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  • Labouring poets, who insist that nothing good was ever produced without labouring at it, writing and rewriting, and writing over and over again.

    Letter 70 2009

  • Addressed, by an Old Man to the Labouring Poor of Suffolk and

    Letter 423 2009

  • You are Labouring under the misprehension tat Liberty is a nartural state.

    The Soixante-neuf of Liberty Newmania 2007

  • You are Labouring under the misprehension tat Liberty is a nartural state.

    The Soixante-neuf of Liberty Newmania 2007

  • Labouring under all that fear meant I did a lot, a whole lot, of writing and rewriting of the early parts of the story.

    Iiiiinching along ... karenmiller 2007

  • Labouring to crank up the rusty machinery, he is like the distant light at the end of the tunnel.

    Nature Reserves are not for Tourism 2009

  • Labouring under the yoke of Canadian communism, complete with our version of Pravda, Harper seeks the truth by listening to Radio Free Canada.

    Here, let me summarize that for you. CC 2009

  • Condition of our Labouring Classes, with immense advantage.

    American Notes for General Circulation 2007

  • [3475] Labouring men that sing to their work, can tell as much, and so can soldiers when they go to fight, whom terror of death cannot so much affright, as the sound of trumpet, drum, fife, and such like music animates; metus enim mortis, as [3476] Censorinus informeth us, musica depellitur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Labouring in this sea, as all barks labour in cross seas, he tossed about and came to no haven.

    Little Dorrit 2007

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