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  • The headlights turned in an erratic arc away from me, and then I heard the engine laboriously recede into the distance, and I continued to listen until not only had it ceased but my memory of how it sounded had also ceased.†   (source)
  • She kept her eyes on her work and moved the big broom back and forth laboriously.†   (source)
  • At some point he gets up, laboriously removing his shoes and socks, and walks calf-deep into the water, regarding the surroundings with his hands on his hips, his chin thrust pridefully into the air.†   (source)
  • I know, but I saved the most laborious one for last.†   (source)
  • The school didn't have its students learn programming by the laborious computer-card system, like virtually everyone else was doing in the 1960s.†   (source)
  • Outside, Tyrion swallowed a lungful of the cold morning air and began his laborious descent of the steep stone steps that corkscrewed around the exterior of the library tower.†   (source)
  • Slow shuffles and laborious thuds.†   (source)
  • Arthur looked down at Marvin, who now made an equally big show of turning round laboriously and trudging off down into the crater again muttering sour nothings to himself.†   (source)
  • After my laborious conquest, I've distanced myself a little from the situation, but you mustn't think my love has cooled.†   (source)
  • Laboriously I began to climb and scramble for it—over and around the chunks of concrete—but I had not got very far when I realized that I was going to have to go the other way.†   (source)
  • He spread the silks on the desk and began the laborious task of decoding.†   (source)
  • In the caretaker's apartment, Jack Torrance's head jerked around at the high, wasplike buzz of the approaching engine, and suddenly began to move laboriously toward the hallway again.†   (source)
  • After he carefully tied Brom to the makeshift litter, Saphira grasped the saplings and laboriously took flight.†   (source)
  • Subsequently Nelson began each day by standing with his face three inches from the framed mirror and laboriously combing his scant hair in our living room, while smiling so broadly we feared his molars would pop out.†   (source)
  • Later I wrapped the body in vines, laboriously climbed the eighty meters of cliff, and-pausing frequently to pant with exhaustion-pulled the broken corpse up to me.†   (source)
  • His colleague smiled, but then rose with a sigh, laboriously put on his jacket, and signed to Elinor to follow him.†   (source)
  • Kochu Maria sawed up the rest of the cake messily, laboriously, breathing through her mouth, as though she was carving a hunk of roast lamb.†   (source)
  • The doors of the trucks had been closed, and the train was starting off, slowly and laboriously.†   (source)
  • He clambered laboriously onto the railing and dropped down onto the other side of it.†   (source)
  • He moved slowly, the heaviness in his chest seeming to seep into his limbs, making every step laborious and painful.†   (source)
  • The 17 hours of laborious, tedious, painstaking operating on such tiny patients had progressed well, all things considered.†   (source)
  • Edward finished in minutes; I slogged laboriously through my calculus until I decided it was time to fix Charlie's dinner.†   (source)
  • When I think of formal scientific method an image sometimes comes to mind of an enormous juggernaut, a huge bulldozer…slow, tedious lumbering, laborious, but invincible.†   (source)
  • So he taught himself Greek at the age of thirty-five and began the laborious job of translating the Bible from the ancient Greek version into German.†   (source)
  • Not the Windward or Leeward Island colonies, mark you, but within, of course, the Greater of the two Antilles (while the precision of my prose may be, at times, laborious, it is necessary that I identify myself to you clearly).†   (source)
  • Nadia bolted her door and laboriously pushed her sofa against it, so that it was now barricaded from within.†   (source)
  • Unredeemed by shared tenderness, the time was spent in laborious gropings, pullings, yankings and jerkings.†   (source)
  • She did not hear her feet scraping down the broad stairs, or the courthouse clock laboriously strike two-thirty; she did not feel the dank air of the first floor.†   (source)
  • Vanger stood up, laboriously again, and took the photograph of Harriet Vanger from the desk.†   (source)
  • Perhaps such secrets, the secrets of everyone, were only expressed when the person laboriously dragged them into the light of the world, imposed them on the world, and made them a part of the world's experience.†   (source)
  • She staggers, falls to the ground, then rises laboriously.†   (source)
