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Example sentences for "labors"

Lexicographically close words:
laboriously; laboriousness; laboris; laborites; laboro; laborum; labour; laboure; laboured; labourer
  1. In reading over the material concerning woman's work in the War, I felt how little our labors are appreciated.

  2. Miss Anthony's love-life, like her religion, has manifested itself in steadfast, earnest labors for men in general.

  3. However, our labors in this direction are having an effect.

  4. Gradually we extended our labors and attacked our opponents in the New York Tribune, whose columns were open to us in the early days, Mr. Greeley being, at that time, one of our most faithful champions.

  5. All during the autumn Miss Anthony and I looked forward to the spring, when we hoped to have completed the third and last volume of our History, and thus end the labors of ten years.

  6. The boat from which he had hoped so much had proved false to those hopes, and all the labors of the previous day had proved useless.

  7. His excessive labors had fatigued him less than the great excitement which he had undergone, and now he felt disinclined to exert himself.

  8. Nothing occurred during the day to disturb the quiet of the island, and Tom went to bed early that night, so as to have a long sleep, and fortify himself for the labors of the morrow.

  9. We mar a perfect harmony by ill-tempered silence, and perhaps ruin the labors of our associates by a continuous sounding of our own ridiculous reed.

  10. In the arduous labors of housing three where one had before been quartered he showed an ability which attracted the attention of a dealer in real estate who soon took him into his office.

  11. The practices of law and medicine are famous for the need of age, which they harness anew with the labors and exertions ordinarily demanded of youth.

  12. Of what avail will be the best provision for the conveniences of a family, and the labors of the farm, if the farm be badly cultivated, and a worthless or inferior stock be kept upon it?

  13. Nor is it intended, in the production of this work, to interfere with the labors of the professional builder.

  14. Flowers being cultivated, not for profit, but for show and amusement, need not intrude upon the time which is required to the more important labors of the farm.

  15. And it may perhaps be added that none professing to be such, are competent, unless well instructed, and whose labors have met the approbation of those competent to judge.

  16. As an accessory to their labors in such advancement, the present work is intended.

  17. The fire took chiefly that which could be replaced; but the flood washed out claims, ruined aqueducts, and destroyed lives of men and brutes, carrying away with it the labors and hopes of years.

  18. If his labors were uncertain and sporadic, and his address that of a nomad, it all sufficed, at least for himself.

  19. Thus this poor people populate this howling desert, marching manfully on, the Lord assisting, through the greatest difficulties and sorest labors that ever any with such weak means have done.

  20. It is stated that if the Constitution had been subjected to a popular vote as soon as the labors of the Convention terminated, it would probably have been rejected in almost every state in the Union.

  21. He has an almost infallible sense of where to strike the next important blow, and even during the ponderous labors of the day he prudently and confidently lays out the task of to-morrow.

  22. Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and prosperity will one day cause great changes in the world.

  23. A great portion of the work under consideration is devoted to the lives and labors of these benefactors of their people.

  24. It was the time when there comes a brief pause in the toil of the fields before the beginning of the labors of harvest--every year recurring, every year straining every nerve of the peasants.

  25. I've promised to deliver an address on his labors in zoology.

  26. After his levee, that is to say, giving directions about the labors of the next day, and seeing all the peasants who had business with him, Levin went back to his study and sat down to work.

  27. Then Katavasov in his loud, ringing voice read his address on the scientific labors of the man whose jubilee was being kept.

  28. An interesting and valuable book could be written concerning the earth as influenced and benefited by the labors of the beaver.

  29. By an agreement between Peter and Paul, made early and observed strictly, the labors of the former were limited to the circumcised, and he found them in large numbers in cities watered by the Euphrates.

  30. Eusebius felt conscious that it was not safe to rest his case here, and we find him reaching out in every direction for further proof, satisfied with anything that will give color to the fact he labors to establish.

  31. An act, especially one of importance connected with his labors as an Apostle, attributed to him by others, and not spoken of at all by himself, should be excluded from the pages of authentic history.

  32. His labors were confined to his own country, mostly in the neighborhood of the sea of Tiberias.

  33. Mark and Luke substantially agree with Matthew; so, according to all three, Christ began his labors at Capernaum.

  34. The geodetical survey of the northern wilderness of New York state, known as the Adirondack country, under the efficient and energetic labors of Mr. Verplanck Colvin, will cover an area of nearly five thousand square miles.

  35. All botanists are familiar with the results of his patient labors and his pioneer travels in those early days, through the wilderness of what now constitutes the southeastern states.

  36. The revision of these works for the press, with the correction of the proofs and his duties to the Archduke, are all the professional labors of Beethoven in these months of which we find any trace.

  37. Maelzel, since it was he who first conceived the idea of this academy and there fell to him afterward the management, care and arrangement--the most arduous labors of all.

  38. The fear that he could not complete the work within the prescribed time and that his labors would be disturbed, compelled Collin to decline the commission with thanks.

  39. Kanne ranked with the best musical journalists of the day, and, to use the words of Hanslick, his labors and influence as a critic were considerable, especially because of his enthusiasm for Beethoven, is certain.

  40. Jahn has to say, and the results of Erich Prieger's labors in connection with the reprint of the original form of the opera.

  41. Beethoven began his labors for Thomson with the last named.

  42. The Red Cross Conference ended its labors on the 6th day of July, and the revised and amended convention, which was signed by the American delegates, will be promptly laid before the Senate.

  43. I have also received counsel and encouragement in all my labors from my esteemed colleague, Prof.

  44. The personal beauty, for which Ernest had always been remarkable, grew almost superhuman during his illness, and Richard could not resist stealing a little time from his busy labors to paint his brother's portrait.

  45. It was a scene to gratify the thought of conquest and reward the labors of ambition.

  46. The tasks for which no such consideration can be pleaded, such as the dull, heavy labors of the hod, the writer humanely hopes some method may yet be found to relieve.

  47. The creek had soon discharged its excess waters, and our labors went forward without hitch, till the last of the gold-dust had been sent out through that watery portal.

  48. Although the mine is his, he will not hear of any arrangement other than share and share alike--after the sailors have been paid a substantial bonus, and Hawkins and the boy have received a proper payment for their labors and sufferings.

  49. It attributes to its own labors what is the fruit of the lapse of ages, of the instinctive law of nations, and sometimes of the inspirations of genius; now neither this instinct of nations nor genius at all resembles science.

  50. We read in Palladius, that the monks of Egypt did not content themselves with working with rude and simple objects, but that they devoted themselves to labors of all kinds.

  51. This Council labors to stop the evil by prescribing a prudent moderation; but without withdrawing the protection already granted.

  52. To succeed in explaining certain passages of the Bible, of the Fathers, of the codes, and of the works of philosophers, great preparatory labors were necessary, as the experience of subsequent ages has proved.


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