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Example sentences for "laboured"

Lexicographically close words:
laboro; labors; laborum; labour; laboure; labourer; labourers; laboureth; labouring; labours
  1. Now, I wonder if he's clever enough to find out the truth?

  2. Had he not fed, and clothed, and lodged her like the most penitent of prodigals, although she had no claim upon him until he chose to give it to her?

  3. Blanche Boveal retired early, leaving the room in a series of laboured leaps that she hoped might be recognised as a tolerable imitation of Pavlova.

  4. But he at least laboured all that he could.

  5. She laboured at her new social duties and “pleasures” in exactly the same spirit that she had formerly laboured at the wash tub.

  6. I fancy I almost hear sometimes the laboured breathing, the sudden stop--the "thanks be to God, he has entered into his rest.

  7. I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse, my eyes have failed, whilst I hope in my God.

  8. I have laboured in my groanings, every night I will wash my bed: I will water my couch with my tears.

  9. As Pomperant and Hugues were in the church when the work of demolition commenced, they were compelled to join in it, and they both laboured as industriously as the rest, till relieved by a fresh party.

  10. For three days and three nights they laboured incessantly.

  11. The pioneers laboured during the night, and were protected by gabions and mantelets, but they suffered severely from the fire of the besieged.

  12. How He laboured in word and deed of virtue!

  13. Yet have I laboured to become pure in thy sight, oh, my God!

  14. Not I, but the grace of God which was with me, and so I laboured more abundantly than they all.

  15. And if my powers had equalled my good will, I would have soon become a passing good painter, so much I studied and laboured at the things of art; but I found the difficulties much greater than I had judged at the beginning.

  16. Christianity may have been brought to these Asiatic provinces by St. Paul, the allusions which St. Peter makes to the trials of the converts are such as seem impossible had he not himself laboured among them.

  17. Those who laboured with him were all of the same mind; all gave the same note of warning to their converts.

  18. But when all is done, when men have not been sitting with folded hands waiting and dreaming that peace would come without pursuit, but have laboured for it, they do not always attain to it.

  19. Then some have laboured to reconcile to their understandings the two truths of God's sovereignty and the freedom of the human will, not content to believe that in God's economy there may be things beyond their measure.

  20. And another who had laboured to be faithful He welcomed to His presence: "Enter into the joy of thy Lord.

  21. He laboured for ten years to enable me to read a language essentially the same with that I used daily to my nurse and mother.

  22. It seems the most laboured performance of the two, but yet we think its merit is not equal to that of the second.

  23. We regard the waste of his fine talents, and the laboured suppression and apparent extinction of his better feelings, with the deepest commiseration and sorrow.

  24. But of course their companion laboured under the double disadvantage of being a foreigner himself, a Spaniard from Catalonia, and of knowing nothing about the district.

  25. My father seldom reproved me, never in anger, but Saunders, with the care of my young soul heavy on his Calvinistic conscience, laboured faithfully with me in season and out of season.

  26. We laboured hard till sun-set, and then repaired on board, satisfied with the quantity we had collected, and which I judged sufficient to last till our arrival in New Zealand.

  27. They are often laboured and obscure, diffuse and verbose.

  28. On this wild moor he had lived and laboured from childhood; and he began to talk proudly of its great length and breadth, and of the wonderful sights that were to be seen on different parts of it, the moment we addressed him.

  29. Wherefore," he says, "I laboured so to speak the word, as that the sin and person guilty might be particularized by it.

  30. She had laboured at the fantastic, monstrous fabrication, as if in that way only she could save herself.

  31. Thus she had laboured at her own destruction.

  32. In the following century Benjamin Franklin devised a scheme of union and laboured to commend it to the makers of Pan-Angle history.

  33. From their land and sea-coast holdings, the Pan-Angles have taken the yield of fish and grain and meat; and those who laboured in getting food produced enough for themselves and for their fellows who were working in other ways.

  34. The statesmen who in our many legislative halls have laboured to fit forms of government to the needs of the governed have tested for us the material for our building and have discarded what was ill-suited to our purposes.

  35. One sees many laboured fields, but little labour.

  36. The country has never been so laboured before.

  37. All the world has laboured under the idea that the purpose was piles of gold.

  38. I never laboured hard to unravel them; but time took up the work, and I was patient.


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