Word: arduous
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...struggle is an arduous one, for as the Harries' old seamstress tells Pam, "It is like royalty in England, he will not think of marrying a commoner." "But what is royalty in this country?" asks Pam. "Is it just having a lot of money...
...meeting voted the article down. The voters had less to say about a subsequent proposal to grant the town police force a forty-hour week. Defeat came quickly amid arguments such as "the men have civil service status and security" and "after all, the work isn't particularly arduous...
...Mahatma Gandhi who gave up Hinduism for the high life of New Delhi, later moved on to Greece, Turkey and Iran, where she founded a national opera and ballet company, turned up in Jericho. Weighing over 200 pounds, and nursing a broken left leg, she was engaged in an arduous literary task: "I'm translating the Koran into English, annotating it marginally. I shall make the Koran comprehensible to every intelligent person who can read English...
...love nobody, and Lavinia, whom nobody can love, share a common bond of isolation, and will be far happier together than apart. Celia Coplestone comes to the specialist, too, but with a sense of sin and a capacity for humility and atonement: for her, salvation, no matter how arduous, will be necessary. The play ends two years later with another cocktail party, showing the Chamberlaynes adjusted and telling of Celia's death by crucifixion while working among heathen savages...
Nowadays, U.S. Trappists sleep on boards covered with straw mattresses, follow an iron waking schedule of hard labor, utter silence, arduous prayer and slim rations that begins at 2 a.m. and ends...