For several years he was regarded as one of the great originating philanthropists of the age; and this the more because he always gave out that he was laboring in the cause from pure love of the inebriate, and received no compensation.
But instances have occurred of laboring men who have kept themselves steadily drunk for forty-eight hours, and then died.
Physical degeneracy and mental derangements are too often caused by the parents producing offspring while laboring under great mental strain or bodily fatigue.
Nothing is more distressing to a sensitive person, or more ridiculous to one gifted with refinement, than to see a lady laboring under the consciousness of a fine gown or a gentleman who is stiff, awkward and ungainly in a brand-new coat.
For twelve miles we dashed along, laboring under a state of suspense not to be easily forgotten.
The first warning which the party had that one of the men was laboring under a disordered intellect occurred in the following manner.
Upon the silver mountings, there were engraved a very few, but expressive words, indicating the obligations which the donors considered themselves laboring under towards their deliverer.
As soon as he heard this, he aroused himself from the agonizing frame of mind he had been laboring under after parting with all that was so dear to him, and as he had thought, for the last time.
No section shows a more prosperous laboringpopulation than the negroes of the South; none in fuller sympathy with the employing and landowning class.
By the early death of his father, and the very narrow circumstances of his mother, he was, even in childhood, a wandering laboring boy, and grew up literally without education.
Here she remained for nearly two months, laboring zealously for the welfare of a thousand or fifteen hundred wounded men.
She continued in this service until the close of the war, accomplishing much good, and laboringwith much acceptance.
Miss Jane Stuart Woolsey was, and we believe still is laboring in behalf of the Freedmen in Richmond or its vicinity.
One of these Hospitals in which they had been thus laboring till they were completely exhausted, was shelled by the enemy while they were in it, and while it was filled with the wounded.
But while laboring so constantly in the army, Mrs. Wittenmeyer did not overlook the needs of the destitute at home.
In April, 1862, she became satisfied that she could be more useful in the field, by taking good nurses to the army hospitals, and herselflaboring with them.
But from this it also appears how thoroughly theological is the liberation that Feuerbach[14] is laboring to give us.
Laboring does not alone make you a man, because it is something formal and its object accidental; the question is who you that labor are.
According to the work-day side he does not by any means take you as man simply, but as human laborer or laboring man.
A like relation exists between the commonalty and the laboring class.
Yet the ethics of the legal profession are such that this attorney could justify his actions in laboring for months in an endeavor to secure, by any and all means, the conviction of the men on the boat!
It is not a question, and never has been in this case, as to the right of the labor men to organize; the right of the laboring man to use all of the lawful methods for the purpose of bettering his condition.
And Sidney had received no training to lift her above the laboring class, having had even less than the average country education.
She could no longer even blush faintly when the doctor laid his shaggy head against her hard-laboring little heart, listening for its weak fluttering, and hearing the soft knell of the pericardial murmur.
The Marchioness of Drogheda and some other English women are laboring among the wounded and starving on the Yser, within sound of the guns to relieve some little part of the unspeakable misery.
Actually, however, the government wickedly persecuted every attempt to help the laboring people to emerge from the darkness into light, to approach knowledge, to proclaim its own rights.
I was seventeen when, in 1861, the peasants were freed of the violence of the landlords, but were so badly supplied with land that the laboring masses were again forced to go into slavery to the wealthy.
I found him to be an old man probably between sixty and seventy years of age, white hair and beard, blue eyes, a fine stalwart frame, but laboring under intense excitement.
This very protection had taken millions and millions of money from the free laboring population of this country, and put it into the pockets of the owners of Southern machinery.
Nor is it without much weight and importance that the greater part of these effects extend beyond the limits of our own country and affect similarly, and, in some instances, even more severely, the laboring classes of other countries.
Clothing would be greatly enhanced in value, and this, to the laboring man, would be equivalent to a corresponding diminution of food and all the other comforts of life.
And this brings me to a vital point, which Europeans have seemed determined not to comprehend--that of the extremely artificial and fragile character of the political structure which our architects of national ruin arelaboring to construct.
This followed as a logical conclusion from their established dogma that the slavery of the laboring class is the only firm foundation of social order.
His voice always sounds as if he were laboring under a severe attack of influenza, though a large flock of them, heard at a distance on a bright afternoon of early spring, produce an effect not unpleasing.
Already, ever since the arrival of Wehla and Brentano in those parts, he has been laboring under many uncertainties; too many for a Leonidas!
Daun, from whatever Camp, goes laboring on this side and on that; on every side the deft Henri is as sharp as needles; nothing to be made of him by the cunning movements and contrivances of Daun.
He spent six years and a half in this country, laboring assiduously to bring men to the knowledge of the truth; and a deep and wide impression was made by his labors.
As was common with the laboring classes of people in England at that period, their children, instead of being sent to school, were brought up to work from early childhood.
Among these was Mr. Black, who, after laboringfor some time with zeal and success, was appointed the superintendent of the mission in British North America.
As I was laboring up the side of a mountain at the head of a valley, the noble bird sprang from the top of a dry tree above me and came sailing directly over my head.
But the woodchuck, seeing the dog come laboring up the hill, sprang to the mouth of his den, and, when his pursuer was only a few rods off, whistled tauntingly and went in.
They could float easily down the strong current of the great Snake River, laboring but little, if at all.
If the man before him, worn with years, and actually laboring for the breath of life, could be so moved by contempt for the enemy, what of his co-partisans?
If France in the sixteenth century was laboring in the throes of a religious revolution, she was also in a state of industrial transformation.
The intent of this statute was indirectly to restrain the enlarged economic tyranny of the guilds, to lessen the burden of apprenticeship, and to establish freer laboring conditions.
And these facts had lowered his reputation in the court to such an extent that the Guises not only desired to quarrel with him but were continually laboring to effect that result.
We rode some distance in silence, but my mind was laboring hard and I finally managed to ask the question that had been bothering me all the time.
The General said that when this war was won, the combat commands would get the credit--"but it will be these laboring devils in the service of supply that will have won the war.
A not unimportant place in the discussion of the question is occupied by the fact that the flower of the laboring population is at present on active service.
Not only the worker, but the peasant also, must give to the Soviet State his energy, in order to ensure that laboring Russia, and with it the laboring masses, should not be crushed.
This plan has great significance, not only as a general guide for the practical work of our economic organs, but also as a line along which propaganda amongst the laboring masses in connection with our economic problems is to proceed.
We explained to the masses that the Soviets, the revolutionary organizations of the laboring masses themselves, can and must become the true masters.
In spite of political tortures, physical sufferings and horrors, the laboring masses are infinitely distant from political decomposition, from moral collapse, or from apathy.
All through the people," says the representative of the Mensheviks, "no guardians of the laboring masses!
Our compulsion is applied by a workers' and peasants' government, in the name of the interests of the laboring masses.
The gigantic perils again growing up before the revolution, and the great sacrifices again imposed on the laboring masses by the war, are once again pushing Russian Kautskianism on to the path of open opposition to the Soviet Government--i.
Somehow, many of the laborers have come to feel that the churches do not sympathize with the struggles of the laboring classes to better their hard lot but fawn upon the very rich who sometimes grind the toilers to the earth.
The social test of modern Christianity is to do justice to the laboring men without doing injustice to the capitalists.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "laboring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: grinding; hardworking; plodding; plugging; straining; striving; struggling; sweating; working
