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At any rate, Ikey toiled and snipped and basted and pressed and patched and sponged all day in the steamy fetor of a tailor-shop.

As he lay thinking, he saw a spider over his head, trying to spin a web. He watched her as she toiled slowly and with great care.

The last ten centuries have toiled at it without being able to bring it to a termination.

Even the ducks and hens toiled to and fro all day in the sun, carrying tiny wisps of hay in their beaks.

They toiled away for a year, bootstrapped the product to life, found a first customer, and made that customer deliriously happy.

"I've neither taken any nor found any, " she said, as I toiled to them, expanding her hands in corroboration of the statement.

Troy toiled up the road with a languor and depression greater than any he had experienced for many a day and year before.

In the meantime, he toiled all day over his plot of indigo, and at night he returned home to water his garden, and to read his books.

All day he toiled on untiringly , and by the evening he had succeeded in extracting ten handfuls of plaster and fragments of stone.

Workers have toiled under hot and harsh conditions to stabilize the plant since the cooling systems were destroyed by the natural disasters.

The president paid tribute to all who have toiled to rebuild the city, and pledged sustained federal support until the work is done.

In America, three-quarters of students on a four-year university course will have toiled as an intern at least once before graduation.

Throughout this past summer, in the long-suffering hills of western Rwanda, legions of farmers toiled at their sloped plots.

Beyond the tarmac, women toiled in fields while their husbands sheltered from the heat in huts and half-built houses.

For five-and-a-half years the Swede has toiled manfully in what many have described as the 'impossible job'.

The great wall has condensed thousands upon thousands of working people toiled, is the crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese nation.

Over forty thousand Brazilian and Paraguayan workers toiled around the clock to create this immense dam.

They toiled all day digging the trench.

For six months I toiled in the mines and in the counting-rooms, for I wished to know every minute detail of the business.

I toiled for them all the year round, but I could scarcely keep body and soul together.

The determined doctors and nurses at some of the world's best hospitals, who have toiled day and night to save so many lives.

And in the Inca heartland, a small army of men and women toiled to construct a royal estate for Huayna Capac and his family.

The names of those who toiled hard to bring us spiritual wealth and happiness will always glitter on the monument of man's history.

Your husband has toiled hard to keep you in designer frocks and needs your support; you are a sociopath for not providing it.

She toiled over the buckets which stood on the hot fire and in which a thick tough mass was bubbling.

Roma are playing really well, they have quality and strength even if for an hour they toiled against Chievo.

They toiled their way to the farther end of the tunnel, then made their spliced kite-strings fast and moved on.

For us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West; endured the lash of the whip and ploughed the hard earth.

Hot and perspiring , he toiled up the dusty ascent .

They dug trenches, toiled in docks and railway yards or worked in arms factories for the allies.

The top commanders who toiled and slaved for months planning the second front were under a man-killing strain of work and responsibility.

Workers received low wages and toiled long hours under dangerous conditions.

For centuries the peasants toiled on the soil and were relentlessly exploited.

men and women like my grandparents who toiled on bomber assembly lines and marched across Europe to free the world from tyranny's grasp.

Congress toiled with industry and enviros to produce compromise legislation that was, well, compromised.

For us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West, endured the lash of whip and plowed the hard earth.

For us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the west, endure the lash of whip and plowed the hard earth.

He finds it remarkable that a song he wrote so quickly was the one that has become so popular, when other pieces he toiled at are not.

For many years, HTC toiled in anonymity in the smartphone market, but lately has gained a higher profile with Android phones.

I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me.

The slaves toiled up the hill pulling the heavy blocks.

When Gordon Brown was shadow chancellor in the 1990s, he toiled to win Labour a reputation for competence.

These people toiled day and night and struggled for survival.

For five days he toiled on at "Overdue, " going nowhere, seeing nobody, and eating meagrely.

The factories hummed and the whole British nation toiled night and day .

Others toiled and you have come in for the harvest of their toil.

The bus toiled up the steep hill.

The workers toiled all through the night.

For over a quarter-century workers in China have toiled for extremely low pay and poor work conditions.

Mr Smith toiled for this children's behoof.

And so he toiled day and night making clothing, in the hope of earning enough money to buy lovely gifts for her.

The farmer toiled in the field from dawn till dusk.

They toiled on a small patch of land.

The ground was muddy and uneven, but we toiled on.

He loved the splendor of grand buildings, regardless of how many slaves toiled miserably to make them.

He toiled in the fields for many years without getting much.

He toiled on till he was past eighty.

H OW THEY TOILED AND SWEATED to get the hay in!

Zheng toiled for two hours, 43 minutes to dispatch the 10th-seeded Sharapova - the second set alone taking 68 minutes.

he gave them the lands of the nations, and they fell heir to what others had toiled for-

However, he toiled on all the night without being discouraged;

They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn

The peasant toiled in the field from Dawn till dusk