Denmark had never been engaged in so arduous a contest, and never did the Danes more nobly display their national courage--a courage not more unhappily than impolitically exerted in subserviency to the interests of France.
Having seen this effected, and reinforced Captain Ball, he left that able officer to perform a most arduous and important part, and returned himself to cooperate with the intended movements of the Neapolitans.
The drama was interesting, but they had no part in it, and they would certainly have to rise soon after sunup to a long day's arduous toil.
Though he had been to the creamery meeting he was very plainly dressed; his bronzed face and battered nails told their own tale of arduous toil in the open, and there was no doubt that he looked a prairie farmer.
On the Mamiani ministry devolved the very arduous task of reconciling this warlike spirit with the pacific character of the Pontificate.
It was not, surely, the part of prudence, when on the eve of a great andarduous undertaking, to stir up enemies on every side.
He became one of his warmest friends and from that time diligently assisted him in his arduous tasks.
This made the journey quite comfortable, though at times it was arduous enough, since often the trail was very narrow, and many streams and rivers had to be crossed.
The impressions with which I first undertook the arduous trust, were explained on the proper occasion.
It was indeed an arduous task, especially for conscientious men like Washington and his compatriots.
In all this we see the acts of an eminently wise man, intent solely upon the public good, seeking aid in his arduous labors from those in whom he had confidence.
I feel, in the execution of the duties of my arduous office, how much I shall stand in need of the countenance and aid of every friend to myself, of every friend to the Revolution, and of every lover of good government.
I earnestly wished, on account of that friendship, as well as on the score of military talents, to have had the assistance of you and Colonel Hamilton in the arduous scenes with which we are threatened.
The illustrious personage, called by the national voice in succession to the arduous office of guiding a free people, had no difficulties to encounter.
This arduous task devolved on citizens selected by the people, from a knowledge of their wisdom, and confidence in their virtue.
The Carthaginians were engaged in a bloody and arduous contest with their Mercenaries, and the Roman merchants supplied the latter with military stores and provisions.
Emboldened by their predatory warfare, they resolved to attempt a morearduous enterprize.
In their annals of conquest," as Gibbon remarks, "the siege of Alexandria is perhaps the most arduous and important enterprize.
Indeed, we understand that merchants frequently come to the British settlement at Sierra Leone, who represent the route into the interior of Africa and the neighbourhood of the Niger from thence, as by no means arduousor dangerous.
Powerfully actuated by this resolution, they began the arduous undertaking with that ardour and spirit of perseverance, which so eminently distinguished them; they deemed it absolutely necessary to have 120 ships.
On one of Nelson's boat expeditions up a tropical river, the medical chest was unanimously voted a piece of lumber; but, before the arduous voyage had been completed, the only regret was that sufficient medicine had not been taken.
A vessel taking in palm oil once started it into a tank built in the hold, but the task of digging it out when it reached England was so arduous that nothing was saved by not providing casks.
He took a round by the wood before approaching the Cats' Bridge, to brace and harden his nerves for this last and most arduous encounter.
More and more he buried himself in the chaos of papers, which seemed to increase instead of diminish, in spite of his arduous sifting.
The proudest and most arduous moments of his life rose vividly before him.
When their money was all spent they resolved to try the most arduous of adventures, a raid on the ports of the Great South Sea.
Aguirre was not ashamed to boast that he had murdered a woman--not an Indian, but a beautiful Spanish lady, who had accompanied her lover on this arduous journey.
At last, after nine years ofarduous labor since the invention was hailed as successful, the golden harvest so long expected began to replenish the empty treasury.
It is the same great power which now enables us to pay the interest of our debt, and to maintain the arduous struggle in which we are still engaged (1819), with the skill and capital of countries less oppressed with taxation.
Few men have shown more indomitable application to an arduous duty, amid physical weakness and bodily pain, than did the author of these Lectures in their preparation and revision.
For a time it was not expected that she would recover; but, fortunately, she was spared to assist her husband in the arduous labours which followed.
Arriving in Canada, she soon found that campaigning was more arduous than she had imagined.
Three years were spent in the arduous task of converting six of these men.
Peace being at length restored, Alfred, who was a full century in advance of his people, commenced in earnest the arduous task of civilization.
All these, however, I was to please; an arduous task; but what will not youth and avarice undertake?
The Duchess, it was said, was weary of her arduous attendance upon a mistress whom she secretly despised.
In vain did the plot thicken in the scenes that followed, in vain the dialogue wax more passionate and stirring, and the progress of the sentiment point more and more clearly to the arduous developement which impended.
Each felt, that England had never seen a Protector so capable of fulfilling the arduous duties of that high office.
After an hour of arduous tramping they came to an old barn that had been partly burned down.
It was an arduous tramp to the wretched hovel they at last reached.
The excessive depth of each stone makes the ascent an arduous one for women; but the view amply repays one for the exertion.
Pere Hanicq is not paid for his services, {434} troublesome and arduous as you would very soon find his to be if you were porter even here.
To seize Karashar or Korla only needed a bold attack; but to subject Kucha might have been a more arduous undertaking than was even the siege of Manas.
By this time it is probable that the Chinese army had been largely reinforced from the rear, for we have now come to a more arduous portion of the enterprise, the attack against Kucha.
Great care is of course necessary, but the scramble is by no means of so arduous a nature as entirely to absorb the attention; so that a fine climb, and rock scenery, of grandeur perhaps unparalleled in the Alps, can both be appreciated.
If you are out upon an excursion, and find the work becoming so arduous that you have great difficulty in maintaining your balance, you should at once retire, and not imperil the lives of others.
In six days he acquired a knowledge of the wants, peculiarities, weaknesses, and traditions of my constituents which had occupied all my powers of concentration and absorption for six arduous years.
To this delectable microcosm my household and I migrated one bleak day in February, to commence what promised to be an arduous and thoroughly uncomfortable electoral campaign.
The following detail of the 36 ballotings, all alike but the last, appeared in the National Intelligencer at the time, and shows the name and the vote of the different members in this most arduous and eventful struggle.
To aid you in these arduous and honorable exertions, as it is our duty, so it shall be our faithful endeavor.
I am happy in this opportunity of committing the arduousaffairs of our Government to the collected wisdom of the Union.
And then let me ask, being thus impressed with the sense of the duty and the difficulty of performing that arduous task, was it not wise to seize the auspicious moment?
He was now within this city; but, from the wounds he had received in his arduous but unsuccessful conflict, he was unable to walk or to attend to any business.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arduous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
