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Definition of Be at pains
1. Verb. Try very hard to do something.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Be At Pains
Literary usage of Be at pains
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses by Thomas Hardy (1917)
"... Song) WHY be at pains that I should know You sought not me ? Do breezes, then,
make features glow So rosily ? Come, the lit port is at our back, ..."
2. Publications of the Scottish History Society by Scottish History Society (1904)
"If you won't be at pains about it, we shall be at the trouble and expense of ...
be at pains about them and let the holes for them which I beg you '1 make ..."
3. Letters of John Cockburn of Ormistoun to His Gardener, 1727-1744 by John Cockburn (1904)
"If you won't be at pains about it, we shall be at the trouble and expense of ...
be at pains about them and let the holes for them which I beg you '1 make ..."
4. The Whole Works of the Late Reverend and Learned Mr. Thomas Boston, Minister by Thomas Boston (1851)
"Lastly, How will ye answer it, that ye are at BO great pains for the cisterns,
and will not be at pains to go to the fountain ? Men refuse not to labour, ..."
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