  • The threadbare attempt at a reception was gotten through laboriously.†   (source)
  • Subject searches usually produced more articles, but weeding through them was a laborious process, and she didn't have time to do it now.†   (source)
  • There was a bus standing in the street and they climbed laboriously aboard.†   (source)
  • On a certain occasion Aureliano was there working on his silver, and Pilar Ternera leaned over the table to admire his laborious patience.†   (source)
  • He was stark naked and the mud was cold, so he pulled himself up and laboriously climbed the bank.†   (source)
  • Then the tone arm shifted laterally and the disc began to spin and this series of laboriously linked actions with their noises and pauses and teeterings, their dimwit delays, seemed to place him in some lost mechanical age with the pendulum clock and hand-cranked motorcar.†   (source)
  • Haji Ali, slowed by age, knelt laboriously to touch the simple stone placed above the spot where Sakina had been buried facing Mecca.†   (source)
  • Laboriously they climbed a sharp slope and halted for a moment at the top.†   (source)
  • And I rebuilt it, slowly, laboriously, and then made a gift of it to a distant descendant.†   (source)
  • She tried to explain Miguel's point of view: that it was not possible to keep waiting for the slow passage of history, the laborious process of educating and organizing the people, because the world was moving ahead by leaps and bounds and they were being left behind; and that radical change is never brought about willingly and without violence.†   (source)
  • It was a laborious process: lift, grab, pass needle, mop, pass needle to other side, mop, tie, relax the pull on liver.†   (source)
  • It was a laborious process, but then again ….†   (source)
  • They proceeded slowly, laboriously in the heavy snow, passing through the village of Saratoga, then on to Albany, where Knox was busy cutting holes in the frozen Hudson in order to strengthen the ice.†   (source)
  • They said it together but said nothing more and the three of them stood awkwardly while the elevator made its laborious, cranking ascent.†   (source)
  • They watched the edge of the woods as the darkness fell and the Eddisians camping there laboriously moved their cannon into position.†   (source)
  • It was a laborious process.†   (source)
  • Paige is laboriously wheeling herself down the street.†   (source)
  • There was nothing to justify the five years of work and the millions spent; nothing but empty excavations, laboriously cut.†   (source)
  • But at moments like this, when she was alone, a little weary, a little discouraged, the woman inside crept out, and with her, all the tiny doubts and fears behind that laboriously built wall.†   (source)
  • That involves typing in a phonetic version of each Chinese word and having it converted to the Chinese character, a very laborious process.†   (source)
  • The mare snorted and they began the slow, laborious process of turning the cart around.†   (source)
  • AMUSA waits for them to leave, then writes in the notebook, somewhat laboriously.†   (source)
  • Otto was still involved in the laborious process of deciding how to kill someone as small as Tradd when he had to reverse the process and decide how to deal with someone as large as Mark Santoro.†   (source)
  • Out of this right he has built, laboriously and lovingly, something we reverently call democracy.†   (source)
  • It had a life of its own, but that life was suddenly shattered when lightning struck amid the snow, homing for the iron that had been laboriously driven into high points.†   (source)
  • Red's pace was more laborious.†   (source)
  • Long and laborious study will be needed to acquire a competent knowledge of them.†   (source)
  • In early February, Jimmy Frank and Harold laboriously filled washtub after washtub with manure and then transported them on a slide pulled by an old mule to the holes that were dug.†   (source)
  • The astonished survivors, the lucky ones, were hauling themselves laboriously from the rubble.†   (source)
  • Obviously, it was a very laborious venture and none of the Duckmen knew much of anything about filmmaking.†   (source)
  • I ran the canoe ashore and, fearfully laden with cameras, guns, binoculars and other gear, laboriously climbed the shifting sands of the esker to the shadowy place where the female wolf had disappeared.†   (source)
  • Each one has an error like this, laboriously worked into the design, like a taunt.†   (source)
  • As a student at Duke, I had read the master laboriously in French.†   (source)
