Both Uses of
laborious
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- 'Thanking you for your advice which was not required, Mr Browdie,' returned Miss Squeers, with laborious politeness, 'have the goodness not to presume to meddle with my Christian name.†
Chpt 42 *
- He felt sick and exhausted, but could taste nothing save a glass of water, and continued to sit with his head upon his hand; not resting nor thinking, but laboriously trying to do both, and feeling that every sense but one of weariness and desolation, was for the time benumbed.†
Chpt 60
Definition:
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(laborious) difficult (requiring hard work)