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Laboured

adjective
1.
Lacking natural ease.  Synonyms: labored, strained.
2.
Requiring or showing effort.  Synonyms: heavy, labored.  "The subject made for labored reading"



Labour

verb
1.
Work hard.  Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, moil, toil, travail.  "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
2.
Strive and make an effort to reach a goal.  Synonyms: drive, labor, push, tug.  "We have to push a little to make the deadline!" , "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis"
3.
Undergo the efforts of childbirth.  Synonym: labor.



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"Laboured" Quotes from Famous Books



... laboured so hard in opening up his mine on the shore of Island Lake, he little thought in what manner it would one day be used. He had toiled through long weary months, working with pick and shovel, until he had drifted ...
— Jess of the Rebel Trail • H. A. Cody

... regard to a life to come, for that was what I was now to think about, my opinion, if it could be called such, laboured under confusion and inconsistency. Could anything have made me more miserable than another, it would have been the doubt of it; but from this I have ever been exempt, feeling assured, that were there none, our minds would no more have been created capable of entertaining ...
— Confessions of an Etonian • I. E. M.

... should have aimed from the first, namely, run the sledge across the gap and work from it. We managed to do this, our fingers constantly numbed. Wilson held on to the anchored trace whilst the rest of us laboured at the leader end. The leading rope was very small and I was fearful of its breaking, so Meares was lowered down a foot or two to secure the Alpine rope to the leading end of the trace; this done, the work of rescue proceeded in better order. Two by two ...
— The Worst Journey in the World, Volumes 1 and 2 - Antarctic 1910-1913 • Apsley Cherry-Garrard

... having thus been thoroughly established as a fact in celestial architecture, each generation of astronomers has laboured to find out more and more of its marvellous features. In the frontispiece (Plate I.) we have a view of the planet as seen at the Harvard College Observatory, U.S.A., between July 28th and October 20th, 1872. It has been drawn by the skilful astronomer and artist—Mr. ...
— The Story of the Heavens • Robert Stawell Ball

... to look fairly out on the gale. It was dark—so dark that they could scarcely see as far as the foremast. Around, the sea was white with foam; the wind blew so fiercely that they could scarcely hear each other's voices, even when they shouted, and the steamer laboured heavily against the fast rising sea. Here Mr. Hardy joined them, and for some little time clung there, watching the increasing fury of the gale; then, drenched and almost confused by the strife of winds and water that they had been watching, they made their way, with great difficulty, ...
— Out on the Pampas - The Young Settlers • G. A. Henty


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