  • She sits a moment, and then starts straight over the tabletop, dishware notwithstanding; ANNIE hauls her in and deposits her back, with her plate spilling in her lap, and she melts to the floor and crawls under the table, laborious among its legs and chairs; but ANNIE is swift around the table and waiting on the other side when she surfaces, immediately bearing her aloft; HELEN clutches at JAMES'S chair for anchorage, but it comes with her, and halfway back she abandons it to the…†   (source)
  • Still, she made the effort, laboriously working out a couple of lines and getting them wrong and finally translating the last line to read, "Perhaps and this it will help to remember."†   (source)
  • At the head of their bed she had a cloth she'd laboriously embroidered before the operation, when the last of her eyesight went.†   (source)
  • These had been his possession, his power and strength, his solid staff; in the busy, laborious years of his youth, he had learned these three feats, nothing else.†   (source)
  • This was not a question, but the first stage of a laborious fact-finding investigation.†   (source)
  • A beetle could not have been more laborious or more ingenious in the task of its destiny.†   (source)
  • She followed him to the car and watched him get laboriously into the front seat.†   (source)
  • I learned a lot about the period, but it was bloody laborious.†   (source)
  • The flight was laborious for Saphira; she glided whenever she could.†   (source)
  • Even in these ordinary gestures, Laila noted a laborious quality to his movements.†   (source)
  • Something had just crossed his mind, a new fact to be laboriously added into the equation.†   (source)
  • The prince turned his chair laboriously to face her.†   (source)
  • "My name is Karl Axel Bodin," Zalachenko said laboriously through clenched teeth.†   (source)
  • They began laboriously dragging her up the beach.†   (source)
  • Laborious as it was, he enjoyed the writing, for he found thechallenges it presented stimulating.†   (source)
  • Salander heard a noise behind her and spun around to see Lundin laboriously getting to his knees.†   (source)
  • It was a laborious process, but not devoid of interest.†   (source)
  • Connecting Shiva's liver, or rather his right lobe, was a laborious process.†   (source)
  • Zalachenko laboriously got up and fumbled for his crutches.†   (source)
  • But even that laborious process was an improvement from the school's status a few months earlier.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist felt pain in his neck and jaw as he got laboriously to his feet, feeling dizzy.†   (source)
  • Palmgren stood up laboriously from his wheelchair.†   (source)
  • The column moved slowly, laboriously, as each mourner paused to look deeply into the image of death.†   (source)
  • Not talk, probably; that was too laborious, and the older one would hear nothing.†   (source)
  • To whom it may concern, Jimmy had written, in ballpoint rather than printout: his computer was fried by then, but he'd persevered, laboriously, by hand.†   (source)
  • It had been for some time, and now even the thought of those laborious sessions of lying beneath Rasheed made Mariam queasy in the gut.†   (source)
  • Once we had the transcription in hand — and we had to go over it several times, owing to the difficulties posed by accent, obscure referents, and archaisms — we had to make some decision as to the nature of the material we had thus so laboriously acquired.†   (source)
  • Throwing aside the no longer glowing hairbrush, Harry stood up, swaying slightly, and saw Mrs. Weasley and Ginny running down the steps by the back door as Hagrid, who had also collapsed on landing, clambered laboriously to his feet.†   (source)
  • Hence his indignation, his fervour, his assiduousness, his laborious petitions and committees; and above all, his desire to believe her innocent.†   (source)
  • He backed carefully away from the phone, and when he gained the room's one reasonably clear area, he began the laborious job of turning the wheelchair around, careful not to bump the occasional table as he did so.†   (source)
  • Clients huddled restlessly at the base of the rock for nearly an hour while Beidleman-taking over the duties of an absent Lopsang-laboriously ran the rope out.†   (source)
  • Although the road to the establishment of a league of nations is laborious, it is our duty to work for the "universal and lasting securing of peace."†   (source)
  • She put her front paws down on the rock, and, laboriously, pushed herself up into a standing position: a grey wolf bigger than a bear, her coat and muzzle flecked with blood.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I imagine leaving, going home to see Mother and Adah, at least, but the logistics of money and travel and a passport are too laborious even to imagine.†   (source)
