Both Uses of
laborious
in
Of Human Bondage
- Anatomy was a dreary science, a mere matter of learning by heart an enormous number of facts; dissection bored him; he did not see the use of dissecting out laboriously nerves and arteries when with much less trouble you could see in the diagrams of a book or in the specimens of the pathological museum exactly where they were.†
Chpt 55-56 *laboriously = with difficulty
- That's only a laborious form of idleness.'†
Chpt 67-68laborious = difficult
Definition:
difficult (requiring hard work)