All 4 Uses of
laborious
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- The floor of the abbe's cell was paved, and it had been by raising one of the stones in the most obscure corner that Faria had to been able to commence the laborious task of which Dantes had witnessed the completion.†
Chpt 17-18 *
- I hoped that the active and laborious life of a smuggler, with the severe discipline on board, would have a salutary effect on his character, which was now well-nigh, if not quite, corrupt.†
Chpt 43-44
- "No," he murmured, "none of my enemies would have waited so patiently and laboriously for so long a space of time, that they might now come and crush me with this secret.†
Chpt 71-72
- No, it is not existence, then, that I regret, but the ruin of projects so slowly carried out, so laboriously framed.†
Chpt 89-90
Definition:
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(laborious) difficult (requiring hard work)