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Sentence Examples Her working hours increase, her pay is cut, and the conditions under which she must toil become increasingly arduous. I gave my pony to a native and began to toil up the hillside with the infantry. The women toil in the broiling sun, backs bent, feet bare, working for hours at a stretch with a mattock, for most the only tool for every job. She is the sort of one-day-maybe-me dream that inspires the merely very rich to toil and scheme to become mega rich. Tirelessly and in almost complete obscurity, they toil to clean up the environment. They toil long hours in appalling conditions in machine shops and restaurants. This is a straightforward, unpretentious musical comedy about five cleaning women who toil night after night in a Calgary office building. After all, it's a complete waste to struggle and toil in order to accumulate possessions that you will have no use for in death. You are at the mercy of Mother Nature and toil long, hard hours in the knowledge that you could earn more working in a supermarket. The expedition continued to toil north, and continued to leak men, as deserters wilier than Collins slipped away night after night. I strap everything to my pack, and toil my way up the last three miles in my soggy snowboard boots. All that effort, toil and rhetoric is finished and now winners and losers have to face the results. Churchill responded by exhorting them to fight on the beaches and promised them only blood, tears, toil and sweat. But local firms provided plants and materials, and after a fortnight's toil the job was done. But any music fan should enjoy seeing the blood, sweat and toil that goes into making the end product we all buy. Over the summer months of toil and voluntary effort it will yet again become apparent who has earned the right to have their say. The dirt and grime of industrial toil has been largely replaced by white-collar jobs. The smithy, with its anvil, fire and bellows, was a place of relentless toil and sweat. Water power was the first to raise hopes that mankind might be eased from severe toil by the benignant help of Nature. Supposing a landowner exploits his tenants and mulcts them of the fruit of their toil by appropriating it to his own use. Show More Sentences My hands are so soft and tender from avoidance of manual toil that I could be a spokesmodel for overpriced emollients. They have paid no dues, done no time, served no apprenticeship of lonely toil on pop's equivalent of the handloom. Most Nicaraguans who have work still toil as migrants, following crops and working only during the harvest period. The Persian's celestial beauty must be maintained with the earthly toil of combing and brushing on an almost daily basis. The Ossete mountaineers and the villagers of Mtiuleti were forced to toil without payment. Indeed, many older Argentines now believe they'll have to toil on into their sunset years. Meanwhile, droves of identical workers toil in vast underground turbine halls, keeping the elite in their poncy satin pantaloons. Groton Labs isn't some academic hothouse where a few eggheads are allowed to toil fruitlessly forever. Third world workers want to toil in sweatshops, recognizing that it improves their prospects. It was always the sorest toil and the clattiest jobs they would set the wee one to do. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men. Even hardened journalists and academics, long resigned to their toil among the ignorant, have recoiled before the feeble-mindedness of the man. Which on the strength of this compilation of material drawn from a decade of honest toil is hard to fathom. She decides to surrender, to give up the stage and move to California where she will toil with her comrades on a commune in Anaheim. Every year, when the scorching sun divests them of water for months on end, the men turn to pimping rather than toil in the wooden fields. So there he lay asleep, the steadfast goodly Odysseus, fordone with toil and drowsiness. At the same time, the ordinary workers were enjoined to toil even harder and sacrifice ever more in the name of national development. It wasn't the hours of toil, sweat and petrol clearing the footpath which concerned me, but the wasted wheat. Not sparing his own health, his working day lasted twelve to fourteen hours, and he continued to toil into the small hours of the night. In India, some kids are forced to toil in cotton fields while others work their fingers to the bone weaving silk. Show More Sentences But would these sprightly veterans have been better advised to avoid the stresses and strains of full-time toil in old age? While the forces sweat and toil in the heat and sandstorms of the desert, it is good for them to know things back home are going well. Why do we continue to toil away so very eagerly at creating our own unhappiness? He had a brief taste of this ill-rewarded toil as a teenager before being recruited to the Liga youth system as a 16-year-old. The primary concern in his pictures is not with scenery but with the bone-aching toil of the agrarian poor. We were greeted with a small fortune in wine and cheese and a day's toil in homemade bakery. This document has been designed to bestow some dignity on those who toil thanklessly in the vineyards