Lexicographical Neighbors of Toilfully
Literary usage of Toilfully
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cantonese Love-songs by Cecil Clementi (1904)
"Flowers fall easily: but the moon toilfully waxes round. ... Though the moon wax
round so toilfully, yet it is full, meseems, only for a day. ..."
2. The Works of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1851)
"Proceeding thus slowly and toilfully, they at length arrived on the northern
sea-coast, at the territories of their ally, ..."
3. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and by Washington Irving (1849)
"Proceeding thus slowly and toilfully, they at length arrived on the northern
sea-coast, at the territories of their ally, ..."
4. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1917)
"... the agencies for the amelioration of the sufferings and losses of war so slowly
and toilfully built up during the emergence of mankind from .barbarism. ..."
5. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... wait for the moment when it may show to a sister who is more tenderly cared
for, or who chances to be nearer, the treasures it has so toilfully amassed. ..."
6. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1854)
"She hastened to a brook that flowed by nt no great distance, drew water in the
hollow of her hand (for cup she had none), nml thus toilfully and by slow ..."
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