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Example sentences for "toilsome"

Lexicographically close words:
toilette; toilettes; toilful; toiling; toils; toilsomely; toime; toimes; tois; toise
  1. On reaching the Sierra, they were shown another pass by some Indians they met with, which was less dangerous, although farther over, and quite as toilsome in crossing.

  2. It is a long, toilsome journey; and at its end opens at the base of a hill a day and a half's journey towards the west," replied the chief.

  3. We are partners now, you know, dearest," she would say gaily, when he would sometimes urge the fatigue and occasionally even the risk of these long and toilsome rides.

  4. At length, after a toilsome ride, during which not an enemy was seen, except here and there the body of a dead one lying in a pool of blood, they crested the brow of the second ridge.

  5. The commanders of the Bourbon troops had no disposition to enter upon toilsome expeditions, which offered small prospect of success, merely to avenge the wrongs of the peasants; but now matters have changed.

  6. The first part of the march towards Reggio was an extremely toilsome one.

  7. The toilsome ascent through the soft snow and brushwood delayed the coolies, who scarcely accomplished five miles in the day.

  8. Over land and rivers they took their toilsome way, As far as in days a hundred a pasturing herd may stray, Until the land of the Hegelings lay before them stretching.

  9. Then spake the earl yet further: "It now has happened well, After our toilsome wanderings, and all that us befell.

  10. You hold yourself too highly, as I have heard it said; For this shall work most toilsome soon upon you be laid.

  11. They had not hoped beforehand that rest like this their toilsome life would sweeten.

  12. My bidding kindly take; Strongly built is the castle, let now the gates be fastened; They then will gain but little who on their toilsome way have hither hastened.

  13. The snow was still quite deep on the flats and the moisture had softened the soil which had not frozen sufficiently to hold up the heavy freight wagons, which made it a tedious and toilsome trip to reach the river.

  14. Out across Five Mile Creek and up the divide along the old Camp Supply route until we reached the summit, we made our toilsome way.

  15. The progress was slow, and eleven toilsome days passed before they reached their destination.

  16. This settled the question, and David returned with Henry Myers to his wagon, and accompanied him for several days on his slow and toilsome journey westward.

  17. Great was the luxury when, at the close of a toilsome day, a few pieces of bark could be so piled as to protect from wind and rain, and a roaring fire could blaze and crackle before the little camp.

  18. But their progress was far more slow and toilsome than they had anticipated.

  19. Between twenty and thirty days were occupied in the toilsome and perilous journey.

  20. Tying their legs together, he slung them over his shoulder, and with this additional burden pressed on his toilsome way.

  21. I hold now but little in my hand, appeals not to a single but to a twofold sense; he ministers alike to taste and to smell, and I must own, after a toilsome walk, with commendable results.

  22. There was of course no railway in that part of the world in those days, and anyone undertaking to travel from St. Paul to Fort Garry entered upon a journey which was not only toilsome but perilous.

  23. He stole away in the dead silence of night, and after a toilsome march of some hours in a blinding snow-storm, took refuge in the house of a friendly settler in the parish of Kildonan.

  24. One important result of this long and toilsome journey was the construction of Dundas Street, or, as it is frequently called, "the Governor's Road.

  25. His life was necessarily a toilsome one, and his financial remuneration was little more than nominal.

  26. Sung yun in the sixth century and Huean Ts'ang in the seventh are conspicuous among those who undertook this toilsome pilgrimage in the interest of the faith.

  27. They drew their limbs and bodies together, as if to present the least surface to the inclement showers, and their labored, toilsome motion contrasted painfully with their strong, free movement on brighter days.

  28. Nearly all of the passing thousands were too much engrossed in the miseries of their toilsome progress to notice the blue-coated figure on the bare knob above the road.

  29. To battle with Life’s ills they go— Those hopeful hearts and strong— Nor shrink they from the toilsome march, To struggle fierce and long.

  30. His blue eyes looked dim and sunken, his long hair hung tangled round his head, and his once respectable clothing bore traces of hasty and toilsome journeying.

  31. She would not let me go alone to the distant north, to which some luckless impulse drove me in my old age, and so she came with me on my toilsome journey.

  32. O shining light, O beacon, polestar, path and guide of all Who, scorning slumber and the lazy down, Adopt the toilsome life of bloodstained arms!

  33. What is the difference between a squirrel in the cage who only makes his prison go round the faster by his swift race, and the man who lives toilsome days for transitory objects which he may never attain?

  34. He crosses now the ice-bound flood, And hails the light at the open door That tells his toilsome journey's o'er.

  35. It is to you he looks for comfort--to you, sir, whom his efforts were all made to please, and for whose praise his weary nights and toilsome days were offered.

  36. The drifting rain, and the spongy heavy ground in which at each moment the feet sank to the very instep, made the way toilsome and weary, and the two brothers seldom spoke as they plodded along the steep ascent.

  37. After a brief but toilsome exertion he reached the top, and seated himself on a little pile of stones that marked the point of the mountain.

  38. After a long and toilsome progress through pathless and deeply shaded wilds, we reached, in the afternoon, the forest inn kept by Godeau and his wife.

  39. For many a toilsome league our prospect consisted of nothing but dreary hillocks and intervening wastes, more barren and mournful than those to which Mary Magdalene retired.

  40. At length the toilsome height attain'd, Quick fled the moon, and sudden stillness reign'd.

  41. But the greater part of the desert, being totally destitute of water, is seldom visited by any human being, unless where the trading caravans trace out their toilsome and dangerous route across it.

  42. The journey homeward was exceedingly toilsome and dangerous, and as conditions remained unchanged for many years, at this season when winter was relaxing its hold, it may be worth while to note some of the incidents on the route.

  43. After a toilsome journey of thirty-seven miles over a country alternating between mountains and swamps, the courier reached lake Temiscouata.

  44. As the boy grew up, and witnessed the increasing cruelty with which conformity was enforced, he determined to quit the country; and, accompanied by twelve other young men, he succeeded in reaching Geneva after a toilsome journey of eight days.

  45. There was nothing for it but to fall back once more; and, after a toilsome journey, they reached Fort Grey on the 2nd of October.

  46. Through the weary toilsome years of arduous discovery, Man and Nature had seldom marched side by side as friends and allies.

  47. On October 12th, a toilsome march commenced, following the shore to the southward.

  48. Fate relented, however, and after much toilsome search Forrest found a small supply of water, enough for a few days, where he gratefully awaited the approach of his companions.

  49. The lingering twilight served to show them through this Serbonian bog, but deserted them almost totally at the bottom of a steep and very stony hill, which it was the travellers' next toilsome task to ascend.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "toilsome" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abstruse; arduous; brutal; burdensome; complex; critical; crushing; delicate; demanding; difficult; draining; exacting; exhausting; fatiguing; forced; formidable; grueling; hairy; hard; heavy; hefty; intricate; killing; knotted; knotty; labored; laborious; mean; onerous; operose; oppressive; painful; punishing; rigorous; rough; rugged; severe; spiny; steep; stiff; strained; straining; strenuous; stressful; terrible; thorny; ticklish; tiresome; tiring; toilsome; tough; tricky; troublesome; trying; uphill; wearisome; wearying; wicked