  • When asked to clear a leash tangled around her feet, Essay would crouch and leap, avoiding in one adroit move the laborious process of stepping out of the loops.†   (source)
  • Laura was lying on the floor, kicking her sock feet in the air, laboriously transcribing our scribbled-over collaboration into her book.†   (source)
  • Elinor had her work cut out getting herself up the hillside, which was crisscrossed with low walls that had been built in a laborious attempt to wrest narrow fields and orchards from the poor soil, somewhere to grow a few olive trees and grapevines, anything that would bear fruit here.†   (source)
  • This was easier than following the fixed lines, but once he was below the level of the rock steps it meant that he had to make a laborious 330-foot rising traverse through knee-deep snow to regain the route.†   (source)
  • I'd taken care to keep blood off the towels; with toilet paper, which I compulsively wadded and flushed every few moments, I mopped up, laboriously, the rusty smears and drips on the tile.†   (source)
  • I could become her biographer, be drawn into her life, and into excuses for her or blame of her, but that seemed like an impractical, laborious, and failing substitute for what I had missed in the last twenty-two years.†   (source)
  • It took the better part of an hour, laboriously pushing the car back and forth, to align it in front of the shed.†   (source)
  • With daylight waning, Schoening and Madsen therefore began dragging Ngawang laboriously down the mountain, using the deflated Gamow Bag as a makeshift toboggan, while guide Neal Beidleman and a team of Sherpas climbed as quickly as they could from Base Camp to meet them.†   (source)
  • My hair had dried in knots too tangled to yank the comb through, and even after I doused it in water and started over, one chunk was so matted I finally gave up and sawed it out, laboriously, with a pair of rusted nail scissors from the drawer.†   (source)
  • First, he relayed a message to me that some spare batteries were stashed in one of the IMAX tents on the Col; by midafternoon I'd found them, allowing Hall's team to re-establish radio contact with the lower camps, Then Breashears offered his expedition's Supply of oxygen-fifty canisters that had been laboriously carried to 26,000 feet-to the ailing climbers and would-be rescuers on the Col. Even though this threatened to put his $5.†   (source)
  • Even if I didn't bang it — Jack, laboriously, had done the math for me on the inside of a Quarter Pounder wrapper —I would be looking at a much more reasonable expenditure, something in the neighborhood of four hundred and fifty dollars a month.†   (source)
  • The two boys had been let out of Morning Exercises-Cort had read the notes from their fathers laboriously, lips moving, nodding here and there.†   (source)
  • From time to time they get up, unbuckling themselves laboriously, and hobble to the back of the plane, to smoke cigarettes and line up for the washroom.†   (source)
  • Still, he was confident enough about the draft that he laboriously transcribed the full text in his own hand, and later sent the copy to Abigail, who, understandably, thought he had written the Declaration.†   (source)
  • Even lifting a finger became a task that he found irritating in the extreme, as well as one that was almost unbearably laborious.†   (source)
  • Mistakes are made, regrets form, and all that was left were repercussions that made something as simple as rising from the bed seem almost laborious.†   (source)
  • If you or I had gone through the same experience— which involved sending televisions back, and laborious comparison of the tiniest electronic details and warranty fine print — I suspect we would have found it hellish.†   (source)
  • But the laborious, loving way, the way of dignity and divinity, presupposes a belief in people and in their capacity to change, grow, communicate, and love.†   (source)
  • The lower-court federal judges will be selected for their knowledge of the laws, learned through long and laborious study.†   (source)
  • "That's because she is fond of you, too," suggested Gray, thinking of the girl's laborious attempts to teach poor Mandy to dance.†   (source)
  • I waited until we had both unspooled the long tongue of line over the lake, until the flies that my grandfather laboriously tied in his basement had lightly come to rest on the surface.†   (source)
  • More to his liking was an item in a Baltimore paper describing him as "an old fielder," which as he explained to Abigail, "is a tough, hardy, laborious little horse that works very hard and lives upon very little, very useful to his master at small expense."†   (source)
