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How to use labours in a sentence

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Augmented and induced labours were those where drugs were used to augment or induce labour.
Leonardo was extremely fastidious, but Nicholl reminds us that his exquisite works were the product of titanic labours.
The garments on display in the North American clothing case were labours of love and skill.
This labours the point, and I apologise for doing so, but none offer an alternative to our current position.
Cleaning out the Augean stables was one of the labours of Hercules and the incoming Greek government faces similar challenges.
It's that scene in The Shining when Shelley Duvall stumbles across Jack Nicholson's literary labours, just before he turns into the mad axeman.
And up on a branch, it sat, eyeing me cheekily, and continued to masticate the fruits of my labours.
It's important to take time out once in a while to enjoy the fruits of one's labours, smell the roses and enjoy.
I have cared for women miscarrying, and women whose labours have been induced, for all their pain is immeasurable.
Despite the subsequent labours of his brother Peter on his behalf, his reputation never fully recovered from this mischance.
Forceps are indicated in all labours which are difficult or impossible to complete, from misproportion between the head and pelvis.
Should they not sit back and retire and let the young guns do the business, enjoying the fruits of their labours and play golf for fun again?
Reviewing my labours over a cup of steaming hot coffee I couldn't help but think it had all been too easy.
Her heroic labours and vigilant eye saved me from more than mere typographical errors.
It portrays pastoral scenes such as the labours of the months, wildlife, and putti fishing.
But for the labours of a statesman all the sound and fury of the swordsman on the field of battle would in the end signify nothing.
Sadly he did not have much time to enjoy the fruits of his labours as death intervened.
Research shows it's less helpful in normal labours and can lead to unnecessary interventions.
Such as he saw at work were noticeably inferior in physique to the few gaily dressed managers and forewomen who were directing their labours.
We give thanks for those whose gifts and labours have helped rebuild this holy place and to make it again an image of the glory of heaven.
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Mr combe bade fair to be the only man who was to be benefited by the labours of Burke.
He had undergone the labours of a titan for twelve eventful and formative years.
But when Augeas heard that this was one of the labours imposed by Eurystheus, he refused the promised guerdon.
He had eased his uncle's labours by crushing the wasp, and averted his aunt's displeasure by obliterating the blowfly.
When he had completed his many years' labours he returned to the neighbourhood of the bodhi tree in north India.
The builders of that breastwork were before my eyes, and apparently just resting from their labours.
We could not afford to let the carcajou make a meal of him, as in our log-hauling and other labours he was of great service to us.
But neither the life of a cenobite, nor the labours of a missionary could satisfy the aspirations of his soul after perfection.
The labours of the twenty prime years of his manhood have been copiously bewailed.
Sire and sons returned from the cemetery invigorated for their dally labours.
The fable of the labours of Hercules is the type of all human doing and success.
His labours were chiefly in the field of descriptive geometry, with its application to the arts and mechanical engineering.
Sacred and inspired divinity, the Sabaoth and port of all men's labours and peregrinations.
Tell him also that if he had paid me a little better for my labours, I would not have forsaken him.
At home in his own island, he labours himself like a slave, and makes his people labour like a slave-driver.
Nor do I remember me of any fee or honorarium received from him on account of these my labours, except the compotations aforesaid.
But soon the little fish appear, and then his labours are increased a hundredfold.
The latter afterwards became a noted builder and improver of lifeboats, and was well and deservedly rewarded for his labours.
In the mean time the industrious and irreclaimable hours continued their labours.
The Landes have thus been opened to the persevering labours of the cultivator.
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