Both Uses of
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Arrowsmith
- On the glossy green cover, in red and black, were the portraits of the president, a round quippish man who loved all young physicians; the general manager, a cadaverous scholarly man who surely gave all his laborious nights and days to the advancement of science; and the vice-president, Martin's former preceptor, Dr. Roscoe Geake, who had a lively, eye-glassed, forward-looking modernity all his own.†
Chpt 15
- He rushed up-stairs to the library, consulted the American and English authorities and, laboriously, the French and German.†
Chpt 28 *
Definition:
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(laborious) difficult (requiring hard work)