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Definition of Toiled
1. toil [v] - See also: toil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toiled
Literary usage of Toiled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers by Thomas Humphry Ward (1917)
"... Ye who have toiled uphill to reach the haunt Of other men who lived in other
days, Whether the ruins of a citadel Raised on the summit ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"He seems to have been among the last Franciscans who toiled in Canada during the
Colonial period. In 1888 the Very Rev. Frederic De Ghy- velde, ..."
3. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"... and commending his cavalry and all other cavalry to the special care of Eblis,
toiled on to resume touch with the rest of the division. ..."
4. The South in the Building of the Nation: A History of the Southern States by Walter Lynwood Fleming (1909)
"With supreme devotion to the duties of the hour, he toiled so incessantly that
his health became impaired, and he sought restoration in Virginia but in vain ..."
5. Life and Letters of Edwin Lawrence Godkin by Edwin Lawrence Godkin (1907)
"He apparently toiled not so much for himself as for a leader of a higher type
than himself. I am far from pretending that the politics were all pure and the ..."
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