Synonyms

1. labor

Sentence Examples

1. A brace of cyclists heading for La Corona draws my attention and I rest the box on the edge of the boot and watch them labour up the long rise.
2. When the domestic chores were done the women, protected from the wind and the sun by high-domed hats secured with scarves tied tightly beneath their chins, would go and labour alongside their men, planting, weeding, harvesting and partaking in the view.
3. I say, then, that in these and other respects our gallant Don Quixote is worthy of everlasting and notable praise, nor should it be withheld even from me for the labour and pains spent in searching for the conclusion of this delightful history though I know well that if Heaven, chance and good fortune had not helped me, the world would have remained deprived of an entertainment and pleasure that for a couple of hours or so may well occupy him who shall read it attentively.
4. Neither forsooth on the contrary, thou dost ask of me, so far as I understand, to strive and labour to rob thee of honour and life, and to rob myself of them at the same time for if I take away thy honour it is plain I take away thy life, as a man without honour is worse than dead and being the instrument, as thou wilt have it so, of so much wrong to thee, shall not I, too, be left without honour, and consequently without life?
5. In that blessed age all things were in common to win the daily food no labour was required of any save to stretch forth his hand and gather it from the sturdy oaks that stood generously inviting him with their sweet ripe fruit.
6. After her failure at labour, they would lock her in a cell, and in this weather, the protection of stone walls from the wind seemed most attractive.
7. A view that might have made up for the arduous labour.
8. For I can tell thee, though composing it cost me some labour, I found none greater than the making of this Preface thou art now reading.
9. Thy constant labour let it be To earn thyself an honest name, For fooleries preserved in print Are perpetuity of shame.
10. And as the business of war and all that relates and belongs to it cannot be conducted without exceeding great sweat, toil, and exertion, it follows that those who make it their profession have undoubtedly more labour than those who in tranquil peace and quiet are engaged in praying to God to help the weak.