They ought to remember, that even Rubens founded this excellence upon years of laborious and careful study.
What he would condemn is that substitute for deep and proper study, which is to enable the painter to conceive and execute every subject as a whole, and a finish which Cowley calls "laborious effects of idleness.
And I have had for some time a very difficult and laborious respiration; but I am better by purges, abstinence, and other methods.
Step by step he got into a way of steady work, and lived henceforth a laborious and honest life.
I recall a conversation just after the close of a protracted and laborious term of the Augusta Circuit Court, in which the late Judge Lucas P.
Even dancing is nothing but an exceedingly laborious and anxious wielding of yards of silk trailing out behind!
He married, became the father of a large family, and performed for many years the laborious duties appertaining to an officer's servant at a frontier post.
He obtained water from the most convenient source, and disposed of his sewage in the least laborious way.
The methods employed by the ancients to construct cisterns must have been laborious and unsatisfactory.
King's sons not being much used to laborious work, Miranda soon after found her lover almost dying with fatigue.
I have lived the life of a cunning and laborious animal.
Over these accumulating volumes she spent many a laborious hour.
For what or for whom, let me ask you, do I undergo all this laborious toil?
On the estate were employed about fifty negroes, and half that number of free Indians; the latter ate at their master’s expense, and earned about sixpence a day; but they appeared far less laborious and handy than the negroes.
A strong current setting in-shore detained us until midnight; we then took advantage of a calm which succeeded, and rowed away for a headland to the eastward, near which we arrived about sunrise, after a most laborious passage.
He understood now that laborious utterance of his friend upon the steamer, and why his difficulty with words was more than he could overcome.
All Leipsic mourned him when he died, for he was the pattern of the ideal German scholar, as daringly original in his thought as he was homely in his life, a modest, genial, laborious slave to truth and learning.
With slow, laboriousdistinctness it broke off into fragments that were words, with great difficulty uttered, but with a final authority that rendered them command.
His mental development was by no means headlong, but he was a laborious reader and an eager disputant, endowed with all the virtues save modesty.
Her intellect, which no regular discipline had formed, impressed the laborious and studious Godwin by its quickness and its flashes of sudden insight--its "intuitive perception of intellectual beauty.
And besides, one may be laborious as a writer, without copying twelve times over.
I consider myself a very patient, laborious writer--though dear Mr. Kenyon laughs me to scorn when I say so.
To all laborious exercises they are averse; they sleep through the day, and never stir abroad till night.
If the negroes are deficient in genius, they are by no means so in their feelings; they are cheerful or melancholy, laborious or inactive, friendly or hostile, according to the manner in which they are treated.
They are laboriousskilful artificers, and, in a word, their dispositions, manners, and customs are the same as the Chinese.
The negroes of Guinea are well qualified for the office of tillage, and other laborious employments; those of Senegal are less vigorous, yet are good domestic servants, and very ingenious.
There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life.
Did early man undertake the laborious task of hewing down tree after tree to shape new models, until in the end he found on launching the correctly shaped vessel that its balance was perfect?
A people who lived by hunting and fishing were not likely to be greatly interested in the laborious process of gold-washing.
In all probability the laborious work of digging mines was not commenced before the available surface supplies became scanty.
Not only did he hollow out a tree trunk by the laborious process of burning and by chipping with a flint adze, he dressed the trunk so that his boat could be balanced on the water.
A correct estimate of its character and worth will be found in the following summary: "The greater part of the valuable and laborious work of Polybius has perished.
What Æschylus and the other dramatists painted in brief and striking pictures on the stage, Herodotus described with laborious but never tedious minuteness.
Even when the auspicious day has been decided after long and laborious calculations, and earnest consultations of old calendars, there yet remains the necessity of choosing a particularly lucky moment on the particularly lucky day.
The building of these holy sand-hills is a substitute, amongst the poorer classes, for the more laborious and expensive way of making merit, involved in the erection of a prachadee.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "laborious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
