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With such thoughts to help me onward in my own rough life and toil,
City and Village 2010
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For our fellows striving onward, though they wear the stain of toil,
City and Village 2010
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After having in vain attempted to dislodge a plank, no resource remained but the centre-bit and keyhole saw, with which, after about an hour more of arduous toil,
Ralph Rashleigh 2004
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To the festival of nations -- to the tournament of toil,
The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs
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And they crooned this song as they plied their toil,
Pan and Æolus: Poems Charles Hamilton Musgrove
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'Twould wear me out -- this round of ceaseless toil,
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By-and-by you will read more about how the workers, by their busy toil,
Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation Caroline Pridham
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Thinking to win wealth's treasures by a few years 'eager toil,
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For the guerdon ye sought with your bloodshed and toil,
Mosaics of Grecian History Marcius Willson
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Though we have watched a weary watch, and toiled a weary toil,
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932
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