Where one escapes thetoils of vice and sin, thousands perish as slaves to the inexorable Vice Trust.
The gambling vice grasps its victims in a clutch as powerful as the grip of the drug habit or as unyielding as the toils of immorality.
What gentle youth I would allure, Whom in my artful toils secure?
The wary worldling spread his toils Whilst I was sleeping; The wakeful miser locked his spoils, Keen vigils keeping: I loosed the latches of my soul To pleading Pleasure, Who stayed one little hour, and stole My heavenly treasure.
Hear also me, Jove's offspring by the toils Of war invincible!
To Ilium should the toils of battle prove, Wert thou once slain, the fiercest of her foes.
Brave though he be, and with the toils of war Insatiable, he shall be willing yet, Seated on his bent knees, to breathe a while, 135 Should he escape the arduous brunt severe.
Thus Meleager, gratifying first His own resentment from a fatal day 745 Saved the Ætolians, who the promised gift Refused him, and histoils found no reward.
For toils and agonies to Greeks And Trojans both, in many a bloody field To be endured, the Thunderer yet ordain'd.
So had the Trojans respite from their toils 465 Enjoy'd, who, now, shudder at sight of thee Like she-goats when the lion is at hand.
Just now we are financially diseased, and men are thinking more of the bread and butter and debts of to-morrow than of Mr. Buchanan in the toils of his Southern Cabinet.
These intelligent children were in thetoils of a question which was disturbing the consciences and the interests of a continent.
The clouds that hung over his mind might open to him parting glimpses of the toils and triumphs of his early career; but they descended in impenetrable darkness on all the after-days of his dreary life.
None for himself, strained in mind and muscle by cares and toils that would have overcome any other man; but a blessed thought for the poor wounded ones whom he had led to victory over the couch of pain and death!
Beauregard, with wonderful skill and prudence, had fled from the toils of the overwhelming force on his front, leaving his wooden guns on the ramparts where they had confounded General Halleck.
New homes on old are set, as lives on lives; Invention with invention overlaid: But still or tool or toy or book or blade Shaped for the hand, that holds and toils and strives.
I was in the toilsof suspense, in a fever of eagerness and anxiety.
The soldiers, as if that moment arrived before the city, forgetting all the toils they had undergone and the disappointments they had suffered, began to raise a new mole, at which they worked incessantly.
The toils which I had endured in reaching this height appeared, to my panic-struck fancy, less easy to be borne again than death.
And I am recompensed, and deem the toils Of poetry not lost, if verse of mine May stand between an animal and woe, And teach one tyrant pity for his drudge.
For oft as from his toils abroad he ceased, Home-bound by weather, or some stated feast, His debt of culture here he duly paid, And only left the plough to wield the spade.
The soul, reposing on assured relief, Feels herself happy amidst all her grief, Forgets her labour as she toils along, Weeps tears of joy, and bursts into a song.
The time draws near, happily, when my toils may be at an end; and then, if faith can be placed in the word of man, I shall reap the rich reward of all.
The last to see me off, and the first to welcome my return to Portugal, no longer a wanderer and an outcast, but at length with my toils at an end, and my property secured.
That Saguntum might be taken, what dangers, what toils were for eight months undergone!
Amid such changes and toils as these, Father Hennepin and his companions, in their frail birch canoe, paddled along against the strong current of the Mississippi.
Father Marquette, who was never known to utter a murmuring word, and who was serene and cheerful amidst the sorest trials, was so utterly exhausted by the toils of the expedition that he could proceed no farther than Green Bay.
For they were hardened partly by the toils of war, partly by the habit of seafaring.
His calamity was due to his sailors being newly married, and preferring nuptial joys at home to the toils of foreign warfare.
His emancipation, once fairly purchased, confers on him potentially the freedom of the empire of thought; and, as evermore, the freeman toils harder than the slave.
The Holy Spirit inflamed Saint Peter and twelve others with him, and they all contended here below, and their toils and hardships were many, but last of all they gained the victory.
The passing vehicles will be more those of pleasure and not so much those of business; the passing feet will be oftener those going to luncheon and afternoon tea, and not so solely those hurrying to or lagging from the toils of the day.
And when those toils rewarding, Broad lands at length they'll claim, They'll call the new possession, By some familiar name.
I used to go down to my farm every morning, and return in the evening to a cheerful fire-side and agreeable society, which rewarded me for the toils of the day.
