toils

We rested from our mountain toils - toils in a double sense - in a beautiful valley twelve miles long, and from four to five broad, intersected by several willow and aspen bordered streams, tributary to Salmon River, which flows through the valley in

Life in the Rocky Mountains 1844

The insatiability of the desire prevents that which is the only end proposed in toils, namely, self-gratification; "the man" thus gets no "good" out of his wealth (Ec

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

Young clergymen have this way of falling, at sight, into the toils, which is vastly refreshing to middle-aged observers.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various

-- Ask her what Heracles would have been, what your own Theseus would have been, if they had listened to the voice of pleasure, and shrunk back from toil: their toils were the only check upon wickedness, which else must have overrun the whole

Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 of Samosata Lucian 1895

Lover of the soil and desirous, in harmony with Augustus, to attract the Italians back to a taste for agriculture, he wrote the _Georgics_: that is, the toils of the field, describing these labours with singular exactitude and precision; then, to give the reader variety, he introduced from time to time an episode which is a fragment of history or of mythological legend.

Initiation into Literature ��mile Faguet 1881

Mediterranean from the hills of Asia, and hailed with rapture the boundary of their toils.

Chapter 24 2010

I was like a wild beast that had broken the toils; destroying the objects that obstructed me, and ranging through the wood with a stag-like swiftness.

Chapter 16 2010

While Willis toils, their sneakup and their slave:

The Age Reviewed 2010

And sometimes the young men came back with strange tales of dangers and toils in the lands beyond the Pellys, and sometimes they did not come back.

THE LEAGUE OF THE OLD MEN 2010

You are in the toils of an idea, the idea of selection, as I well know, and you exploit it like a drudge.

The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010