of art. Doubtless mater and pater sent this horny-handed son of toil to the local comp followed by the polytechnic. Shao's toil and moil was rather rewarding, and five years after his arrival, in 1852, he successfully launched his shop with a food-processing workshop at another location. You don't have to slave and toil to earn all of life's gratifications. Surely, in a drought year, it makes economic sense for him to sell water which is at a great premium, than toil growing paddy that would fetch him unremunerative prices! I am privileged to have escaped the monotonous toil of endless physical labour and to have experienced a soft life in which I have been able to indulge my passion for history. Now, having long since left behind the toil of the sea, he hefted flasks of whiskey instead of halyards, ladled grog instead of tar, or polished glass instead of brass. Nevertheless, the joy of knowing that those bookshelves were the result of your own toil and labour can be beyond measure, even if they are a bit wonky. Days are drenched in the strong scent of cigarette smoke, all-purpose soap, cow manure, eucalyptus leaf, espresso coffee, and the bouquet of our toil and sweat. Curving stone walls crisscrossed the landscapes, testifying to centuries of toil and sweat by inhabitants, creating soft, green pastures for livestock. This has given them an absolution from political responsibility and toil. While the transition from nameless minor leaguer to major league leader seemed to happen overnight, he knows it is at least partially a product of his many years of toil. After six and a half years of toil and sweat, I was finally done! In the Cours Saleya markets, those florists who toil by night to create the float of the year spend their days vying for trade over the rest of their blooms. Show More Sentences This canine workaholic was originally conceived to toil the livelong day in blazing heat or frigid cold in Australia's back of beyond, also known as the outback. The frugal food they had at home were put in front of them through the sweat and toil of their aged mother, Antoniammal, who did chores in a few households in their locality. The former slaves of Saint Domingue and Guadeloupe abandoned plantation toil whenever they could, instead devoting themselves to subsistence cultivation. In the years 1914-18, women flooded into the workplace to take on the toil of men conscripted to fight. Middle England still exists, life goes on in the shires as it has for many centuries, people still work hard, toil the land and protect the countryside. Wages for common labor and almost everything else were triflingly small, the hours of toil were long, and the supply of men for every demand was great. Yet the most we do is nod along, only to return to the unending toil of making our neighbor into our enemy. But it's also draggy and slow, the product of toil and perfectionism over spontaneity and enthusiasm that seems to insinuate more than it actually says. In this exceptionally picturesque region, beauty and grinding toil continue to coexist, very much as described in John Steinbeck's novels, notably The Grapes of Wrath. Here we are weary and toil worn, but yonder is the land of rest where the sweat of labour shall no more bedew the workers brow, and fatigue shall be forever banished. There is little point in having workers toil long and hard to sweep the debris into neat piles, which are then left to withstand the ravages of wind, rain and speeding wheels. Those of us who toil every day at the Headquarters of the United Nations have become a little exasperated at seeing our institutional obituaries in the press. My full-time career on the Bolton Evening News ended at the week-end when I retired after nearly 39 years of honest toil at the coalface of provincial journalism. What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? He had loved too well to imagine himself a glorious racehorse, and now he was condemned to toil without honour like a costermonger's donkey. In such a state, people fear death, and lack both the things necessary to commodious living, and the hope of being able to toil to obtain them. Jacob with the patriarchs through all his own Life's space the gladdest times of Christ foresang By words, act, virtue, toil. In the mines, men toil in humidity that is almost suffocating. The genius of the Italians wrought by solid toil what the myth-making imagination of the Germans had projected in a poem. The primordial wants have been satisfied only by incessive toil, at least for most people. Show More Sentences The poet discovers this old son of toil to be a leech-gatherer who supplied medics of the time with the creatures essential to their leechcraft. After all the years of toil, after all the years spent building their fan club the Wolfcubs, success happened quickly. Morris' vision of the future socialist society was centred around his concept of useful work as opposed to useless toil and the redemption of human labour. But what about those who toil in their basements and garages all year perfecting double-and single-reed calls for us to wrench on and show off to our buddies each season? In Germany also the kobolds are rather troublesome than otherwise, to the miners, taking pleasure in frustrating their objects, and rendering their toil