natural medium for the good that may be in them, had possession of her. [11]
Both showed a degree of self-reliance unusual, at their age; but the architect's was the assurance which a man gains by toil and his own merit, Dion's that which is bestowed by large possession and a high position in society. [10]
For Abraham Lincoln dealt with abstruse questions in language so limpid that many a farmer, dulled by toil, heard and understood and marvelled. [9]
City seems so cramped and so dreary with toil and care and business anxieties. [5]
But the snow continued to fall, and through the twilight of the descending flakes all this toil and encountered looked like that weary kind of effort in dreams, when the most determined industry seems only to renew the task. [5]
And I know clerks that don't know how to write very well, but such knowledge as they possess they nobly lay at the feet of their country, and toil on and suffer for twenty-five hundred dollars a year. [5]
Toil, with a certainty, but our lives had known it. [9]
You have profited by their toil to lead a profligate life. [2]
He asked nothing but good pay for blood and toil, good pay, not coppers and worthless promises. [10]
The toil, once begun, fascinated him strangely, and after the day's work was done, and at every interval he could snatch from his duties, he wrought at his secret task. [6]
No, no,--I have been bred to humble toil all my days, and I could not be to you what you ought to ask. [6]
Even the busy bee Forgets her daily toil. [10]
Economic inequalities must be reduced, and those who toil must be given a chance to live, not merely to exist. [9]
That is their argument, and this argument of the Judge is the same old serpent that says, You work, and I eat; you toil, and I will enjoy the fruits of it. [7]
No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty--none less inclined to touch or take aught which they have not honestly earned. [7]
No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty; none less inclined to take or touch aught which they have not honestly earned. [7]
But his whole appearance showed plainly enough that he was bred to occupations of a very different nature, if, in deed, he had been accustomed to any kind of toil for his living. [6]
Whatever of toil and tribulation the future held in store, this day marked a step forward in the work to which David had set his life. [11]
Hitherto her toil and money have been wasted. [10]
Alciphron is clever, and has a lucky hand, in which the liquid gold we press from the olives with so much toil, and keep so carefully, becomes coined metal. [10]

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