The shooting spindles, the smooth-humming wheels, The rocking webs, seemed toiling to some end Beneficent and human known to them, And duly brought to pass in power and love.
Separated from an adored husband, deprived of wonted comforts and luxuries, and toiling in humble and unwonted labors, she yet recalls this as one of the happiest periods of her life.
The old New-England motto, Get your work done up in the forenoon, applied to an amount of work which would keep a common Irish servant toiling from daylight to sunset.
Railroads, enabling men toiling in cities to rear families in the country, are on this account a special blessing.
Driving on himself in a light wagon, he reached the advanced line, as they were toiling ahead through their first snowstorm.
I had only made about twenty miles, toiling from dawn to dark through blinding drift and intense cold.
It is a pleasure to sit behind such a train of dogs; it is a pain to watch the other poor brutes toiling at their traces.
Only once before had I experienced a similar sensation of choking, and that was in toiling through a Burmese swamp, snipe-shooting under a midday sun.
Unspeakably touching is it, however, when I find both dignities united; and he that must toil outwardly for the lowest of man's wants, is also toiling inwardly for the highest.
The life of the toiling North, of the cotton spinners and weavers was as yet unknown to most people.
A second man I honour, and still more highly: Him who is seen toiling for the spiritually indispensable; not daily bread, but the Bread of Life.
His ambition was to strike a blow for the poor, "to leave one's hand upon the time, lastingly upon the time, with one tender touch for the mass of toiling people.
Democracy, the people, or the toiling class, was engaged in a fierce battle with those forces which it held to be its natural enemies.
And in that piety I clothe ungainly forms inherited From toiling generations, daily bent At desk, or plough, or loom, or in the mine, In pioneering labors for the world.
The Midland home, the plain village life, the humble, toiling country folk, shaped for her the scenes and characters about which she was to write.
The noise and din of the mighty city is hushed as the night advances and the toiling millions of the day sink to repose; but their rest is the signal for the activity of others.
Night came on while the lonely white man was still toiling bewildered through the dense woods.
The fortification was finished in a day and a night, all hands, men and women, toiling at it, Bent amongst them.
These, then, are the true inhabitants, the true soul of the desert; the ants toiling in the sand, the quarrymen working in the sandstone.
Sometimes the laborious woodpecker, laboriously toiling at its task of excavating the oak, cheers itself with its singular cry.
It softened to a great depth, and made the work of toiling through it an enormous labor.
He knew, too, that the pair working so desperately to get the barrel away from the wreckage were thus toiling in haste to get their loot aboard the sharpie.
Master and men went toiling from dawn to dusk under a spell, busy, tireless as gnomes, faithful as knights to their trust.
By dint of toiling very hard all day, he managed to earn enough to keep the minnow and himself, but it meant that the two had very little time together, and that was a shame.
He is like them now, in neither toiling nor spinning, and yet how ashamed he must make them of their inferior rainment.
She tried to mount, but her watery garments were too much for her agility, and with the wet skirts fettering her limbs she began toiling painfully over the spongy, plowed ground, in search of a stump or a rock.
It reached the ears of a foot passenger, toiling up the mill road toward Fairacres and quickened his pace.
The one backward glance she cast showed the numerous children of the house of Jones toiling industriously skyward, in their mother's footsteps.
Whilst we were toiling along, sometimes temporarily despairing, and generally up to our waists in snow, he was enjoying the comforts of the hotel, or strolling about in languid search of fabulous butterflies.
There cometh Eli toiling up the path with no more speed than if he were not already two hours late.
The wind brought the whistle of the railway locomotives and the clanking of a steam-dredger in the river, like a giant toiling in massive chains.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "toiling" 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
