labourings

The idle business of show, plays on the stage, flocks of sheep, herds, exercises with spears, a bone cast to little dogs, a bit of bread into fish-ponds, labourings of ants and burden-carrying, runnings about of frightened little mice, puppets pulled by stringsall alike.

The Meditations 2004

It was when the leaders began delivering their speeches later that the pace began to mirror the labourings of the 21-party negotiating council at Kempton Park.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

No man can live by faith on Christ, no man can depend on his sovereign power, who is not persuaded that all the frames of his heart, all the secret groans and sighs of his spirit, all the inward labourings of his soul against sin, and after conformity to himself, are continually under his eye and cognizance.

Christologia 1616-1683 1965

That his heart in them is not poured out, nor delivered in any proportion to the holy desires and labourings that were conceived therein; though he may in Christ have great refreshment by them.

Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

The idle business of show, plays on the stage, flocks of sheep, herds, exercises with spears, a bone to cast to little dogs, a bit of bread into fish-ponds, labourings of ants and burden-carrying, runnings about of frightened little mice, puppets pulled by strings— [all alike].

VII 1909

They look back upon earth, the runnings and labourings of the unforgotten life here; and are glad to bear in their hearts the indubitable token that they have 'not run in vain neither laboured in vain.'

Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. Alexander Maclaren 1868

She could only design the good of her children; and her indefatigable labourings to promote this good were so evident to all, that the least candid of her acquaintance could not but allow that the Misses Hastings were contracting a debt of obligation to their mother, that the most implicit obedience in their disposal in life, and their most devoted affection through the course of it, would but inadequately discharge.

Isabella. A Novel 1823

It was hard to say so when you considered the gulf that so clearly existed between Hamilton's flawlessly sparking McClaren and the labourings of Felipe Massa's Ferrari.

Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed 2008

And in this work of the Spirit lies the fountain of that inexpressible fervency and delight, of those enlarged labourings of mind and desires, which are in the prayers of believers, especially when they are under the power of more than ordinary influences from him: for these things proceed from the work of the Spirit on their wills and affections, stirring them up and carrying them forth unto God, in and by the matter of their prayers, in such a manner as no vehement working of natural affections can reach unto; and therefore is the Spirit said to "make intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered," Rom. viii.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

All these labourings in his absence sufficiently discover the soul’s delight in the presence of Christ.

Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965