  • Most of what I do is drawing, because the preparation of the surface, the laborious underpainting and detailed concentration of egg tempera are too much for me.†   (source)
  • "I know there's a laborious procedure you have to follow," she says, "in order to attain a positive state of mind.†   (source)
  • (Of the II() Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation that he had laboriously copied down as a boy, Rule Number One read: "Every action done in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those who are present.†   (source)
  • They knew, as I did, that a five-hundred-meter stretch along the river was defended only by a dozen riflemen who were supposed to pick off whoever might laboriously climb into the watercourse, swim the river, and climb out.†   (source)
  • She released Thorn and pushed herself away from him, raising her wings and laboriously flapping as she endeavored to keep them aloft.†   (source)
  • The work seemed so laborious to him and the thought of Petra Cotes was so persistent and pressing that after three weeks he disappeared from the workshop.†   (source)
  • And after a goat or a cow or a child loses its life locating them, demining teams paint rocks in the area red before they can spare the months it can take to laboriously clear them.†   (source)
  • He stood staring down at his big, shuffling feet, laboriously sorting in his own mind such phrases as it might do to use.†   (source)
  • Late one afternoon, while the male wolves were still resting in preparation for the night's labors, she emerged from the den and nuzzled Uncle Albert until he yawned, stretched and got laboriously to his feet.†   (source)
  • Clinton got to his feet laboriously.†   (source)
  • His blackheads bled and he cut his upper lip as he tried to shape a mustache of blond fuzz and when it was all over he looked the same as before, but the laborious process gave Amaranta the feeling that she had begun to grow old at that moment.†   (source)
  • Not until the spring of 1978 was he given a passport in the name of Karl Axel Bodin, along with a laboriously crafted personal history—a fictitious but verifiable background in Swedish records.†   (source)
  • It was a kind of Chinese toy, made up of five concentric boxes, and in the last one there was a card laboriously inscribed by someone who could barely write:We'll get together Saturday at the movies .†   (source)
  • In the room devoured by rubble, whose unchecked proliferation had finally defeated it, he thought about the best way to frame the request, but when he found Fernanda taking her meal from the embers, which was his only chance to speak to her, the laboriously formulated request stuck in his throat and he lost his voice.†   (source)
  • Malm didn't think it was a great idea for Blomkvist to set off on some wild scheme just when the magazine's editor in chief had deserted to the Big Daily, and now Millennium's laboriously reconstructed stability was suddenly hanging in the balance once again.†   (source)
  • "It's been a laborious rehabilitation for him, and it's only in the past few months that we have been able to see improvements.†   (source)
  • He had been able to follow her laborious progress from unruly teenager to young woman to employee at Milton Security—a job she had obtained through Palmgren's own contacts.†   (source)
  • The relatively limited technology to which Trinity had access meant that he had to park his van on Bergsgatan or one of the nearby streets and laboriously calibrate the equipment until he had identified the fingerprint that represented Ekström's mobile number.†   (source)
  • Doing a hostile takeover, even with Plague's brilliant programme and his specially designed hardware, was a laborious process that required slipping bits of information into a computer one kilobyte at a time until a simple piece of software had been created.†   (source)
  • She still had furniture in the apartment, laboriously collected over time from various trash containers, along with some chipped mugs, two older computers, and a lot of paper.†   (source)
  • So on Friday of Valentine's week, four of the girls and I laboriously fluttered and putted in choppy waters toward the landing in Bluffton.†   (source)
  • Yet for each dustpan he so laboriously rilled at the doorsill demons added to the rug twenty more; he saw in the expanse behind him the dust that he had raised settling again into the carpet; and he gritted his teeth, already on edge because of the dust that filled his mouth, and nearly wept to think that so much labor brought so little reward.†   (source)
