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labouring

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1. labouring - Noun

2. labouring - Verb

3. labouring - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

doing arduous or unpleasant work

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Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed. William Cobbett

If the community wish to have the benefit of more knowledge and intelligence in the labouring classes, it must dispense it at the public charge. Jean-Baptiste Say

The innocent moon, that nothing does but shine, Moves all the labouring surges of the world. Francis Thompson

It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up hating each other. So I just thought they needed telling really, in case they were labouring under the apprehension that they were still friends. Peter Hook

God loves an idle rainbow, Not less than labouring seas. Ralph Hodgson

What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best. John Lancaster Spalding

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