Literary notes about Laborious (AI summary)
Writers employ the term "laborious" to evoke a sense of extended effort and persistent toil, whether referring to a physical journey or a mental task. It can describe the slow, demanding progress of a vehicle or a lengthy trek across a harsh landscape [1, 2, 3], while also characterizing exhaustive scholarly work or creative endeavors that take considerable time and care [4, 5, 6]. In some instances, its use imbues the action with dignity—as though the very difficulty of the task validates its importance—while in others, it paints a picture of drudgery and sheer exhaustion [7, 8, 9]. This multifaceted application of "laborious" thus serves to highlight both the burdens and the valor inherent in human effort [10, 11].
- It was after twelve o'clock when this laborious vehicle dropped him at old Catherine's.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton - Before him stretched the long, laborious road, dry, empty, and white.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge - A laborious walk in the flaming sun brought us to the foot of the great Pyramid of Cheops.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain - This is the power of truth; its conquest is slow and laborious, but if once the victory be gained it can never be wrested back again.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer - p. 69-206,) whose laborious accuracy may sometimes fatigue a superficial reader.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - I found that I could not compose a female without again devoting several months to profound study and laborious disquisition.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - You see that your work is not very laborious, but your vigilance must be great in proportion.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Where there is such infinite and laborious potency there is room for every hope.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - With twelve black ships he reach'd Percope's strand, Thence took the long laborious march by land.
— from The Iliad by Homer - Now a skiff would dart away from one of them, and come fighting its laborious way across the desert of water.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain - That the life I had since led was laborious enough to kill an animal of ten times my strength.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift
