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difficult (requiring hard work)
- But although he was in port, and precisely because he was in port, he never recalled without disquiet the varied haps of his political career, so long uneasy and laborious.1.1.3 — Vol 1 Bk 1 Chpt 3 — Monsieur the Cardinal (40% in)
- If it is in winter, it is yonder, crawling on the carpet, it is laboriously climbing upon an ottoman, and the mother trembles lest it should approach the fire.2.8.5 — Vol 2 Bk 8 Chpt 5 — The Mother (10% in)
- At his feet, some chickens were searching the thickets and pecking, enamelled beetles ran about in the sun; overhead, some groups of dappled gray clouds were floating across the blue sky; on the horizon, the spire of the Abbey Saint-Victor pierced the ridge of the hill with its slate obelisk; and the miller of the Copeaue hillock was whistling as he watched the laborious wings of his mill turning.2.9.1 — Vol 2 Bk 9 Chpt 1 — Delirium (29% in)
There are no more uses of "laborious" in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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