toil

• Thus through better returns for their toil, the farmers of Uttarakhand now earn well. —  dailyindia.com News Feed
• And that is why the dwelling of men annoys me so; they cannot even raise their heads without disturbing the air In my dream, I asked him, "How did you live with your elephant mother in the jungle Our life was a playing and a toil," he answered, "but the toil was a playing, and the playing was a toil. —  Kari the Elephant
• Only the sound of their toil is allowed to remind the other classes of their happier lot. —  Gossamer 1915
• Men toil, and the fruits of their toil are taken from them to be squandered on vast engines whose sole use is to destroy utterly in one awful moment what we have spent the painful effort of ages in building up He swept his hand out towards the great ship under whose shadow we were passing Was there ever plainer proof," he said, "that men are mad Miss Gibson sat beside me. —  Gossamer 1915
• The white men must toil, toil, toil--very slow over the ice for three days, then they will come to smooth ice, where the dogs may run for three days. —  The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole

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