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  • Under the word Laborious, we have only a dozen lines of angry reproach against the despotism that makes men idle by making property uncertain.

    Diderot and the Encyclopaedists Morley, John, 1838-1923 1905

  • Laborious births lie ahead; that was the case too with South Africa, Chile, Romania and so on.

    The Arab Spring Is Still Alive Matthew Kaminski 2011

  • Laborious - maybe a 14 year old kid in a basement on meth :

    Steve Had a Little List EliRabett 2010

  • Laborious, wasteful, hours-long research into making this one line in a recipe perfect.

    The Obnoxious Chef kittenpie 2008

  • Laborious, wasteful, hours-long research into making this one line in a recipe perfect.

    Archive 2008-02-01 kittenpie 2008

  • Laborious dicing is reduced to a few blasts of the pulse control.

    Chat Leftovers: A vegetarian dinner? Cool. 2010

  • The Laborious Day Weekend is now behind us, and so too are the languid days of summer.

    The Indignity of Summer: It's Always Dorkiest Before the Fall BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • July 7, 2007 -- SPECIAL EDITION -- Laborious task of culling 13 years of "johns '" phone records continues

    Names of Agencies and Businesses That Hired DC Madam Emerging 2007

  • "Laborious would be the best adjective to describe tonight's game," Bell said.

    USATODAY.com 2003

  • Writes Kant: “Laborious learning, even if a woman should greatly succeed in it, destroys the merits that are proper to her sex, and because of their rarity they can make of her an object of cold admiration; but at the same time they will weaken the charms with which she exercises her great power over the other sex.”

    Scheherazade Goes West Fatema Mernissi 2001

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