1 There was nothing especially arduous in this round of religious obligations; but it stood for a fraction of that great bulk of boredom which loomed across her path.
2 He was alone, if the solitary sentinel who paced the mound be excepted; for the artillerists had hastened also to profit by the temporary suspension of their arduous duties.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 15 3 Here the struggle was protracted, arduous and seemingly of doubtful issue; the Delawares, though none of them fell, beginning to bleed freely, in consequence of the disadvantage at which they were held.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 32 4 The materials at present within my command hardly appeared adequate to so arduous an undertaking, but I doubted not that I should ultimately succeed.
5 My dear guardian, with the assistance of Miss Prism, has the arduous task of looking after me.
6 Certainly, these powerful reveries have their moral utility, and by these arduous paths one approaches to ideal perfection.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT 7 For it is no less arduous and dangerous to attempt to free a people disposed to live in servitude, than to enslave a people who desire to live free.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII. 8 But now, he turned against the stream in which he had drifted so short a while before, and began swimming arduously back against the current.
9 They were singing discordantly, arduously, and with great effort, evidently not because they wished to sing, but because they wanted to show they were drunk and on a spree.