All 5 Uses of
laborious
in
David Copperfield
- He showed me that it was covered with manuscript, very closely and laboriously written; but so plainly, that as I looked along the lines, I thought I saw some allusion to King Charles the First's head again, in one or two places.†
Chpt 13-15 *
- It was very hard, but I turned back, though with a heavy heart, and began laboriously and methodically to plod over the same tedious ground at a snail's pace; stopping to examine minutely every speck in the way, on all sides, and making the most desperate efforts to know these elusive characters by sight wherever I met them.†
Chpt 37-39
- When she had entered two or three laborious items in the account-book, Jip would walk over the page, wagging his tail, and smear them all out.†
Chpt 43-45
- Stimulated by the silent monitor within, and by a no less touching and appealing monitor without — to whom I will briefly refer as Miss W. — I entered on a not unlaborious task of clandestine investigation, protracted — now, to the best of my knowledge, information, and belief, over a period exceeding twelve calendar months.†
Chpt 52-54
- It is laborious, is it not?'†
Chpt 58-60
Definition:
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(laborious) difficult (requiring hard work)