labourest

He replied: ‘Why labourest thou not to be delivered from the baseness of service because philosophers have said that it is better to eat barley bread and to sit than to gird oneself with a golden belt and to stand in service?’

The Gulistan of Sa'di 2003

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest, all the days of thy unsteady life, which are given to thee under the sun, all the time of thy vanity: for this is thy portion in life, and in thy labour wherewith thou labourest under the sun.

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous

Nay, under the wintry star thou labourest on thy fleet, and hastenest to launch into the deep amid northern gales; ah, cruel!

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest, all the days of thy unsteady life, which are given to thee under the sun, all the time of thy vanity: for this is thy portion in life, and in thy labour wherewith thou labourest under the sun.

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest, all the days of thy unsteady life, which are given to thee under the sun, all the time of thy vanity: for this is thy portion in life, and in thy labour wherewith thou labourest under the sun.

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2 Anonymous

But when with thy body thou shalt lay aside thy disease, then will be extinguished that fatal thirst, under which thou unhappily labourest.

Spiritual Works of Louis of Blois 1506-1566 1903

And thou, as I see, ordainest to embrace us in thy mortal subtlety when thou labourest to draw us by the ensamples of the philosophers.

The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900

God doth not despise thee because thou art imperfect and infirm, but loveth thee exceedingly because thou desirest and labourest to be more perfect.

A Mirror for Monks. 1506-1566 1872

Not with lost toil thou labourest through the night!

Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold Matthew Arnold 1855

Not with lost toil thou labourest through the night!

Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems Matthew Arnold 1855