unfruitful. Ben Stokes and Stuart Broad were made to toil following some aggressive hitting, until Broad dismissed Trent Boult to give him his 13th five-wicket haul in Test cricket. The library was essential in facilitating a level of educational achievement that allowed some miners and their children to escape the toil of mine work. Examples from Classical Literature Ah, I do not wonder you love this morning hour, when beauty reigns supreme, before the toil and moil of the world has begun. If Eugene is not a success amid the toil and moil of business, he shines out pre-eminently on such occasions as these. Blame them not, if for a time their limbs forget their toil and moil and their hearts their pangs and sorrows. How patiently and unselfishly that toil was performed the history of Europe tells. In the farmyard the workers were preparing to depart for the night from their long day of toil. Alleviate the toil of the necessitous, but do not prevent their useful employment of time and means. The erroneous impression prevails among some that the pregnant wife should enure herself to toil and hardship. Life cannot be all serenity and peace to the pilgrims who toil upon its stormy way, its via dolorosa. Mainly it is long and weariful and has a dull little town at one end, and a home of toil at the other. Then it equally concerns them both to be painstaking and prodigal of toil in all their doings? Free shall the ship of Thorgils be from toil or harbourage in all ports of our land from henceforward. After a month of toil and suffering, ragged and emaciate he at midnight reached the settlement. But this position was rather a preeminence of toil and peril than of dignity and honour. Hence mankind are imbruted by excessive toil as well as by excessive sensuality and violence. The soil is hard, and the crop after the expenditure of much toil is often very scanty. But the shoulder was indignantly withdrawn and the hard-handed son of toil went to earth. Does landlordism give you control of the immortal souls of those that toil for you? In each generation, with toil and tears, we have had to earn our heritage again. One day, in the midst of her toil, there came a messenger from the corregidor of the city. It has been an apothegm these five thousand years, that toil sweetens the bread it earns. Show More Sentences The spring sculpin and the flabby, muddy flounder are the common rewards of the angler's toil. It is probable that he devotes more hours to his toil than his American congener. He had lugged it over the trail at the cost of infinite toil and weariness. To be sure, the wage was infinitesimal, while the toil was body-breaking soul-breaking. Their historians said that toil did not wear out his body or exhaust his energy. And why should men toil and moil when they had been the masters of the world? I have the greatest respect for honorable toil, but even more for callithump. Nor is it, as has been too often supposed, a cheerless life of toil and fatigue, but has many substantial and endearing charms. It asserts that we have the right to choice of our own work and to the reward of our own toil. Much to my surprise, the native Fijian is a man of leisure and not of toil. The result was that I was no longer reinvigorated by periods of open-air abstinence and healthy toil. The entente cordiale was turned into a caldron of toil and trouble. But the curiosity of a simian is as excessive as the toil of an ant. Will ignorance give respectability, or sweeten the toil of the husbandman? Now did it take a hundred years of patient toil to carve the sphynx? The toil and hardship of the journey had incapacitated the others. I have not had a moment to spare from incessant toil since the 8th. On week days she would toil with the stubbornness of an animal. She was glad to be employed because the daily round of toil in the store made the time of waiting seem less long and uninteresting. These things, of course, took time, and had to be fought for with toil and sweat of brain and heart, and with the life-blood poured out. Show More Sentences This is the final word of a ship's ended journey, the closing word of her toil and of her achievement. And what had John Barleycorn to do with such strenuous, Stoic toil of a lad just turned fifteen? Then followed the frugal breakfast, when her commoner toil for the milliner succeeded. The heart-breaking, conspiring, undermining toil of years approached fruition. Thus he was more inclined for manual toil like that of Thomas. Why, then, toil and moil for mere vanities that we must leave behind us? I have only reached this happy state after having for years suffered every possible kind of toil and danger. Month after month I toil on, opening oyster after oyster, but seldom finding a pearl. Through a world of toil and care she flitted with a dreamlike smile, and came hither to find a home among the lightsome hearts of Merry Mount. It was not a startling find, merely a low-pay placer where long hours of severe toil earned each man between fifteen and twenty dollars a day. The elastic, light step of an Indian was gone, and in its place he was compelled to toil his tardy way over the ground, inch by inch. Under cover of a flat rate structure, Republicans want to turn the federal income tax into a tax on the toil they rhapsodize on