  • Night after night she held the math books and conducted quizzes on geometry and algebra, laboriously checking my solutions against those in the back of the books and, when I erred, struggling along with me to discover where I'd gone wrong.†   (source)
  • How should he not know love, he, who has discovered all elements of human existence in their transitoriness, in their meaninglessness, and yet loved people thus much, to use a long, laborious life only to help them, to teach them!†   (source)
  • "Yes, yes, I should like to in one moment," he replied, getting laboriously to his feet and pulling the ends of his gold-rimmed spectacles over his ears.†   (source)
  • It was old, and dirty, and brown, and torn; he recognized Deborah's uncertain, trembling hand, and he could see her again in the cabin, bending over the table, laboriously trusting to paper the bitterness she had not spoken.†   (source)
  • Mike did not no ho shoot him fadher one he fond out h." This was Cindy Lou, who proudly produced this composition after fifteen minutes of laborious effort.†   (source)
  • Ten minutes later, Hodge seated in his car again, the Judge came out, walking slowly, as if not from age and drunkenness but by laborious choice, and climbed tortuously into his car and ground on the starter, with the key off perhaps, and at last got the motor going.†   (source)
  • He'd made a pattern with a piece of oil-stained cardboard, had drawn it onto the wood and had laboriously cut it out with the keyhole saw.†   (source)
  • Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.†   (source)
  • The silent resignation that a laborious life had given it seemed to light up with a sudden glow.†   (source)
  • There might be some simpler way, some less laborious way, she sighed.†   (source)
  • What shock can loosen my laboriously gathered, relentlessly pressed down life?†   (source)
  • Then, laboriously in French: " Je crois qua vous avez un erreur."†   (source)
  • He went up the stairs, sobbing laboriously.†   (source)
  • Slowly, laboriously, she heaved herself over and pulled her heavy skirts up to her thighs.†   (source)
  • In every department of life it marks the transition from dreaming aspiration to laborious doing.†   (source)
  • There he entered the Seminary and began a life of laborious study.†   (source)
  • Sir Grummore and King Pellinore laboriously got up.†   (source)
  • She counted it laboriously, turning over the notes and the coins to make sure what they were.†   (source)
  • On those to which the King had agreed, he had written laboriously "Le roy le veult."†   (source)
  • Heaves the proud harlot her distended breast, in intricacies of laborious song.†   (source)
  • He found it a laborious business, as if he were manipulating a language that he had forgotten.†   (source)
  • "Qu'est-ce qu'il y a?" he began laboriously.†   (source)
  • The old man's thoughts went laboriously.†   (source)
  • …up the walk, between the slow, thought-brewing, beat-up old heads, liver-spotted, of choked old blood salts and wastes, hard and bone-bare domes, or swollen, the elevens of sinews up on collarless necks crazy with the assaults of Kansas heats and Wyoming freezes, and with the strains of kitchen toil, Far West digging, Cincinnati retailing, Omaha slaughtering, peddling, harvesting, laborious or pegging enterprise from whale-sized to infusorial that collect into the labor of the nation.†   (source)
  • By the standards of the early twentieth century, even a member of the Inner Party lives an austere, laborious kind of life.†   (source)
  • So now Andre Marty sat working over his map at the bare table with the raw light on the unshaded electric light bulb over his head, the overwide beret pulled forward to shade his eyes, referring to the mimeographed copy of the orders for the attack and slowly and laboriously working them out on the map as a young officer might work a problem at a staff college.†   (source)
  • "On his laborious journey," reports another observer, the shaman has to encounter and master a number of differing obstacles (pudak) which are not always easily overcome.†   (source)
  • He was like Christ", I remember his saying, in his emphatic sententious way, as he tried very laboriously to explain Nettleship's philosophy; he lent us the book; it was at Warboys that I remember him explaining Plato to me and Nessa and Marny Vaughan.†   (source)
  • He was digging in his garden–digging, too, in his own mind, laboriously turning up the substance of his thought.†   (source)
  • Sometimes she made what she had named Weg Geschnissen, which laboriously translated meant something made with bread bits that usually would be thrown away.†   (source)
  • He lay silent and quite still, breathing laboriously; only his open eyes, which sometimes moved about the room, gave any sign of consciousness.†   (source)
