1 He was delighted at the unexpected rapidity of his pupil's progress, but could not abandon the edifice of argument he had laboriously constructed.
2 Tipsy and perspiring, with dim eyes and wide-open mouths, they were all laboriously singing some song or other.
3 Zaletaev, brought out with effort: "ke-e-e-e," he drawled, laboriously pursing his lips, "le-trip-ta-la-de-bu-de-ba, e de-tra-va-ga-la" he sang.
4 No," he murmured, "none of my enemies would have waited so patiently and laboriously for so long a space of time, that they might now come and crush me with this secret.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 72. Madame de Saint-Meran. 5 No, it is not existence, then, that I regret, but the ruin of projects so slowly carried out, so laboriously framed.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 90. The Meeting. 6 Slowly, laboriously, she heaved herself over and pulled her heavy skirts up to her thighs.
7 Go with you to the funeral, she said laboriously.
8 Yes, there it lay, the fruit of all their struggles, levelled to its foundations, the stones they had broken and carried so laboriously scattered all around.
9 He must, rather laboriously, tell them the story of the pictures at which the unknown guest had been looking when Giles came in.
10 Out of these precepts he was laboriously constructing a harmonious whole, which he desired to present to souls.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. 11 He laboriously dragged a table and the old arm-chair to the fireside, and placed upon the table a pen, some ink and some paper.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUC... 12 Beyond the river he saw a goods train winding out of Kingsbridge Station, like a worm with a fiery head winding through the darkness, obstinately and laboriously.
13 She was cynical about the joys of a simple laborious life.
14 The ship's company being reduced to but a handful, the captain called upon the Islanders to assist him in the laborious business of heaving down the ship to stop the leak.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story. 15 For that business is an exceedingly laborious one; is not very soon completed; and requires all hands to set about it.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 66. The Shark Massacre.