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toiling

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1. toiling - Noun

2. toiling - Verb

4. toiling - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Toil

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling for himself, to gather competence or wealth. The expansion of New France was the achievement of a gigantic ambition striving to grasp a continent. It was a vain attempt. Francis Parkman

Sultan Aladdin... had few illusions about his own people: amiable, well-favoured, courteous, they loved rest better than industry... their function was to remind the toiling Chinese, Indians and British of the ultimate vanity of labour. Anthony Burgess

Suppose Sisyphus to have been acquitted his need of forever toiling up his hill in Hell, would he have made the last journey in joy? Or would mere fatigue have extinguished all other emotion, as a torch extinguished in a sconce? Avram Davidson

The house was not built by its owner. It was erected, decorated, and furnished by innumerable workers - in the timber yard, the brick field, and the workshop, toiling for dear life at a minimum wage. Peter Kropotkin

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you. Phillips Brooks

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