  • He did not plod laboriously through the centuries; he danced, said the critics, down the road of the ages, as a jester, a friend and a prophet.†   (source)
  • Though he groped for words, it wasn't fury that halted his speech, but a kind of invincible stubbornness that kept laboriously intrenching itself deeper and deeper.†   (source)
  • …either had never known or the shock of her exodus from it had driven the name forever from her mind and memory) her mentality had been capable of coercing food and shelter from, and married her, held her very hand doubtless while she made the laborious cross on the register before she even knew his name or knew that he was not a white man (and this last none knew even now if she knew for certain, even after the son was born in one of the dilapidated slave cabins which he rebuilt after…†   (source)
  • He looked up at me with a laborious motion of the head and an expression of question on his face as though I were the fellow who was supposed to answer.†   (source)
  • But he had learned to read in Spanish from the priests in California, and as soon as the child could walk Burden (he pronounced it Burden now, since he could not spell it at all and the priests had taught him to write it laboriously so with a hand more apt for a rope or a gunbutt or a knife than a pen) began to read to the child in Spanish from the book which he had brought with him from California, interspersing the fine, sonorous flowing of mysticism in a foreign tongue with harsh,…†   (source)
  • Thus, with some time on your hands and with some book learning in your brains—you have had enough of the other kind, and are sent to college partly, I suspect, to be uneducated—surely you should embark upon another stage of your very long, very laborious and highly obscure career.†   (source)
  • Once every six months an examination paper was delivered, and Mrs Fellows laboriously worked through the answers and awarded marks.†   (source)
  • Attended with the creaking of hinges and the screeching of bolts, the slamming and banging of damp-swollen woodwork, some rusty laborious birth seemed to be taking place, as the women, stooping, rising, groaning, singing, slapped and slammed, upstairs now, now down in the cellars.†   (source)
  • He has taken from his shirt a scrap of soiled paper and a chewed pencil stub, and bending over the edge of the porch, he writes, laborious and hurried, while the negress watches him: Mr. Wat Kenedy Dear sir please give barer My reward Money for captain Murder Xmas rapp it up in Paper 4 given it toe barer yrs truly He does not, sign it, He snatches it up, glaring at it, while the negress watches him.†   (source)
  • It was not as if the draftsman had sat over them, pondering laboriously, piecing together doors, windows and columns, as his whim dictated and as the books prescribed.†   (source)
  • Now, Hampton Court—Hampton Court—the words beat a gong in the space which I have so laboriously cleared with half a dozen telephone messages and post cards, give off ring after ring of sound, booming, sonorous: and pictures rise—summer afternoons, boats, old ladies holding their skirts up, one urn in winter, some daffodils in March—these all float to the top of the waters that now lie deep on every scene.†   (source)
  • As she fumbled among the boxes stacked on the shelves, fumbled and sighed laboriously, and muttered about the dark, her husband watched her, flexing and unflexing nervous hands.†   (source)
  • But I already knew what she thought the academy would look like: a beaten-up frame house of dead-drunk jerry-builders under dusty laborious trees, laundry boiling in the yard, pinched chickens of misfortune, rioting kids, my blind mother wearing my old shoes and George cobblering, me with a crate of bees in the woods.†   (source)
  • Didn't you foresee that it would just kill by contrast all the trumpery which you have been so laboriously teaching him to value?†   (source)
  • As we made our halting, laborious way forward, away from the flying smuts of the smoke stack, we were alternately jostled together, then strained, nearly sundered, arms and fingers interlocked as I held the rail and Julia clung to me, thrust together again, drawn apart; then, in a plunge deeper than the rest, I found myself flung across her, pressing her against the rail, warding myself off her with the arms that held her prisoner on either side, and as the ship paused at the end of…†   (source)
  • Their lives now, they reasoned, were hungry and laborious; was it not right and just that a better world should exist somewhere else?†   (source)
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