toilsom

If you will marry, you must then conclude never to be any thing for your self again; but to subject your self to the toilsom will and desires of a Wife, most difficult to be born with; to pass by all her deficiences; to assist her infirmities; to satisfie her insatiable desires; to approve of all her pleasures, & whatsoever she also will you must condescend to.

The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

The march from Tarboro was painful and toilsom in the extreme.

Letter from John Henderson to his father, Archibald Henderson, from Fort Branch, [February 1865] 1865

I flatter myself the time is not far distant when the toilsom business of war, in which your Honors have had so large a share, will terminate in the independence, peace, and happiness of our country.

Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

I flatter myself the time is not far distant when the toilsom business of war, in which your Honors have had so large a share, will terminate in the independence, peace, and happiness of our country.

Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

179: What can be toilsom in these pleasant Walkes?

Paradise Lost (1667) 1667

439: Which were it toilsom, yet with thee were sweet.

Paradise Lost (1667) 1667