other days. And here was her boy going through it all over again, for himself, learning the dull religion of toil from one of its most fanatical priests. In his own spirit is enacted the agelong world-drama of toil. The bacteriologist's existence became a ceaseless round of toil. It was a great help to a person who had to toil all the week to be able to look forward to some such relaxation as this on Saturday nights. I could see no reason why I should, at the end of each week, pour the reward of my toil into the purse of my master. Watch them wobble and go to pieces, and their members become slaves driven to toil by empty stomachs and the law of the land. Phoebe wondered whose care and toil it could have been that had planted these vegetables, and kept the soil so clean and orderly. He took the kerchief from his neck, wiped his temples as if the sweat of honest toil were there, and calmly tied it on again. Show More Sentences And under this milder toil, where his companions nevertheless grew weary, Daylight recuperated and rested up. From the chimneys of the farmhouses thin ascensions of blue smoke signaled preparations for a day's peaceful toil. He failed to see the horny-handed sons of toil enjoying grand pianos or riding in automobiles. Vere had often seen the divers in the Bay of Naples at their curious toil. But there is nothing young in this sedulous suppression of toil. In this way Vigneau contrived to fire several batches, and lived for the first year on bread that was hardly won by the toil of his household. Then began the rarely lightened toil of the day among the village population. Very many years of toil had taken the elasticity out of step and voice. From dawn until dusk, the villagers plant rubber trees and harvest the latex, and the reward for the toil is cash from sales of processed rubber. With all their toil, they had not yet come to the girdle of Enceladus. She also is dressed with great neatness, and her white, delicate hands betray very little acquaintance with servile toil. Anna is sent to toil on a German farm run by unkind relatives while Lotte enjoys a pampered existence in Holland. After much toil, he reached the summit of a lofty cliff, but it was only to behold gigantic peaks rising all around, and towering far into the snowy regions of the atmosphere. The natives died of starvation by the million, while their rulers robbed them of the fruits of their toil and expended it on magnificent pageants and mumbo-jumbo fooleries. But one of the great pleasures of life after a hard day's toil at the computer screen is a couple of pints of real ale in the local pub, washing down some scratchings. One would bear much for the sake of sparing him toil or sorrow. The uniform brownness of the harrowed field glowed with a rosy tinge, as though the powdered clods had sweated out in minute pearls of blood the toil of uncounted ploughmen. They went out of the pavilion hand in hand, and on through the sunshine they strolled, swinging hands gaily, reacting exuberantly from the week of deadening toil. Then down from the throne, hand in hand, came the Queen and Violet, and till the moon sank did the Fairies toil, to weave a wreath of the fairest flowers. Unless his devoted toil was to be wasted for ever, his successor must have some knowledge of Arabic, but I had studied Oriental languages at the Armenian Convent. Show More Sentences Bleak and black hills lay on every side of them, compensating in some degree for the additional toil of the march by the sense of security they imparted. All were precisely in the same condition as before they made themselves so ridiculous by their haste to toil, to enjoy, to accumulate gold, and to become wise. Heyward assisted the sisters to descend, and in a few minutes they were all far down a mountain whose sides they had climbed with so much toil and pain. The joints of the legs that bear me up are not so adequate as they once were, when, in wild nights and days of toil and frolic, I strained and snapped and ruptured them. Whilst the prince was settling down to this second year of toil and privation, the ship made a rapid voyage and arrived safely at the Ebony Island. They were both shadows, and this was the unending limbo of toil. When he refused to ease down his pace and bleated about freedom of contract, independent Americanism, and the dignity of toil, they proceeded to spoil his pace-making ability. The moment that the peasant forsakes his life of toil pure and simple for the leisured existence of the landowning classes, he becomes intolerable. Being quite dispirited with toil, and wholly overcome by grief and dispair, I lay down between two ridges, and heartily wished I might there end my days. He would stand up, with open eyes, and he would struggle and toil and learn until, with eyes unblinded and tongue untied, he could share with her his visioned wealth. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of toil? Words that rhyme with toil What is the past tense of toil? What is the plural of toil? What is the adverb for toil? What is the adjective for toil? What is the noun for toil? Translations for toil Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words tohunga to his to her feet to help to have togs Toil TOIL toile toiled toiler toilers 4-letter Words Starting With t to toi