1 But like Czar Peter content to toil in the shipyards of foreign cities, Queequeg disdained no seeming ignominy, if thereby he might happily gain the power of enlightening his untutored countrymen.
2 But, in general, they toil with their jack-knives alone; and, with that almost omnipotent tool of the sailor, they will turn you out anything you please, in the way of a mariner's fancy.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 57. Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in She... 3 To insure the greatest efficiency in the dart, the harpooneers of this world must start to their feet from out of idleness, and not from out of toil.
4 Jollily he, aloft there, wheels through toil and trouble; and so, alow here, does jolly Stubb.
5 Be it said, that in this vocation of whaling, sinecures are unknown; dignity and danger go hand in hand; till you get to be Captain, the higher you rise the harder you toil.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 110. Queequeg in His Coffin. 6 Silent, slow, and solemn; bowing over still further his chronically broken back, he toiled away, as if toil were life itself, and the heavy beating of his hammer the heavy beating of his heart.
7 Thus having known himself for the master of things, a man could go back to his toil and live upon the memory all his days.
8 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.
9 And each day the struggle becomes fiercer, the pace more cruel; each day you have to toil a little harder, and feel the iron hand of circumstance close upon you a little tighter.
10 And then the editor wanted to know upon what ground Dr. Schliemann asserted that it might be possible for a society to exist upon an hour's toil by each of its members.
11 His person, though muscular, was rather attenuated than full; but every nerve and muscle appeared strung and indurated by unremitted exposure and toil.
12 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.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 14 13 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 Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 14 14 In short, everything wore rather the appearance of a day of pleasure, than of an hour stolen from the dangers and toil of a bloody and vindictive warfare.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 15 15 Heyward soon pressed to the side of their guide, eager to catch an early glimpse of those enemies he had pursued with so much toil and anxiety.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 21