Among the Kenistenos the life of the women is an uninterrupted succession of toil and pain, hence "they are sometimes known to destroy their female children, to save them from the miseries which they themselves have suffered.
Among the Iroquois "the warrior despised the toilof husbandry, and held all labour beneath him.
The Malays are described as fond of a life of slothful ease, because "persevering toil is unnecessary, or would bring them no additional enjoyments.
The free spirit, born of toil and privations in the mountain-fastnesses, would not long endure the outrages to which the people were subjected.
The peasant no longer flies from governmental officers to the more merciful companionship of the cobra and tiger, and all who toil find protection as never before.
It wails to the oak o'erhead As the coffin-cold wraps round "The end of life Is toil and strife And the secret of being, I have found Is a seed in the wind and a log on the ground.
His sensitive spirit, which from youth upwards had compassion for the hard toil and misery of the country folk, was blind to the sufferings of the artisans of the city, amid whom he had lived in Paris in his student days.
In Stevens woman does not toil and is seldom a mother.
Millet's sun is too serious merely to play over the fields; it is the austere day-star, ripening the harvest, forcing men to sweat over theirtoil and with no time to waste in jest.
There is nothing in his pictures but wretched broken furniture, stitched rags, and pale faces in which toil and hunger have ploughed their terrible furrows.
Of course, a man who was so sad and dreamy might be expected to lay special stress on the dark side of rustic life, its toil and trouble and exhaustion.
I may be pardoned for remarking that this favor, always so difficult to obtain, was granted me in consideration of the popularity my long and laborious toil had gained me while using that name.
Had it not been for my constant toil and the inconveniences attached to it, I should have been quite happy and satisfied with the daily profit my performances brought me in.
The colonists held many slaves, expecting to accumulate wealth by the unrequited toil of their fellow-men.
They toil on, their leader sharing with them the exhausting labor, till three divisions, on the 23d, are sheltered from the observation of the enemy behind the hills, opposite the mouth of the Chickamauga.
Indeed it occurred to me that many of them would be slow to get well if they must be banished from this lovely spot to a cellar or garret in a crowded street, to toil and sicken again.
Sometimes I rode, but more frequently I was content to toil upward on my own feet, without taxing the jaded horse with my weight to be added to his own.
With incredible toilwe climbed the hill by the side of it.
If society is redeemed, it will be by their toil and sacrifice.
All this is hopeful, but many generations of toil and sacrifice will be required to recover for the church the ground she has lost by the ravages of sectarianism.
She looked back on her years oftoil and contrasted them with the joyous life she had lived on the road.
When they groaned in their misery and toil, they were persuaded to keep on in their misery and toil by pretty tales of a land beyond the skies where they would live famously and fat while the clever ones roasted in everlasting fire.
They toil not, neither spin, yet Solomon in all his glory was not a dog.
When the nature of his power is better understood and frankly recognized, he can spare himself the toil of talking.
The soil thus prepared by the painful and unrequited toil of those who had gone down to obscure graves, sorrowing and hopeless, offered less obstruction to the strong arms and better appliances of the reformers of a later day.
Ignorant, superstitious, and condemned to a life of unrequited toil and unredressed wrongs, the mental and moral condition of the agricultural poor was wretchedly low.
To rear the flower, to assist in unfolding its excellences, and bring forth its fruit in due season, is a work that delightfully recompenses the toil of the cultivator.
My own little shrubberies and flower-beds variegated the view, and recompensed my toil in rearing them, as well by their beauty as their fragrance.
The light-heartedness that sustained such continuous toil could only spring from devout submission and the lofty feelings that it brings.
How dearly a poet pays for the intellectual prowess that method and toil have brought him, at such crises of our youth!
The heat of the sun by day is so great, even in winter, as it now was, that, had there been any one on whom I could have thrown the task, he would have been most welcome to all the sport the toil is supposed to impart.
To one who has observed the hard toil of the poor in old civilized countries, the state in which the inhabitants here live is one of glorious ease.
They have passed their night in the Presidio (the great prison and garrison), and are marshalled for their day's toil in the public streets and on the public works, in the heat of the sun.
Like him, this heart, thro' many a track Of toil and sorrow straying, One hope alone brought fondly back, Its toil and grief repaying.
It must be so to thee, my youth; With this idea toil is lighter; This sweetens all the fruits of truth, And makes the flowers of fancy brighter.
Or is it that there lurks indeed Some truth in Man's prevailing creed And that our Guardians from on high Come in that pause from toil and sin To put the senses' curtain by And on the wakeful soul look in!
First he, in impatience and in toil is The burning AZIM--oh!
Without one victim to our shades, "One Moslem heart, where buried deep "The sabre from its toil may sleep?
Still let England but once try our authors, she'll find How fast they'll leave even these Immortals behind; And how truly the toils of Alcides were light, Compared with his toil who can read all they write.
More toil has gone into the stone fences of New England, free labour of a free people, than ever went into the slave-driven building of the Pyramids of Egypt.
Selem Gherrei into the field, and fall into the sametoil as his friend.
I now know who I am: and rather would I toil as the meanest serf on your domain, than bear arms against that country--my own, my native land.
The men, in relays, had to toil with all their might at scooping out the water; and after that had been reduced below the level of the leakage, it took more than five hours to strengthen and caulk the fresh planking that had repaired the gap.
But first of all, captain," she continued, "tell me whether you and your companions in toil are too worn out with the fatigues that you have already endured to undertake another voyage in my service.
After four or five hours' toil the Ashtoreth was moored in a small creek, and the other vessels were drawn up on what was the nearest approach to dry land that the sodden sands afforded.
But he began earnestly to long for "The Wayside Inn, Where toil should cease and rest begin," and to feel that the approach of old age without the beloved companionship was hard indeed to contemplate.
All the poetry of her nature cried out against the lives of toil and care by which she was surrounded,--lives at that time lighted up by little of art or literature or music, but held to a stern standard of duty and self-abnegation.
During those thirty years of steady toil he went through many sad experiences with Mary; but he must earn their daily bread, and he never left his post.
His work there was full of hardship; but he was young and strong, and had a superabundant energy which no toil daunted.
It looked so much like a blank for Herman Wagner that I quit asking for a time and let the woman toil at her foolish ruinous tasks.
It wouldn't be a mere five thousand dollars," says Homer; "it would be the savings of a lifetime of honest toil and watching the pennies.
His form was Herculean, his bones strong and hard as iron, and his sinews stood out in undeniable evidence of a life hitherto spent in severe toil and exertion, to bear which he appeared to an amazing degree capable.
